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It’s lastly right here. Arch Manning begins his tenure as Texas’ beginning quarterback towards defending nationwide champion Ohio State.
Ohio State leads 7-0 within the second quarter on a CJ Donaldson 1-yard TD run. Comply with all our protection from our consultants at The Athletic under.
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Matt Patricia’s Ohio State protection is doing every part it may to maintain Arch Manning within the pocket and power him to undergo his reads. Safeties preserve enjoying excessive, solely leaving brief passes out there. Manning has been extraordinarily flustered. He bought one deep try off, nevertheless it was incomplete into double protection.
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Q2 5:05 – Ohio State 7, Texas 0
Texas’ offensive line is basically struggling proper now, making issues worse for Arch Manning. The Texas quarterback can’t scramble out of that third-down stress and will get introduced down by Arvell Reese.
One other Texas drive stalls out close to midfield.
Texas must get the operating recreation happening this drive. A lot of Steve Sarkisian’s offense thrives off the run recreation by way of the play motion move. That will give Arch Manning some respiration room.
Q2 6:35 – Ohio State 7, Texas 0
Arch Manning makes use of his legs to arrange a second-and-1 that’s simply transformed, however he badly misses one other downfield throw in his subsequent move try.
However he responds with a brief completion to Ryan Wingo on second down and scrambles for simply sufficient first-down yardage on third-and-3.
For all of the (extraordinarily legitimate) discuss of how a lot faculty soccer has modified, that was a throwback drive from Ohio State on its final posession.
The opening landing drive went for 13 performs, 80 yards and eight:01 of recreation clock.
Operating again C.J. Donaldson was an ignored large get for Ohio State, which needed to change TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins. He scored 30 TDs in three seasons at West Virginia and bought the Buckeyes' first of the season on a do-or-die 4th down. He is probably not as explosive as final yr's guys however he runs laborious between the tackles.
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Vouri, certainly one of Arch Manning’s sponsors, wasted no time getting a business in throughout this recreation. Perhaps not the timing they'd like proper after an Ohio State rating however attention-grabbing nonetheless on this period of CFB.
Texas got here into this recreation ranked No. 1 within the preseason for the primary time. The final time a workforce ranked No. 1 misplaced its first recreation? Miami was upset by No. 16 BYU 28-21 in 1990.
West Virginia switch C.J. Donaldson is displaying why the Buckeyes have been so desirous to go get him out of the portal, he's extraordinarily laborious to convey down. He had 22 yards dashing on that drive, however carried the pile on a couple of essential runs, then caps the drive with a 1-yard landing run.
Q2 8:57 – Ohio State 7, Texas 0
C.J. Donaldson has his first landing as a Buckeye!
An old-school energy run out of the I formation.
Ohio State takes the lead in entrance of a roaring Buckeyes crowd!
Q2 9:20 – Texas 0, Ohio State 0
C.J. Donaldson can’t get in from two yards out.
Fourth-and-goal Ohio State from the 1. Right here we go.
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Q2 9:41 – Texas 0, Ohio State 0
Ohio State is right down to the Texas 2-yard line, however Ryan Day doesn’t like what he sees in his workforce’s energy run formation and calls timeout.
A pivotal early third down looms…
Q2 11:40 – Texas 0, Ohio State 0
Again-to-back good runs from West Virginia switch C.J. Donaldson have the Buckeyes right down to the Texas 6, knocking on the door…
Texas’ protection hurting itself with penalties proper now. Ohio State’s within the purple zone for the primary time thanks to 2 Longhorn miscues, a facemask by Colin Simmons and a defensive holding penalty by Manny Muhammad.
Q2 12:35 – Texas 0, Ohio State 0
One other unhealthy penalty towards the Longhorns as Malik Muhammad will get known as for a blatant maintain on Jeremiah Smith. Ohio State is within the purple zone, at Texas’ 19-yard line.
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Q2 13:23 – Texas 0, Ohio State 0
Again-to-back downfield photographs to Jeremiah Smith and Brandon Inniss fall incomplete. The Buckeyes crowd needed a move interference on the play towards Smith — however Ohio State is bailed out on the following play by a silly facemask penalty from Longhorns star Colin Simmons.
Ohio State is on the Texas 29…
Q2 14:14 – Texas 0, Ohio State 0
Lastly some indicators of life from the Ohio State offense as a Julian Sayin move to Bennett Christian inches the Buckeyes into Texas territory.
Feels prefer it's gonna take a giant play downfield (or actually any play downfield) to get Arch Manning rolling. All three of his completions are fast little checkdowns/within the flat. Texas can attempt to set up the run all it desires within the meantime, however he would possibly simply have to air out a giant one to get him comfortable.
