Kirk Herbstreit’s Gameplan Breakdown: OSU faces Happy Valley hostility (1:13) ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit says No. 2 Ohio State must deal with pre-snap movement and improve its vertical passing game to avoid an upset against Penn State in primetime Saturday in State College. (1:13) 12:23 AM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — As much as anything, J.T. Barrett remembers the pain. The Ohio State quarterback has plenty of other memories from the game in 2014 that truly started building his legend with the program. The noise and the White Out. The tenacious Penn State defense. The deficit in overtime. And on top of it, Barrett was waging an internal battle with a sprained knee that could have easily knocked him out of the game. There hadn’t been much evidence of Barrett’s toughness, what he might be capable of in the face of adversity or his willingness as a redshirt freshman to do whatever’s necessary to grind out a victory. By the end of the second overtime against the Nittany Lions, there were no questions for him to answer — just an injury that needed some attention. “Yeah, it was hurting pretty bad,” Barrett recalled. “I mean, it was something I…
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