Quinshon Judkins and TreVeyon Henderson combined for 249 rushing yards and four touchdowns to lead No. 3 Ohio State to a 49-14 win over Marshall in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday.
Henderson ran for a 40-yard touchdown on the first possession of the third quarter for a 35-14 lead in the final nonconference game for the Buckeyes (3-0).
He had 76 yards on six carries and also had a 14-yard score. Judkins’s 86-yard TD was part of his 173 yards on 14 attempts. He made it 49-14 early in the fourth quarter with a 6-yard run.
The Buckeyes had four scoring plays of 40-plus yards, including a 53-yard catch by Jeremiah Smith to make it 42-14 in the third quarter.
Marshall (1-2) opened and closed the first half with touchdowns as the Buckeyes scored 28 unanswered points in between to reach the 28-14 score.
Judkins had a huge first half with 114 yards on four carries. He and Henderson averaged 13.2 yards per rush with a score each but it wasn’t enough to shake the Thundering Herd.
Marshall took the opening kickoff and went 75 yards in 13 plays, capped by a 1-yard run by Ethan Payne. The Buckeyes quickly responded, when on their second snap Emeka Egbuka had a 68-yard catch-and-run to tie it 7-7.
Egbuka had five catches for 117 yards. Will Howard was 16 for 20 for 275 yards with two touchdowns and an interception for the Buckeyes.
Howard scored from 1 early in the second quarter to put the Buckeyes ahead 14-7 and Judkins, the transfer from Ole Miss, extended the lead on his 86-yard score, tied for the third longest rushing TD in program history.
Henderson made it 28-7 with 3:33 left in the half when he rushed for 14 yards, but Stone Earle engineered a 54-yard drive and found Elijah Metcalf in the back of the end zone with six seconds left for the score.
Earle was 16 of 21 for 132 yards and the TD before leaving midway through the third quarter with an injury.
–Field Level Media
