Grambling State coach Mickey Joseph knew what was coming when his team faced No. 1 Ohio State.
Oh, he was right. And he wasn't alone Saturday, a day the likes of which college football hadn't seen in more than a decade.
As for Grambling State, it lost 70-0 to the defending national champion. And by day's end, there were seven games decided by 60 points or more — the most in major college football since there also were seven such games on Sept. 6, 2014, exactly 11 years earlier.
The last instance of seven such games in the same day before that? Sept. 26, 1931 — five years before the first AP football poll.
“It's no secret,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said after the Grambling game. “This was not a matchup game.”
No, it wasn't. There was a lot of that going around Saturday.
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