Huskers QB Tommy Armstrong day-to-day with concussion

“It was good for us to go out there and show we could throw the ball downfield”.

Neither would Auburn beating Alabama or Ohio State downing MI, which would give the playoff committee a lot to think about.

The Buckeyes (8-1, 5-1 Big Ten, CFP No. 6) scored more points than Ohio State ever has against a top-10 team and handed the Cornhuskers (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten, CFP No. 10) their most lopsided loss since 2004.

COLUMBUS, OH- Following a pair of flat outings in their previous two games, Ohio State put everything together in a 62-3 beat down of visiting Nebraska Saturday evening at Ohio Stadium. Yes, but MI is beating teams by 40 every week and the loss at Penn State shows how the little things can be a team’s undoing. “This came out of the blue to me”. But he thankfully returned to the sideline in the third quarter in street clothes after he was checked out by a local hospital. It was the brightest moment of the night for Nebraska. It continued to be all Buckeyes with Barrett firing another touchdown pass and Hooker scoring on a 48-yard interception return, Ohio State’s second pick-six of the game.

Receiver Jordan Westerkamp, Armstrong’s longtime roommate, said Armstrong was doing well after what initially appeared to be a scary injury. Texas A&M falls from that spot thanks to its loss to Mississippi State, and there’s little chance Louisville will vault ahead of the Buckeyes. But they were just getting warmed up.

The rest of the half, and the rest of the game was more of the same.

The collective sighs of relief from Ohio Stadium could be heard from all over the state of Ohio on Saturday night. He wouldn’t have to. We had a couple good games early, then a couple stumbles in the middle. Well, things didn’t go as planned for Nebraska as Ohio State controlled the game from the start. His team had produced a figure that ostentatious just twice this season.

Any doubts Ohio State was a changed team, at least for one night, were dispelled when it turned a big 31-3 halftime lead into an even bigger lead in the second half. If Ohio State is going to be in the top four, they need to dominate on the line of scrimmage for the running game to get rolling, like they did a few years ago en route to a national championship. It seemed fitting, really; Nebraska never reached the end zone. “We’ll learn from it and get better”.

“J.T. played fantastic, and he was very sharp, spread the ball”, Meyer said.

The lead grew to 21-3 five plays into the second quarter when Mike Weber ran through a huge hole the left side of the offensive line had created to score on a 23-yard touchdown run.

A Cornhuskers defense that entered the weekend allowing an average of 16.9 first downs per contest (16th-best) allowed a staggering 34 of them, the most since the team allowed 35 of them in the 2013 season opener.

Riley said it was too early to determine Armstrong’s status for next week.

Ohio State rolled through the season’s first five games before an overtime win at Wisconsin, a road loss to Penn State and a tight win against Northwestern in its last three outings. Wisconsin (4-2 Big Ten) holds the tiebreaker over Nebraska (4-2) and plays Minnesota (4-2) in the finale.

Things got worse for the Huskers on the ensuing kickoff, when Tre Bryant chose to catch a kick that may have landed out of bounds at the 3, he returned it eight yards, but the Huskers were called for an illegal block on the return and were forced to start the drive at their own 5.

The Big Ten has four playoff-worthy candidates.