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Jack Sawyer is a national champion heading into this rookie season with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL.
However, the former Ohio State football linebacker is still trying to process how the Buckeyes lost to rival Michigan in the regular season finale in 2025. The Wolverines pulled off a major upset with a 13-10 win on Nov. 30 in “The Game” to keep OSU out of the Big Ten Conference Championship game.
The Buckeyes, of course, bounced back and ended up winning the national championship, which was sealed by a game-clinching fumble return for a touchdown by Sawyer, who never beat Michigan during his OSU career.
“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 (expletive) 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.”
The game Sawyer is referencing is a 45-23 Michigan win in 2022, when both teams entered “The Game” with an undefeated record. However, the Wolverines outscored the Buckeyes 21-3 in the fourth quarter, which included touchdown runs of 85 and 75 yards,…
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Publish date : 2025-07-29 16:59:00
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