Ohio State football: Boren supremacy about to end

Columbus >> An era will come to an end this weekend when Ohio State travels to Michigan for the regular-season finale for both teams. Jacoby Boren is the last of three brothers to play in the bitter rivalry between the Buckeyes and the Wolverines. With brothers Justin (2009-10) and Zach (2009-12) and Jacoby (2012-15), a Boren has been on the Ohio State roster for seven straight years. That run ends next season, as there are no more sons for Mike and Hope Boren — a pair of former student-athletes at Michigan — remain. Advertisement “It is humbling to just see like my dad, Justin and Zach play in this game and it is humbling for me to kind of be in the same footsteps and know that we’ve had a great opportunity,” Jacoby, the Buckeyes’ starting center, said. “Not many people get to play in this game and to know that we have had four people in my family is humbling. “It is a great experience and it is the best rivalry game around so I am just thankful to be a part of it.” That there have been seven straight years of Borens on the Ohio State roster would have been deemed unfathomable a decade ago. After all, father Mike was the second-leading tackler in Michigan football history in 1983 with 332 tackles when his career with the Wolverines wrapped up. Mother Hope was a track-and-field specialist with the Wolverines. And when Justin signed with Michigan out of his prep career in Pickerington, the Boren pipeline seemed set up for Ann Arbor. But a bitter turn of events changed that in 2008, when Justin left Michigan in part because, as Justin wrote in a statement declaring his departure from the program, “I have great trouble accepting that those family values have eroded in just a few months,” at Michigan…

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