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RB Trey Sermon (2020 B1G CCG MVP, Indianapolis Colts)

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When I’m in the zone, I just feel like personally, everything just really slows down,” Sermon said. “The game really slows down, and I’m able to just see everything develop and just continue to be decisive and just make the right reads, make the right cuts.”

Early on this season, Sermon didn’t look like a running back who was capable of a record-breaking performance like he had Saturday. In Ohio State’s first four games of the year, Sermon often looked tentative, rushing for only 58 yards per game and scoring no touchdowns. Even Ryan Day acknowledged after Saturday’s game that the Buckeyes had their doubts about Sermon after his underwhelming play earlier in the season.

“There was a time probably after Week 2 or Week 3, we really weren’t sure what’s going on, just maybe not hitting the hole right, didn’t have a lot of confidence and we didn’t know Trey, so we weren’t sure exactly what we had there,” Day said of Sermon, who arrived at Ohio State as a graduate transfer this summer. “And then to see him persevere again through all that, to play the way he did in this game and break records like that, that’s tremendous. Against a really good run-stopping defense.”

In Ohio State’s final regular-season game against Michigan State, however, Sermon finally started to look like the back the Buckeyes thought he could be, running for 112 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries. And on Saturday, it was evident from early in the game that he had the Wildcats’ number.

“After he broke a couple (of long runs) out, even in the first half, I was like, ‘Oh, he’s about to go off,’” said Ohio State center Josh Myers. “I knew it was just a matter of time.”
 
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I went back and read through the game thread just after Trey broke the record. If your posts per page is the default, it’s pages 115-117. Definitely worth a reread.

To break the record on a run like that is the kind of thing you’d call corny in a movie, but in real life... just wow. When it happened, I told my wife that the YouTube video of that run would live on in Buckeye lore for years. As I write this, there have been three different BP posts from three different Twitter accounts of three different media outlets of their own YouTube channel’s post of that run.

and for a guy who must have thought he’d made the most unfortunate transfer in the history of the sport not very long ago
 
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DaddyBigBucks said:
I went back and read through the game thread just after Trey broke the record. If your posts per page is the default, it’s pages 115-117. Definitely worth a reread.

To break the record on a run like that is the kind of thing you’d call corny in a movie, but in real life... just wow. When it happened, I told my wife that the YouTube video of that run would live on in Buckeye lore for years. As I write this, there have been three different BP posts from three different Twitter accounts of three different media outlets of their own YouTube channel’s post of that run.

and for a guy who must have thought he’d made the most unfortunate transfer in the history of the sport not very long ago
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Too bad he didn’t have the opportunity to lay that on TTUN, but Buckeyes definitely needed every yard of it today.
 
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Just an amazing performance. And more reason why top RBs choose the Buckeyes. They see getting to play behind some of the top OL in the nation, and what opportunities can happen if they make use of their opportunities
 
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