Pittsburgh Steelers rookie and former Ohio State star Jack Sawyer solidified his spot in Buckeyes lore during January’s College Football Playoff semifinal win over Texas with a victory-clinching fumble return touchdown in the final minutes. It was the highlight of a career for a multi-year starter who won a national championship but never beat Michigan during his tenure.
And one of those four losses to the Wolverines, Sawyer says, was particularly difficult to comprehend.
“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,'” Sawyer said during a recent podcast appearance on Not Just Football with Cam Heyward. “We lost by double digits, and it felt like we had beat the shit out of them all game. You know, we ran a screen pass that we had never put in — not the formation, not the look, anything.
“And you see them on the sideline, they’re doing (the 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.”
Sawyer’s referring to Ohio State’s 45-23 blowout loss to Michigan in 2022’s battle of the unbeatens when the Wolverines came to Columbus and piled up 530 total yards on the Buckeyes.
Freshman phenom Bryce Underwood already has all the tools, but Michigan QB battle won’t be won on paper
Brandon Marcello
…
Source link : https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/former-ohio-state-star-jack-sawyer-harps-on-2022-loss-to-michigan-questions-wolverines-scouting/
Author : Brad Crawford
Publish date : 2025-07-29 13:08:00
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
