With 4:21 to go in the final frame, Hawkins missed a 45-yard field goal, which would have put the Buckeyes up by two scores. <\/p>\n
TEXAS SCORES 21 UNANSWERED TO COME BACK AGAINST NO. 1 OHIO STATE \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n
WHAT A GAME \ud83d\ude31 pic.twitter.com\/Gi6KOKf5jN<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 ESPN (@espn) September 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Reflecting on the missed field goal, head coach Ryan Day acknowledged that the kick was a critical missed opportunity to close out the game. The miss, along with stalled drives, left the team on its heels down the stretch.<\/p>\n “Today, we really played well for three quarters and didn’t play well enough in the fourth quarter. That’s the bottom line,” Day\u00a0said postgame. “We stalled on some offensive drives. I felt we had them on the ropes and didn’t finish.<\/p>\n “\u2026 Certainly had a chance to kick the field goal to make it a two-score game and didn’t do that. This one hurts.”<\/p>\n Ohio State\u2019s kicker lost them the game \ud83d\ude2d pic.twitter.com\/wuCzGv9EQB<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) September 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n But this isn’t the first time Ohio State has been plagued by special teams errors. <\/p>\n The Buckeyes lost the Big Ten Championship to a Fernando Mendoza-led Indiana Hoosiers squad, with then-kicker Jayden Fielding missing a game-tying field goal wide left. He left the game open for the Hoosiers to close out the game, which they would, ultimately defeating the Buckeyes 13-10. <\/a><\/p>\n Fielding had also missed a kick in the Cotton Bowl against the University of Miami. <\/p>\n Just before halftime, the Buckeyes were starting to build momentum against a tough Hurricanes team. Pushing the offense into field goal range, quarterback Julian Sayin set up Fielding to smack through a 42-yarder. <\/p>\n He would ultimately miss it wide left. <\/p>\n I HATE KICKING. Yet another team kicked in the stomach by its kicker (who had made his first three FGs): Ohio State lost this game when its kicker missed badly from 45 yards with 4:16 left. Would’ve given the Buckeyes a 9-point lead.<\/p>\n \u2014 Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) September 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n A few years earlier, the Buckeyes’ most notable missed kick occurred when then-kicker Noah Ruggles failed to connect on a 50-yarder in the 2022 Peach Bowl against Georgia. <\/p>\n His kick missed just as the ball dropped in Times Square and the calendar turned to 2023, making it an even more difficult moment to swallow. <\/p>\n While Hawkins had made three other kicks, including a 48-yard field goal and two PATs, in Saturday’s defeat to the Longhorns, the Buckeyes’ long history of missed crucial kicks casts a dark shadow over his missed attempt.<\/p>\n The Buckeyes and Hawkins will have a chance to avenge the one-point loss this coming weekend <\/a>as they take on the Kent State Golden Flashes. <\/p>\n The two sides will go toe-to-toe from The Show on Saturday, Sept. 19, at 12:00 p.m. EST. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\"){kind=icon}
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