STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State is the great elixir for Ohio State. The Nittany Lions are good enough to make the Buckeyes feel as if they accomplished something by beating them, but never good enough to actually beat Ohio State.
Take the final two possessions of the game, which took 10:13 of game clock, included 20 plays and resulted in no points.
The first of those two drives ended with a goal-line stand by the Ohio State defense, stopping the Nittany Lions on four plays after a first-and-goal at the 3. The second was a clock-draining, soul-sucking march by the Buckeyes, led by their beleaguered offensive line and capped by a victory formation that secured not only a top-five win but a few weeks of peace for a program and coach facing more pressure than any in the country this season.
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