After back-to-back performances where his team held conference opponents below 20 points, Ryan Day acknowledged what the box scores had shown.
"We almost reengineered the defense," he said of the work he and the defensive staff put in during the bye week following the loss to Oregon. "What I mean by that is, not scrap everything, but ... how do we put our players in the best position to be successful? How are teams scheming us up?"
But to the naked eye, the changes that led to consecutive performances that limited Nebraska to just 273 yards and Penn State to 270 might not be so clear. Luckily, that's why we're here.
Here's what we go over in this week's video breakdown:
- The basics of Ohio State's defense leading up to the Oregon game
- How the Ducks exposed the weaknesses of that approach
- Disguising post-snap movement better in the past two weeks
- Taking a page from TTUN to stop the pass in State College
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