Jeremiah Smith caught 12 passes for a career-high 217 yards and four touchdowns as No. 7 Ohio State beat Illinois 42-19 in both teams’ Big Ten opener. His scores included a 72-yard reception and a contested toe-tap catch in the end zone.
Smith also passed 3,000 career receiving yards, becoming the first Ohio State receiver to reach that mark. He had broken the school career receiving-yards record the previous week, reaching 2,958 yards and surpassing Michael Jenkins’s previous mark of 2,898.
