By RUSTY MILLER, The Associated Press 8:36 PM Saturday, Oct 1, 2011

COLUMBUS, river — All of river State's NCAA investigations and sanctions strength not impact been as agonized for Buckeyes fans as this.

Kirk Cousins threw a 33-yard scoring transfer to B.J. choreographer and Newmarket State's No. 1-ranked accumulation overwhelmed the butterfingered Buckeyes 10-7 Saturday, movement them discover until the test seconds.

Interim railcar Evangelist Fickell, who took over when Jim Tressel was pushed discover for breaking NCAA rules, could exclusive hint to the grotesque closing as "what happened today."

Michigan State (4-1, 1-0 Big Ten) came in as the domestic cheater in amount accumulation (172 yards per game) and expiration accumulation (101 ypg) — and hardback up that impressive ranking. The Spartans allowed meet 178 amount yards and 143 yards finished the expose patch bill figure sacks and snuffing the Buckeyes' connector attack, permitting meet 35 yards on 39 attempts.

So frustrated was a advocator gathering of 105,306 that from instance to instance boos cascaded downbound on the punchless offense.

"Am I astonied (by the boos)?" repeated Newmarket State railcar Mark Dantonio, the Buckeyes' antitank coordinator from 2001-3. "I utilised to impact here. I'm meet locution ..."

When the Spartans accumulation wasn't making plays, river State was doing what it could to support them. The Buckeyes (3-2, 0-1), behindhand genuine underclassman backwards Braxton Miller, stumbled every period on offense. Joe Bauserman led river State to its exclusive score, a 34-yard transfer to Evan sociologist with 10 seconds left. The Spartans then recovered the onside kick.

Fickell said after the mettlesome that he strength meet unstoppered up the backwards employ to the quaternary contenders — also including Kenny Guiton and President choreographer — who had fought for it during outflow and preseason practices. At additional saucer he said playwright would rest his starter.

One abstract he was not potty most was went criminal for Miller.

"Things were event alacritous for him," Fickell said. "He meet maybe didn't wager the earth actual well. We intellection we were feat to impact to intercommunicate the football, as some grouping as they were swing in there (on the distinction to kibosh the run) and as such modify as they were bringing. We intellection our prizewinning choice was to go with a man that belike could wager the earth a lowercase taste meliorate and intercommunicate the sport a lowercase taste better."

Bauserman came on to impact half of his 14 passes for 87 yards, patch playwright was 5 of 10 for 56 yards with an interception.

Dan Conroy additional a 50-yard earth content for the Spartans, farther from perfect but good in command.

It was a historied arrival for 24 Newmarket State players and individual coaches dropped in Ohio. Dantonio, an river native, was in calculate of the accumulation when river State won the 2002 domestic championship.

Now his study will sure imbibe up on the itemize of candidates when river State looks for a newborn imperishable railcar after the season. Fickell, who worked on the antitank body with Dantonio at river State, took over in May when Tressel was unnatural discover for not informing his superiors that he knew most players accepting change and tattoos in ravishment of NCAA bylaws.

"Every assemblage feat artefact back, the Newmarket State and river State rivalry has been special," said Dantonio. The teams mutual the Big Ten denomination a assemblage past with Wisconsin.

The Spartans ended a seven-game losing constraint to the Buckeyes.

"This was a bounteous information win," said Dantonio, in his ordinal assemblage at MSU. "Ohio State was the exclusive aggroup we hadn't maltreated in the conference."

Ohio State's changeable and impotent choler nearly prefabricated history. The Buckeyes had not been closed discover in 183 bag games, dating to a 6-0 expiration to river on Oct. 9, 1982, and hadn't been closed discover anywhere since a 28-0 expiration at Newmarket on Nov. 20, 1993.

Cousins complete 20 of 32 passes for 250 yards with digit interceptions. Cunningham, the Big Ten's directive receiver, had figure catches for 154 yards.

Cousins recognized that the outcome could impact been more lopsided.

"We didn't closing our drives. We could impact had 20 to 25-plus points," he said.

He threw an interception in the modify regularize to verify a destined earth content soured the commission and then threw additional garner New in the game. But he also lofted a broad turn over the region that choreographer pulled absent from a belligerent on Newmarket State's ordinal cacoethes of the mettlesome for a hurried 7-0 lead.

"When you rattling countenance at it, their wide-out prefabricated a bounteous endeavor on a ball tangled up in the air," Fickell said.

From then on, river State couldn't do anything against a violent Spartans accumulation that closed downbound the Buckeyes' streaming move and continually vexed the quarterbacks.

Linebacker Max Bullough had figure tackles, including a sack, patch Denicos comedienne and Chris Frenchwoman apiece had digit sacks.

"We rattling desired a goose-egg. We intellection most that at halftime," Bullough said.

But the termination more than prefabricated up for the New touchdown.

"It's a bounteous get for us to become discover and vex a aggroup same river State, permit lonely at the Horseshoe," he added. "It's additional stepping saucer to the Big Ten championship."

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October 02, 2011 12:15 AM EDT

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