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Ohio State Scores Two Touchdowns in Final Seven Minutes For Comeback Win, 27-26, Over Penn State in Happy Valley

Source: www.elevenwarriors.com - Sunday, September 30, 2018
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – For the second year in a row, Ohio State came back from a multi-score deficit in the fourth quarter to defeat Penn State in an instant classic. The Buckeyes scored two touchdowns in the game’s final seven minutes to come back from a 12-point deficit and defeat the Nittany Lions, 27-26, silencing a record crowd of 110,889 at Beaver Stadium to improve to 5-0 on the season. 1 2 3 4 F #4 OHIO STATE 0 7 7 13 27 PENN STATE 3 10 0 13 26 Penn State was dominant for most of the first half of Saturday’s game, out-gaining Ohio State by 200 yards (293 to 93) in the first 30 minutes. Ohio State’s offense was forced to punt on seven of its first eight possessions, and turned the ball over on the other, when a Dwayne Haskins pass went off of Rashod Berry’s hands and was intercepted by Penn State safety Garrett Taylor. Despite a spectacular 31-yard one-handed catch by Juwan Johnson on Penn State’s opening possession, a 51-yard run by Trace McSorley on the Nittany Lions’ second possession and Taylor’s 45-yard interception return to the 28-yard line, Ohio State was able to hold the Nittany Lions to field goal attempts after each of those big plays, and Jake Pinegar only made two out of three, limiting Penn State’s lead to 6-0 through its first six series. On Penn State’s seventh possession of the game, however, Ohio State’s defense surrendered its second 93-yard touchdown in three weeks when Penn State wide receiver KJ Haml

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