Filed under: Arkansas, Ohio State, Big 10, SEC, Bowl Games
NEW ORLEANS - Consider "The Mess" cleaned up.Two weeks ago, Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor maneuvered himself squarely into the crosshairs of the NCAA SWAT team by admitting to having signed and sold team memorabilia -- an offense that earned the embattled junior quarterback and four of his Buckeye teammates a five-game suspension at the beginning of the 2011 season.
But the quarterback who got into so much trouble for autographing items for cold cash placed his personal signature on the Allstate Sugar Bowl Tuesday night.
And Pryor did it in bold strokes.
Displaying the full array of an offensive arsenal that had people comparing him favorably to Cam Newton, Pryor passed for 221 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another 115 yards to power No. 6 Ohio State (12-1) to a 31-26 victory over No. 8 Arkansas (10-3).
The victory not only was a personal statement by Pryor but also a collective exorcism for both the Buckeyes and the beleaguered Big Ten.
It was Ohio State's first bowl victory against an SEC team after nine consecutive losses, and it helped erase some of the sting of the Big Ten's Black Saturday, when member schools went 0-5 in bowl action.
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