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| Devin Smith stunned Bucky |
What a game. What a finish. What an effort. The Ohio State Buckeyes showed tremendous poise under pressure after surrendering a 12-point lead to Wisconsin with less than four minutes on the clock. Braxton Miller did not play like a freshman, he played like a man who knew he had a job to do, and that job was to win a football game. Much like Terrelle Pryor did back in 2008 against Bucky, Miller led a late 4th quarter drive to win the game for Ohio State.
The second half of the game was the Braxton Miller show, rushing for two touchdowns and, of course, throwing a 40-yard strike to Devin Smith to win the game. Miller showed excellent composure on his first touchdown run to give the Buckeyes their first lead of the game early in the 3rd quarter. On 4th-and-goal, Ohio State needed a touchdown to cap their opening drive of the half, a drive kick-started by Boom Herron’s 57-yard dash. A fake to the running back, a nifty move on a Badger defender and Braxton Miller walked into the end zone.
Miller’s second touchdown run of the game seemingly put the game out of reach when Braxton kept an option play and ran 44 yards untouched to the house. However, two Russell Wilson touchdown passes to Jared Abbrederis gave Wisconsin a 29-26 lead with 1:18 left in the game.
