On November 21, 2015, my heart was broken, and not by just one guy, but by 117 guys.

The Ohio State Buckeyes were handed their first loss on their perfect season, by the Michigan State Spartans in the final seconds of the game, when MSU kicked the go ahead field goal.

The game was a mess and I, a former Buckeye and forever fan, will be the first one to say that nothing about it went right.

First of all, Ohio State only ran 45, yes I said 45, offensive plays, as compared to their average 69 plays per game. On top of that, the Buckeyes had only five first downs and only 132 yards of total offense, which is the fewest by any Urban Meyer-coached team. Ezekiel Elliott, you know the Heisman Trophy candidate that was stellar in the Buckeye’s National Championship run, won the Sullivan Award, and had a documentary made on his life and road to the 614 by ESPN. Ring a bell? Well, he touched the ball only 12 times on Saturday. TWELVE. I’m sorry but you do not give the third-leading rusher in Ohio State history the ball only 12 times in a crucial game like this one (Coach, you’re calling the wrong plays). P.S.: During the second half, he only touched the ball twice. When Zeke did get the ball, he went straight into the turf. The MSU defense was quick and breaking tackles came few and far between. Oh, and the offensive line? How gross of a performance.

Many people, including an OSU elite, which I will get to in a second, are blaming the play-calling. It obviously did not work. But, there is more to it than the argument that Elliott needed the ball more. Yes, the play calling was predictable, not dynamic, and lacked any sense of complexity. However, our receivers couldn’t catch anything. J.T. Barrett missed easy short throws, was nearly intercepted on the underthrown ball to Thomas and completely overthrew former QB Braxton Miller on a deep shot that could have given the Buckeyes another couple points. The longest pass for the OSU offense was a 16-yard toss to Jalin Marshall for one of the two TD’s scored. Yeah, it was windy and the weather sucked, but a 16-yard toss was the best that we could do? We weren’t able to throw or call plays that would have been able to take on the MSU defense.

After the players hung their heads while TBDBITL played "Carmen Ohio" Elliott, as well as Joshua Perry, J.T. Barrett, and Luke Fickell (co-defensive coordinator) spoke postgame. First of all, I found it sort of funny that none of the offensive coaches spoke after 132 total yards of offense. Put your big boy pants on and give your fans some answers, please. Secondly, Cardale Jones said he is not coming back to play next year after he tweeted that this was his last game at Ohio Stadium, as he is going to the NFL. I am not sure why everyone is freaking out or surprised by this? He has been going to the NFL all year. This isn’t news. Lastly, if you’ve been on Twitter, you know that Ezekiel Elliott was extremely critical of play calling. Not only that, he thought this was the perfect time to announce that he would not be returning to the Shoe for another game because he was declaring for the draft.

You can watch the entire interview here.

Elliott is receiving a lot of backlash from his comments, but others are agreeing with him. Especially teammate Darron Lee, who took it to Twitter and agreed with Elliott that the play-calling was to blame. Sorry, Darron but you missed six tackles. You don’t get to blame play-calling, sir.

I completely agree with him because:

1. Zeke is in the running for the Heisman. This is huge, even though Elliott said he wasn't thinking about winning the award. Now, when you are only given the opportunity to run the ball less than 15 times and only manage 33 yards in the most crucial game of the season for the defending National Champions, chances of winning the Heisman plummet.
2. Take a second and think about who the best player is on that team. If it were me, I would say either defensive monster Joey Bosa or Elliott. Zeke led OSU to the national title last season and rushed for nearly 700 yards in the three postseason games the Buckeyes played. With numbers like those, how would you feel if you only touched the ball 12 times? Not like a National Champion MVP, I can tell you that.
3. The play calling was total BS. I don’t know why OSU was not pounding the ground game with the weather as crappy as it was. You have got to keep giving the ball to players like Zeke, You can’t count on a scrambling quarterback to do all the work.
4. He was honest and expressed what he felt was the problem. I have a hard time with this because I admire his honesty, after all, that is what fans and the media want to hear out of a press conference. However, it is also why I disagree with him.

Here is why I disagree with Elliott:

1. Publicly calling out your coaches is not necessarily something I would recommend. If I would have publicly called out my coaches after a loss on the soccer field, you better believe I would have been running until I couldn’t feel my legs and that my butt would have been on the bench for the next few games. Coaches make mistakes, I get it, but take it up with them, not the media.
2. You have to learn how to lose. Zeke lost the first game of his college career as a starter (this isn’t counting Virginia Tech last season because he was still working his way to the starting spot), and he went off. Winners need to learn how to lose, and lose with grace. I understand it is not the way you want to lose, I get it, and I agree with why you thought you lost. However, you have to suck it up and use the negatives in your training for the next game. Because when you travel to That School Up North, no excuses are going to be acceptable.
3. You are a team. You win as a team and lose as a team. I know you are not the only one that is frustrated after Saturday’s game, but you are the only one who chose to take your frustration outside of the locker room.

Penn State, our fate is in your hands. You have one job next week, take down the Spartans.