Each week of college football creates its overarching storylines. In a single Saturday, Ohio State defensive coordinator Matt Patricia completely rewrote his own script.

“The story of the game was the defense,” Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day said , offering up maybe the understatement of the year in his press conference following his team’s 14-7 win over No. 1 Texas.

Inherently, that also means the story of the game was Patricia. But No. 3 Ohio State’s defensively dominant effort delivered twists to a variety of subplots that had been building for months.

Among them: the eager anticipation for the Arch Manning era at Texas beginning with a thud. The heir of football royalty managed just 170 yards on 17-of-30 passing and led only one scoring drive — more than 56 minutes into the contest.

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