Urban Meyer and his Buckeyes got back to their winning ways with a 38-7 win over Army in Ohio Stadium Saturday.
Let's take a journey through the GIFs of the game. To view the GIFs, hover on desktop or touch on your mobile device.
Saturday started with pageantry as the United States Army Parachute Team – known as the Golden Knights – dropped into Ohio Stadium with the game ball. Not long after, two Blackhawk helicopters flew over the Shoe.
Here's video on the Golden Knights grand entrance. It was fantastic.
Ohio State wasted little time getting on the board in this one, as the Buckeyes took the opening kickoff and moved 75 yards in just eight plays for a touchdown. This 36-yard J.K. Dobbins run set OSU up in the red zone. He's ... uh ... going to be special.
Three plays later, J.T. Barrett punched it in from the five. 7-0, Buckeyes.
Ohio State's offense utilized RPOs to great success early against Army, getting the ball into the hands of playmakers like K.J. Hill.
Dobbins finished OSU's second drive with this 2-yarder on a pitch from Barrett. Two possessions, two touchdowns on drives of 75 and 94 yards for the Buckeyes.
Can we get a round of applause for Drue Chrisman (and Denzel Ward)? The freshman punter put another punt inside the opponent's 15 Saturday and boy was it pretty.
In fact, it was Chrisman's seventh-consecutive punt downed inside the opponent's 15 yard line, which may very well be the stat of the year so far.
Erick Smith came up big on Army's ensuing drive, which spanned the end of the 1st quarter and the start of the 2nd, robbing the Black Knights of a touchdown on a near interception.
Alas, Army would score on the posession – their only points on the afternoon – when Darnell Woolfolk punched it in from the three to cap an 18-play, 99-yard drive.
The Buckeyes would add a field goal late in the 2nd to go up 17-7. Then TBDBITL did their thing, crushing a tribute to New York.
Ohio State's first drive of the second half was all Dobbins. On the first play, he went 22 yards up the middle, crippling this poor safety.
On the very next play, Dobbins went 52 yards around the left end for six. Two runs, 74 yards and the Buckeyes now led 24-7. Dobbins would finish the day with 173 yards and two touchdowns on just 13 carries.
After Kendall Sheffield recovered an Army fumble, the Buckeyes were back in business with a quickness. Barrett capped a four-play 64-yard drive with this 20-yard toss to Terry McLaurin. 31-7, Buckeyes.
Urban Meyer's team would put one more touchdown on the board early in the fourth when Barrett found Austin Mack from nine yards out to make it 38-7. It was Mack's first career touchdown as a Buckeye, and the 107th touchdown J.T. Barrett has been responsible for in the Scarlet and Gray, breaking Drew Brees' conference record.
