How Urban Meyer Spent Ohio State's Bye Week and Highlights from the Oklahoma Game

COLUMBUS, OH — No. 2 Ohio State has a bye this week. The Buckeyes will resume play Oct. 1 with a home game against Rutgers.

Ohio State enters its bye on a hot streak after pummeling No. 14 Oklahoma on the road 45-24. It was the latest in a career of impressive victories for Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer, who proves time and again, regardless of how much talent he loses to the NFL, his teams never skip a beat.

Quarterback J.T. Barrett was clinical against the Sooners’ defense, completing 14 of 20 passes for four touchdowns and no interceptions. He also ran for 74 yards. All four of those touchdowns went to receiver Noah Brown, with one of those scores being perhaps the catch of the year, as Brown pinned the football to his defender’s back as he fell into the end zone.

The Buckeyes’ defense held Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield to a subpar 17- of-32 performance for 226 yards. He threw two touchdowns but also threw two interceptions. Ohio State also dominated on the ground (291 rushing yards), led by Mike Weber (123 rushing yards) and Curtis Samuel (98 yards).

How Urban Meyer spent the bye week:

ICYMI: The Ohio State Marching Band performs a Stevie Wonder halftime show and Script Ohio in Oklahoma.

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