Big Ten Media Days is formally under way, and the theme of Day 1 really was a lot like the theme of the entire offseason in the conference: It was all about Michigan. Jim Harbaugh took the podium (in a full suit and Michigan hat, of course) and largely stole the show, discussing everything from words he may have invented to uptight white people. No seriously, those were points of discussion. But even after the summer of Harbaugh, and even as the Maize and Blue enters 2016 as a Vegas favorite to take home the Big Ten (and potentially national) title, what many forget is that Michigan’s biggest rival, the Ohio State University, returns plenty of talent too. They also return the single most important player in the conference. And more than anything, that’s why you can’t overlook Ohio State entering the 2016 season: They have J.T. Barrett, and nobode else in the Big Ten does. There is no quarterback battle this year: J.T. Barrett is ‘the guy’ in Columbus. For college football fans outside Columbus, it’s easy to look at everything that’s happened over the last 18 months for Barrett — a broken ankle, Cardale Jones leading Ohio State to…
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