In case you missed the news of the day, the Cincinnati Bengals are going to the Super Bowl by way of beating the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in overtime.
However, if it had not been for a few former Ohio State players, the Bengals wouldn’t have been there. There are five former OSU players on Cincinnati’s side if you count Joe Burrow, and many of them had a hand in how the game played out at the end.
The Bengals erased an 18-point deficit and it all started with a stop by Eli Apple when the Chiefs got a little greedy trying to score a touchdown before the half instead of settling for a field goal. Apple came up big by tackling Tyreke Hill in bounds short of the end zone to force time to run out. It seemed somewhat inconsequential at the time, but it kept the lead at 21-10 Chiefs heading into halftime.
