COLUMBUS, Ohio — In the chess match that is Big Ten football, Brian Hartline just delivered a grandmaster performance.

Ohio State’s offensive coordinator has spent much of this season tinkering with his play-calling approach, but against Penn State, everything seemed to clicked into place. The Buckeyes’ first-half offensive performance wasn’t just efficient — it was artistic, a symphony of perfectly sequenced plays that built upon each other while keeping the Nittany Lions perpetually off-balance.

“This was Brian Hartline’s best work this season, I thought, in terms of just flow,” Stefan Krajisnik said on the Buckeye Talk podcast. “You just saw a rhythm with this offense and, even as they were changing things, different formations, different substitution packages and everything that t

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