Ohio State Football: 3 takeaways from rout of Rutgers in Week 12

Is anyone shocked that Ohio State football absolutely dominated Rutgers from start to finish on Saturday? What did we learn from the blowout?

Rutgers wasn’t expected to put up much of a fight on Saturday afternoon, and it didn’t, falling to Ohio State in dominant fashion.

The game may have been slightly closer than expected with a line of 50-plus in favor of the Buckeyes, but Ohio State seemed to coast in the second half while up by five scores. There’s nothing wrong with that, but if the Buckeyes want to continue to impress the playoff committee, they need to put up 70 on a team like Rutgers.

OK, now we’re being selfish here. The Buckeyes took care of business and now head into the final two tough games of the season with hope for a playoff berth.

What’d we learn from Ohio State’s blowout win?

3. Rutgers isn’t Big Ten material

We all expected a blowout win for Ohio State over Rutgers, but yet another terrible defeat by the Scarlet Knights just shows that maybe they aren’t Big Ten material.

Sure, Chris Ash being fired mid-season didn’t help matters, but it was time to move on from the former Ohio State assistant. He wasn’t turning things around in Piscataway anytime soon and the Scarlet Knights have just two wins on the season and won’t be playing for a bowl — although they lost bowl eligibility opportunities a week ago.

Rutgers has such a major talent gap against even mid-level Big Ten teams that it would probably have a hard time being competitive in the MAC.

We knew this blowout was coming, but it just reaffirmed what we believed about the Scarlet Knights: the Big Ten needs to move on.