Before catching six passes for 103 yards and two touchdowns in Ohio State’s first-round College Football Playoff rout of Tennessee, Jeremiah Smith issued wide receivers coach Brian Hartline a plea. “I said, ‘Coach, I want you to challenge me this week.

The Oregon Ducks escaped with a win over the Ohio State Buckeyes earlier this season in a game that had some controversial calls. Ohio State receiver Jeremiah Smith called the infamous offensive pass interference penalty a "crazy call.

On a field full of future high NFL draft picks on a frigid winter night, the 19-year old freshman playing in his first playoff game looked the best of all of them. Watching Ohio State freshman receiver Jeremiah Smith race past Tennessee defenders trying to stop him in one-on-one coverage was perhaps the most impressive performance of any freshman this season.