CLEVELAND, Ohio — “Goliath Returns,” cried the Omaha World-Herald in 2017. The headline was so alarmist, it could have been about Godzilla. Miscast not in the slightest, Ohio State won, 56-14, plowing a furrow through the Nebraska Cornhuskers that dwarfed anything by pioneers busting up the prairie sod. You know what they say: Big life, big stage, Big Ten, bigger Bucks. Yet, when Ohio State won its only two consensus national championships in the last 50 years, Goliath was more like David. Ohio State was a double-digit underdog when David, played by Craig Krenzel, was the game’s Most Valuable Player, and Ohio State bulls-eyed Miami’s noggin for the 2002 title. Cardale Jones played the part in 2014 as a third-string quarterback whose arm could turn a rock into something out of a ballistics test. Krenzel was big lumbering guy and Jones was a bigger, rumbling guy. Neither fit the underdog…
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