Former Michigan football staffer Connor Stalions has responded to ex-Ohio State star Jack Sawyer’s assertion that the Wolverines knew the Buckeyes’ plays during a 45-23 victory in 2022. Sawyer said it felt like his team dominated the game but wound up losing by multiple touchdowns, the second of four consecutive losses in his career to Ohio State’s arch rival.
“You know, we ran a screen pass that we had never put in — not the formation, not the look, anything,” Sawyer said during a recent podcast appearance on “Not Just Football with Cam Heyward.” “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, now a rookie for the Pittsburgh Steelers, helped Ohio State clinch a spot in last season’s College Football Playoff National Championship with his scoop-n-score in the final moments of the Buckeyes’ win over Texas in the semifinals.
Stalions refuted Sawyer’s claims on social media and said Ohio State’s signals were easy to decipher.
“1. Jack is saying Ohio St never ran a Slot YY formation all year (pull up any of their games on YouTube and you’ll see them run that look),” Stalions wrote this week on ‘X’. “2. Their signal for this play was: The letter “Y” (TE in 99% of offenses), The Delay of Game sign. So “Y Delay. … Wonder what this will be. 3. Jack is admitting they never ran it before. 4. Your head coach already admitted that you changed your signs for us. I’ll stop here. I’m at 4 bullet points. Maybe add a 5th in November.”
Ohio State suffered two turnovers in the 2022 matchup and were outscored 21-3 in a decisive fourth quarter that featured…
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Author : Brad Crawford
Publish date : 2025-07-31 12:41:00
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