It’s Now or Never for Cardale Jones as Ohio State’s Starting Quarterback

COLUMBUS, Ohio — It looks like Cardale Jones is going to have to change his Twitter bio again.

But for how long Jones will be able to continue to lay claim to being Ohio State’s starting quarterback remains to be seen.

What we do know is that it will be Jones leading the Buckeyes offense onto the field this weekend when Ohio State hosts Western Michigan in its out-of-conference finale for the regular season.

Despite benching Jones for J.T. Barrett in the second quarter of the Buckeyes’ too-close-for-comfort 20-13 win over Northern Illinois last weekend, Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer said on Wednesday that the national championship-winning signal-caller will remain his team’s starting quarterback for at least one more week.

“The other guy has to pass him,” Meyer said of his decision to stick with Jones in the starting lineup. “And that hasn’t happened.”

Meyer’s words could hardly be viewed as a vote of confidence in Jones, nor could the fact that in the moments following the Buckeyes’ close call with the Huskies, the three-time national champion head coach couldn’t commit to either quarterback. That led to Wednesday’s proclamation that Jones would remain his starter, the third such announcement he’s had to make in the past four weeks.

For what it’s worth, Meyer’s logic in his quarterback conundrum has remained consistent. In order for Barrett—the reigning Big Ten Quarterback and National Freshman of the Year—to show that he belongs in the starting…

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