COLUMBUS, Ohio — College football programs often rise, fall or stagnate to the level of their quarterback. It has happened often at Ohio State, and in 2020, we may get proof of just how much it happened at Michigan the last two seasons. Nothing can trap a program a notch below its peak like a quarterback who is too successful to bench yet doesn’t provide any real chance of getting over the top. At a very high level, the Buckeyes encountered that with J.T. Barrett in 2016 and 2017, which contributed first to Ohio State getting shut out by Clemson in the College Football Playoff, and then to some wishing Dwayne Haskins had taken over for Barrett after the Buckeyes lost to Oklahoma in 2017. Barrett did a lot at Ohio State with wins, stats, toughness and leadership, but by the end, you could feel that maybe the Buckeyes weren’t…
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