By Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) — Maybe 300 rushing yards should be the goal for Ohio State. Last week, 174 yards on the ground, including 141 yards on 26 carries (5.4 average) from the running backs, wasn’t close to enough in the loss at Miami.

“When our passing game is not on, our running game has to be that much better,” Ohio State junior fullback Zach Boren said. “I was telling the running backs, ‘Maybe if we would have run for 300 yards, we would have won the game.’ ”

So the relative success of the run game was “definitely rewarding,” Boren said, “but we need to do more with it.”

Ohio State center Mike Brewster felt the offensive line played its best game of the season at Miami, and right now, the offensive line is what the OSU offense has to lean on.

“Sometimes, that’s all we can control, and we just want to make sure we’re doing the best we can,” Brewster said.

Colorado allowed….

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