Scoreboard 1 2 3 4 Final Ohio State 17 0 14 14 45 Minnesota 10 7 7 7 31 SCORING SUMMARY First Quarter OSU 12:42 Holmes 41 pass from Smith (Huston kick) OSU 7:09 Huston 31 FG MN 5:16 Maroney 1 run (Giannini kick) OSU 5:03 Ginn 100 kick return (Huston kick) MN 0:09 Giannini 30 FG   Second Quarter MN 11:57 Ellerson 5 pass from Cupito (Giannini kick)   Third Quarter OSU 12:47 Pittman 67 run (Huston kick) OSU 7:46 Gonzalez 27 pass from Smith (Huston kick) MN 6:14 Russell 1 run (Giannini kick)   Fourth Quarter OSU 13:20 Pittman 4 run (Huston kick) OSU 10:39 Holmes 30 pass from Smith (Huston kick) MN 0:53 Russell 1 run (Giannini kick)     Game notes: - Back to the 2005 season page... Back to the Ohio State page... Back to the football historical records page... Back to the University of Minnesota page... Back to Eric's home page...

Minnesota Ohio State First Downs 23 22 Rushing Yards 182 216 Passing Yards 396 233 Net Yards 578 449 Comp/Att/Int 26/36/0 14/20/0 Punts/Avg 4/38.3 4/33.8 Fumbles/Lost 1/1 0/0 Penalties/Yds 6/50 4/30 Time of Possession 28:34 31:26 Attendance 54,825 INDIVIDUAL STATS RUSHING Att Yds TD Minnesota Laurence Maroney 25 127 1 Gary Russell 15 50 2 Ernest Wheelwright 1 3 0 Bryan Cupito 1 2 0 Ohio State Antonio Pittman 23 186 2 Troy Smith 11 25 0 Maurice Wells 8 7 0 PASSING Cmp Att Yds TD Int Minnesota Bryan Cupito 26 35 396 1 0 Gary Russell 0 1 0 0 0 Ohio State Troy Smith 14 20 233 3 0 RECEIVING No. Yds TD Minnesota Jared Ellerson 5 113 1 Logan Payne 4 82 0 Matt Spaeth 3 58 0 Ernest Wheelwright 3 50 0 Jakari Wallace 4 48 0 Laurence Maroney 3 19 0 Micah Rucker 1 10 0 Gary Russell 2 9 0 Jarod Posthumus 1 7 0 Ohio State Santonio Holmes 4 94 2 Anthony Gonzalez 4 63 1 Ted Ginn Jr. 3 53 0 Antonio Pittman 1 16 0 Marcel Frost 1 6 0 Stan White Jr. 1 1 0