{"id":2106,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2106","headline":"Jeremiah Smith's frustration draws criticism after Ohio State's loss to Oregon","dek":"The star wide receiver went more than two quarters without a catch as Oregon scored 38 straight points in a 41-28 win over the Buckeyes.","body":"Jeremiah Smith is supposed to be the best player in college football. On Saturday he looked like a guy who wanted to be anywhere else.\n\nOhio State needed a win over Oregon to keep its College Football Playoff hopes from flatlining entirely, especially after an injury to quarterback Julian Sayin knocked the season off course last month. Instead the Buckeyes got run off their own field, falling 41-28 after Oregon erased an early 14-0 deficit with 38 unanswered points.\n\nSmith's part in that collapse was mostly silence. He went more than two full quarters without a single catch, and his visible frustration on the sideline did not go unnoticed. A longtime Buckeyes reporter called him out publicly, labeling his reaction that of a petulant child.\n\nThe pile-on did not stop there. Former national champion Damien Harris weighed in too, suggesting Smith has more to lose than gain by playing out the rest of Ohio State's season, with the Buckeyes' playoff chances now hanging by a thread.\n\nWhether Smith responds with his play or his temper will shape how the rest of his season, and his legacy at Ohio State, gets remembered.","published_at":"2026-11-09T01:23:46.888234+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Ohio State reporter calls Jeremiah Smith a ‘petulant child’ after his visible frustration","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ohio-state-reporter-calls-jeremiah-193048055.html"},{"outlet":"Awful Announcing","publisher":"Awful Announcing","title":"Ohio State reporter calls Jeremiah Smith a ‘petulant child’ after his visible frustration","url":"https://awfulannouncing.com/college-football/ohio-state-reporter-calls-jeremiah-smith-a-petulant-child-after-his-visible-frustration.html"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Jeremiah Smith should skip rest of Ohio State's season, former national champion says: 'Nothing to gain'","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/jeremiah-smith-should-skip-rest-of-ohio-states-season-former-national-champion-says-nothing-to-gain/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Is Jeremiah Smith’s Ohio State career over? Damien Harris makes the case","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jeremiah-smith-ohio-state-career-024643832.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"A frustrated Jeremiah Smith yelling toward sideline summed up Oregon loss","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/frustrated-jeremiah-smith-yelling-toward-030510649.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Analyst Predicts Jeremiah Smith Has Played His Last Snap for Ohio State","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/analyst-predicts-jeremiah-smith-played-072329154.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"‘We just watched Jeremiah Smith play his last snap at Ohio State’: Analyst says Jeremiah Smith is ‘done’ after Oregon loss","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/just-watched-jeremiah-smith-play-114515460.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"“We Just Watched Jeremiah Smith Play His Last Snap at Ohio State”: 2x Alabama Champ Claims Buckeyes Star Is Done for the Season After Oregon Loss","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/just-watched-jeremiah-smith-play-121313686.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Former Alabama RB Damien Harris has blunt take on Jeremiah Smith after Oregon loss","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/former-alabama-rb-damien-harris-235514907.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}