It's rapidly becoming time to stop questioning Ohio State about what it will do when it faces adversity and time to start crediting the Buckeyes for inflicting adversity on everyone they play.

Maybe that will happen after OSU rolled to a 38-0 halftime lead Saturday at Nebraska and coasted to a 48-7 victory.

“This doesn’t mean anything if we don’t keep it going," Ohio State coach Ryan Day said after his team advanced to 5-0, none of which have been closer than 24 points.

OSU will face its first ranked opponent next Saturday night, assuming No. 25 Michigan State remains in the Top 25 after it struggled to defeat Indiana at home.

What's more likely than a close game against the Spartans is another Saturday Night Massacre under the lights of a 7:30 p.m. kickoff in Ohio Stadium.

Nationally, people are starting to notice that OSU hasn't missed a beat without Urban Meyer and without J.T. Barrett.

Day is the perfect coach for this team at this time. He's demanding without making every day a referendum on whether his players can keep their scholarship, which might be an overstatement of the Urban Meyer era, but not by much.

Likewise, Day's play calls are expertly tapping into Fields' wide-ranging talents and the considerable abilities of the other NFL-bound athletes around him.

He scored OSU's first TD a on a 15-yard scramble, then found K.J. Hill for a 2-yard score and Austin Mack for an 18-yard TD around a pair of touchdown runs from Master Teague.

 Don't get the idea, though, that this one was all offense.

Jeffrey Okudah grabbed two interceptions in the first half, one on a diving steal at midfield on Nebraska's first series, and the other from flat on his back near the Cornhuskers goal line.

Nebraska, which put up more than 600 yards last week against Illinois, managed just 231 against a hard-hitting Buckeyes' defense.