Former Ohio State star Jack Sawyer points out the one Michigan game that he feels was just not fair for the Buckeyes

The Ohio State Buckeyes ended a decade-long drought last season when Ryan Day captured his first National Championship.

With that target now off his back, Day’s next clear goal is to get back to beating Michigan. After four straight losses to the Wolverines, the Buckeyes desperately need to right the ship in 2025.

Ohio State fell 13-10 in a heartbreaker last season before going on a strong run in the College Football Playoff. One former Buckeye star believes that loss was fair and square — but he has questions about another one.

“I think they beat us straight up last year, obviously, and the year before. But my sophomore year, we left the field and we were like, ‘This feels weird,’” Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Jack Sawyer said recently on a podcast. “We lost by double digits, and it felt like we had beat the sh** out of them all game.

“You know, we ran a screen pass that we had never put in — not the formation, not the look, nothing. And, like, you see them on the sideline, they’re doing [signals], and we change it, we audible to it or whatever, and when we run it, all the D-linemen, as soon as the ball is snapped — the linebackers, everybody — they sniffed it out. We ran a tight end screen from the 25-yard line going in, and they snuffed it out on 1st-and-10.”