INDIANAPOLIS — If you don’t know much about new Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones or how he’ll operate the Buckeyes offense in Saturday night’s Big Ten Championship Game vs. No. 13 Wisconsin, you’re not alone. Neither head coach really knows, either. No. 5 Ohio State lost J.T. Barrett to a broken ankle in last week’s fourth quarter. Barrett, a freshman who had taken over in August following a season-ending injury suffered by senior two-time Big Ten Player of the Year Braxton Miller, set a Big Ten record with 45 touchdowns this season. The Buckeyes offense has been humming. Now, with a conference championship and potential trip to the first College Football Playoff on the line, comes Jones, who played with the outcome in doubt for the first time in his college career in that fourth quarter vs. Michigan. “You go back and find every snap he played, evaluate the situation and dissect it,” Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen said Friday. “The Michigan game didn’t provide much help.” That makes two head coaches who lost sleep this week thinking about how ready Jones is for this. Ohio State’s Urban Meyer knows Jones well and has displayed confidence in a sophomore who left Cleveland’s Glenville High School so long ago that the old Ohio State staff actually recruited Jones. …
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