Ohio State’s final scoring chance came with 2:51 left, set up in ideal field-goal range. HC Ryan Day sent PK Jayden Fielding out for a 27-yard attempt that should have tied the game at 13-13. The outcome was a wide left, leaving the Buckeyes with no points and Indiana with a chance to finish the job. But the aftermath of that miss created a far bigger storyline around the kicker’s future.

“When you don’t do your job and you’re coming up short, then get that fixed as well. It’s the same thing with him,” Ryan Day said in his conference speech on December 7. “There’s a reason why I put him in there. We are not putting guys into games that we don’t believe in so once you’ve been to any game, we believe that you have to do a job. What is your job to make sure that gets done. So just like every

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