Ohio State scored touchdowns on their first three possessions of the 3rd quarter to overcome a 7-point halftime deficit, and hold off the Iowa Hawkeyes 34-24. The win was the 19th straight for the Buckeyes under Urban Meyer, and kept them unbeaten in 2013 at 7-0. Braxton Miller threw 2 touchdown passes and Carlos Hyde rushed for two more scores, as the Buckeye offense was in high gear all afternoon. Now...about that defense.
The Iowa offense had their way with the Buckeye defenders in the early going, scoring the first three times they had the ball to take first half leads of 10-3 and 17-10. Iowa mixed their play-action passing game with an effective rushing attack, and had a young OSU defensive line back on their heels. Hawkeye quarterback Jake Rudock threw his first seven completions to three different tight ends, and Iowa moved the chains and scored as if they didn’t know they were playing the nation’s No. 4 team in front of 105,264 hostile fans.
The second half of the regular season begins Saturday as the 6-0 Buckeyes host the Iowa Hawkeyes for Homecoming in Columbus. Ohio State comes off a bye week and into a stretch of five straight games against some of the lesser lights of the Big Ten before they head to Ann Arbor 
Ohio State engineered a second half comeback behind the relentless running of Carlos Hyde to edge an inspired Northwestern team and notch their 18th straight victory under Urban Meyer. The Buckeyes trailed for the first time all season, and faced a 23-13 deficit late in the 3rd quarter before the defense stiffened, and Hyde took over the offensive load, rushing for 112 of his career high 168 yards in the second half.
The 4th-ranked Buckeyes will play in primetime for a national TV audience for the second straight week as they head to Chicago for a date with 