CHRIS OLAVE ETCHES HIS NAME IN OHIO STATE HISTORY WITH BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE AGAINST MICHIGAN
When Urban Meyer heard the call and saw the punt block signal, he was “pissed.” Not only did he think the play wouldn’t work, but he didn’t even think it was possible.
On Wednesday, Meyer pulled aside quality control coach Parker Fleming and told him the Buckeyes couldn’t pull off the play that Greg Schiano designed. He said Ohio State needed to get to the punter within 2.1 seconds, and that, to him, was not doable. As it turns out, he was wrong.
Chris Olave line up on the right side of the formation outside of Justin Hilliard and Damon Arnette. At the snap of the ball, he twisted up inside of Hilliard and Arnette, who pulled their blockers away from the middle of the formation, and came free. Earlier this week, Olave told Terry McLaurin he would need to dive in order to secure the first blocked punt of his career, but it only took a partial plunge forward to knock the ball out of the air.
“There's very few that can get there, and he did it,” Meyer said.
Sevyn Banks scooped the loose ball up and raced 33 yards to score a touchdown that gave the Buckeyes a 35-19 lead midway through the third quarter of their 62-39 win against Michigan on Saturday.
Ohio State needed a play like that to pick up the momentum lost when the Wolverines scored 14 points in the final three minutes of the first half.
“The end of the first half was kind of a mess,” Olave said. “We came out in the second half. We drove down and got a field goal, then defense got a stop, got that punt block and it just shifted the whole game.”
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