Ohio State coach Ryan Day called it a “big win” over Penn State on Saturday, while Nittany Lions coach James Franklin lamented his team’s eighth straight loss to the Buckeyes. Ohio State stood at the goal line and then ran out the clock. 20-13 win In front of the largest crowd in Beaver Stadium history.

Here’s what the coaches said afterward.

Penn State coach James Franklin

In the game: First of all, you have to give credit to Ohio State. They did a really good job today. We did some things that were good enough to win and some things we didn’t do. We can’t get the ball inside the 5-yard line twice and go scoreless. A turnover that does not suit our character at all, and then another turnover that is basically about declines. Picking the six was a big play in the game.
But against a really good team, we only scored six points in attack and seven points in defense. Are they good at defense? Yes. So do we need to find ways to produce points and yards? There is no doubt about it. We could not achieve this. Give them a ton of credit.

On whether he considered giving the ball to Tyler Warren at the goal line in the fourth quarter:
Yeah, we gave the ball to the running back (Kaytron Allen), I think three times, we threw the ball
in the last one. Yes, should we? Should we probably have given him the ball? Tyler Warren After his tricks Yes, I understand the question. I understand

Ohio State running 11 consecutive plays in the game-clinching streak: They finally entered the championship race. We didn’t play well in an obvious run situation. He couldn’t address the fact that the offense wasn’t scoring well in this situation.

After the loss, the team’s focus is: We’ve got to come in tomorrow and do a great job making the corrections, but then Sunday night, we’ve got to clean this up and move on to Washington. We can’t let one loss turn into two. The reality of college football is that everything is still ahead of us and we have to do a great job of making corrections, eliminating the unforced errors that happened today, and then find a way to fix it. win at home next week and
Everything is still ahead of us.

About penalties: Jumping offside on an obvious third down situation prolongs the drive for them, and a man tackle and stomp draws an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that extends the stoppage time on third down.
to spread. We can’t do this. I can’t do this, I can’t do this, I can’t do this. It happened last week and it happened again this week. This is from me. We need to be a disciplined football team. Sometimes we were not disciplined
Today.

In his message to his fans: I understand your frustrations. The men in the locker room are just as angry. But college football has changed, and starting today we have the opportunity to move forward to right some wrongs, and that’s what we’ll focus on. I understand We encounter an incredible crowd here. We get incredible support. You can’t do this without passion. And great things come out of that, and difficult things come out of it. It’s part of the job and it’s all mine.

In Beau Pribula: I think our plan was to get Beau more involved based on how practices with Drew went this week, but we didn’t have much success with him there. So I think that probably plays into some of that. We didn’t have much success while he was there, so we moved away from him.

As for the importance of this game: There is no one who looks harder in the mirror than me. I will say this, and I’ve said it before, 99 percent of college football programs would die to do what we’ve been able to do in our time here. But I also understand that when you’re at a place like Penn State, the expectations are really, really high. It’s really high when you’re at a place like Ohio State
expectations. I understand So we looked at all of this really carefully. We’ll continue to look at these issues really carefully.

On Ohio State’s interception late in the second quarter: Drew made a nice shot. We had a chance to do it
Go down with the ball. At first they said it was missing, then they examined it and said it was INT. The guys watching on TV have a better idea of ​​how this turned out. This game had tons of 50/50 calls that you could call in either direction. There are a ton of them in this game. A fumble on the sideline, at the 2-yard line on the near arm, is, of course, called a (field) touchdown. There are a ton of 50/50 calls
They are critical in both situations and games of this nature. Other than that, I don’t have much to give you. But you know turning the ball over in the red zone and getting stopped on downs is two
Ball losses within the five. Actually, this is the story of the game.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day

On the win: This was a big game for us for many reasons. A top-five team in a tough environment gets such an away win and moves Donnie (Donovan Jackson) to the left. We knew we had to win fast yards, the turnover challenge was going to be big, and then there were no negative plays. That’s what we really focused on, but at the end of the day we had to stop and find a way to get off the extra first. So I think that will move us forward and it will go a long way to get this win for our players.

In defense: We got one and then we got Igbinosun’s tackle, heading towards the end of the half and then today. This shows that there is a great toughness, a never give up, give me an inch, I will defend this mentality. You have to give credit to Jim and the entire defense for the preparation they made going into the game. Penn State does an excellent job of changing formations, moving, different looks, and you know we found a way to get in the stands and when it comes to players, coaches can put you in a situation, but players have to execute. and they did just that.

Quarterback Will Howard: As a playmaker, he gives us the power to dominate the ball. You saw the run between when the ball hit the square and it was a well-executed play – and Trayveon (Henderson) made a great block there as well – and other guys were running after people and that’s how the play ended. What I did was like shooting him right in the stomach. But there is nothing to do, you have to regroup and continue on your way. This is the sign of someone who is resilient, someone who has been through this situation before and wants it to happen. He had that look in his eyes all week that he wasn’t going to lose this game and he refused to lose and that mentality helped us win the game.