COLUMBUS, Ohio — Pat Elflein didn’t have to come back to Ohio State. He could be in the NFL right now. But he has been recognized over and over again for his elite-level play, most recently on Thursday night when he won the Rimington Trophy, which is given annually to the nation’s best center. “It’s unbelievable,” Elflein said Tuesday. “It’s somewhere I never thought I’d be. “It couldn’t work out any better. Coming back, personally I wanted to be up for the Rimington, I wanted to win the Rimington, be an All-American and get a Buckeye tree, some of the great traditions here. And now all of that is set out in front of me. “We’re playing for a national championship in the playoff, so you couldn’t write it any better.” A fifth-year senior who is in his first year playing center, Elflein became Ohio State’s first national award winner…
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