It’s officially Notre Dame Week.

Ohio State took care of business on Saturday, blowing out Western Kentucky 63-10 in a performance that was needed to build confidence.

We’ll look back on the win today before we move on to Notre Dame.

Here’s the good and bad from the game:. Spoiler alert: There wasn’t a lot of bad.

The good

Fourth-down throw to Emeka Egbuka on the first drive

Marvin Harrison Jr. gets a lot of attention from the media, and for good reason—he’s the best non-quarterback in the country—but I thought Egbuka was terrific on Saturday. This was one of my favorite plays of the game, and it just so happened to be on the first drive.

I want to start with Kyle McCord.

He’s shown so much growth in just three weeks. It’s against inferior competition, but this was a fantastic read.

On the pre-snap look, Ohio State is getting exactly what it wants, Harrison, in one-on-one coverage. This is an easy quick slant for the first down, but Ohio State motions for Egbuka to confirm man coverage.

McCord makes the right initial read, but Western Kentucky drops a blitzer into Harrison’s window. McCord does a nice job of double-clutching and going to his second read right away.

At first glance, from the press box, I thought this was a high throw that Egbuka had to make work. But on the replay, you can see that McCord had no choice but to throw the ball high. This is perfect ball placement, and Egbuka makes the catch despite the hit in the air.

This is such good execution. Beautiful play from both players.

The DE pressure was better than you might’ve thought

Saturday was the first real chance we were able to see Ohio State’s defensive line get after the quarterback.

On paper, it might’ve looked like an unproductive day for JT Tuimoloau and Jack Sawyer because they didn’t record a sack. While you’ll want to see them tally some sacks in the future, this game was always going to be a challenge in that area because WKU quarterback Austin Reed gets rid of the ball quickly. Unless it’s a free run, he’s not going to get sacked often.

There were plays, though, where you really saw the impact of Ohio State’s edge guys.

This was one.