Braxton Miller celebrates on of his two touchdowns against Virginia Tech on Monday night. (Geoff Burke/USA Today Sports)BLACKSBURG, Va. — Here’s a front-runner that ought to charm a country — except, of course, for large chunks of Michigan. To an interloper, these Ohio State Buckeyes circa 2015 are a revelation. When you visit them downstairs in stadiums, they’re conversational, listenable, engaging, effusive, contagious and even witty. “The culture, I want to bottle it,” Coach Urban Meyer said of his team. “It’s really good.” To objective American hearts, Ohio State, like many football kingdoms through time, might have seemed cold, impersonal, opaque. Woody Hayes’s frequent gracelessness might have overshadowed his admirable curiosity, his intellect and his fondness for academia. Jim Tressel’s Buckeyes of the early 2000s might have felt clenched and nongregarious. Maybe it’s hard, anyway, to embrace unanimous No. 1 teams and other mastodons…
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