Ohio State receiver Jeremiah Smith outruns the Grambling State protection to attain a landing throughout the first half of an NCAA school soccer sport, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
COLUMBUS — They might have sung Carmen Ohio at halftime. Maybe earlier.
Ohio State’s 70-0 win towards Grambling on Saturday was over lengthy earlier than it was over.
Talent received out. No. 1 Ohio State had a lot, rather more of it than Grambling, an FCS college taking up one of many largest of the large boys in school soccer.
“Their team played hard in this game but they were outmatched talent-wise. That’s for sure,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day mentioned.
Ohio State scored touchdowns on 5 of its first half possessions to take a 35-0 halftime lead. And the one time it didn’t Grambling intercepted a move on the 1-yard line.
Then within the second half it scored 35 extra factors with back-ups getting many of the taking part in time.
Quarterback Julian Sayin accomplished his first 16 passes and was 18 of 19 for 306 yards to guide an OSU offense which rolled up 651 yards of complete offense.
Freshman Bo Jackson led Ohio State’s working backs with 9 carries for 108 yards, all within the second half, and scored a landing.
Jeremiah Smith caught 5 passes for 119 yards and two touchdowns. Carnell Tate, Will Kacmarek and Jelani Thurman additionally had landing catches.
Ohio State entered the sport as a greater than 50-point favourite however stayed centered on the duty at hand.
Smith mentioned Ohio State’s mindset was “Just go out and dominate.”
“Don’t play down to your competition. If we go out there and play down to their competition that’s when they make it a game,” he mentioned.
Defensive finish Caden Curry mentioned the Buckeyes’ perspective was “just doing our jobs.”
Day mentioned he noticed that form of focus in observe main as much as the sport.
“I thought our 48 hours leading up to the game was pretty business like. But you have to put it on the field,” he mentioned.
The avalanche of factors began with a 6-play, 83-yard drive that ended with a 47-yard landing move from Sayin to Kacmarek with 12:39 left within the first quarter for a 7-0 lead.
The lead grew to 14-0 the following time OSU had the ball when Sayin linked with Smith for an 87-yard landing move.
Tate’s 17-yard landing catch made it 21-0 with 4 minutes left within the first quarter.
Smith’s second landing catch, which got here on Sayin’s fourth TD move, put Ohio State up 28-0 with 11:38 left within the first half.
Tyrell Raby’s interception on the aim line on the Buckeyes’ subsequent possession was the one time within the first half Grambling stopped OSU’S offense.
C.J. Donaldson’s 2-yard run for a landing ended an 8-play, 62-yard drive and gave OSU a 35-0 halftime lead.
In the second half, freshman linebacker Riley Pettijohn had a 23-yard fumble restoration for a landing, Jackson scored on an 11-yard run, Isaiah West ran 12 yards for a landing, Thurman caught a 4-yard landing move from Lincoln Kienholz and Samuel Jackson had a 1-yard landing run within the sport’s ultimate minute.
“Riley Pettijohn seemed to pop for sure. That was a big play. I thought Bo and Isaiah both ran hard. It was good to see them break tackles and get some positive runs,” Day mentioned.
“It was good to get some of our depth in there. Sometimes when you put depth in you expect a significant dropoff but that didn’t happen,” he mentioned.
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