COLUMBUS, Ohio — The statistics put J.T. Barrett high on the list of all kinds of football holy of holies. How can this be when the “eyeball test,” so beloved of the committee that chooses college football’s “Final Four” of playoff teams, suggests he has not improved much since his freshman year? Freshman year folklore In 2014 in popular imagination, Barrett, after a slow start, came out of Wichita Falls, Texas like a football-playing Pecos Bill, lassoing twisters and riding horses that hadn’t been broken before and immediately claiming a place in the lore of Ohio State football. Actually, it was not that way at all. Ohio State coach Urban Meyer is not into tall tales. He is into percentages. “The one thing you’re never going to hear about our quarterbacks is that they are gunslingers, kind of risk takers,” said Meyer. “We just don’t do that. That’s not the…
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