Ohio State guard Billy Price became the fourth Buckeye to earn first-team All-American honors, when he joined center Pat Elflein and safety Malik Hooker on the American Football Coaches Association No. 1 squad today.Price, a fourth-year junior who flipped from left guard the past couple of seasons to right guard this year, previously had been named on second teams of several other squads, including the Walter Camp, Associated Press and Sporting News. Price and Elflein have started 40 straight games on the OSU line, including the 12 games this season in which the Buckeyes – headed to a College Football Playoff semifinal vs. Clemson on Dec. 31 – averaged 258.3 yards rushing, ninth best in the nation. Elflein and Hooker, who in his first year as a starter rose to lead OSU in interceptions with six, including school season and career records for interceptions returned for touchdown with three, were named to…
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