Updated at 2:23 p.m. ET COLUMBUS, Ohio – “The Spin” is in at Ohio State. Braxton Miller’s 53-yard touchdown run in a 42-24 win against Virginia Tech — punctuated with a spin move past two defenders — spawned the latest social media phenomenon on the Ohio State campus. Students are busting their best spin move out at class. How can you see it? MORE: SN Week 2 picks | SN Power Poll | Is the SEC that good? Let Ohio State tackle Chase Farris count the ways. “I watched it on Vine, on Instagram, on Twitter, on Snapchat, on the Ohio State Snapchat,” Farris said after Wednesday’s practice. Miller hasn’t seen the play in question as much. He doesn’t have cable, but his phone didn’t stop well into Tuesday. “It’s a cool thing,” Miller said. “With everybody watching the game on Monday night, it hit me like, ‘Dang, everybody is hitting me up.'” “The Spin” is just the beginning of Miller’s switch to H-back/receiver and its impact on the Buckeyes’ offense. Ohio State coach Urban Meyer is hand-crafting perhaps his most-dangerous offensive playmaker yet. How does Miller impact the game now? Let Meyer count the ways. “The interesting thing about our offense is a guy like Braxton touched the ball four different ways,” Meyer said. “He got a direct snap at quarterback, got it handed to him as a running back, he got it pitched to him as a jet sweep guy and he got it thrown to him as a wide receiver.” Miller hasn’t thrown a pass yet, but remember when he told The Columbus Dispatch he was the “best athlete in college football” in July? That leads to a couple more head-spinning realizations: — Miller finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting in 2012 and ninth in 2013. …
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