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Football
Two-Minute Drill: Inside the Ohio State Locker Room
By Brandon Castel

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Luke Fickell finally had a chance to smile after his team’s 37-17 win over Colorado Saturday.

The game wasn’t really even that close.

The Buffaloes got a late touchdown and Ohio State left the ball sitting at their opponent’s one-yard line as the clock ran out.

We take you inside the postgame locker room.

Braxton’s First Start

• Braxton said he was confident coming into his first start and felt good about the team’s performance.

• Fickell confirmed the obvious after the game, saying that Braxton is the team’s quarterback now.

• Jordan Hall said he told Braxton "this is your huddle, take control.”

• Zach Boren said he told Braxton this week to take control and be confident. It's his team now.

• Braxton said it meant a lot for the veterans to tell him it was his huddle. Said it gave him a lot of confidence.

• The coaches told Braxton to work on his sliding after some of the hits he took.

• Offensive coordinator Jim Bollman said running Braxton 14 times in a half “won’t be the plan the rest of the year."

Fickell’s Comments

• Fickell said their No. 1 thing going into this game was that special teams had to make plays.

• The next thing they wanted to do was have poise on defense and tackle better.

• The third most important thing was to run the football with success and lastly to play with some emotion.

Offensive Updates

• Freshman WR Devin Smith said he thought he made the catch along the sideline, but it was ruled incomplete.

• Fickell said he thought about challenging it, but decided to call a timeout instead and not waste the official challenge.

• Smith said his favorite catch of the day was the fade in the left corner of the end zone.

• Smith said he and Braxton developed chemistry while attending an OSU camp during summer before their senior years of high school.

• Jordan Hall was a little salty over not scoring on the kick return. Said he was glad the offense punched it in the end zone.

• Hall said he thinks the offense will only be more explosive when Boom Herron returns.

• Left guard Jack Mewhort said he is awe of some of things Jordan Hall can do.

Defensive Updates

• Christian Bryant said he found out Tuesday he would be starting.

• Travis Howard said he got a piece of the first TD, but not enough to break it up. Said he just misjudged the ball and jumped too early.

• Howard said they knew Colorado was going to spread them out, so they wanted more speed on the field.

• When the Buckeyes went to dime, Bryant moved to Star and Orhian Johnson came back on the field at safety.

Game Story
Game Notes

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