COLUMBUS, Ohio — We repeated it so much it became one of the major cliches of the college football season. Ohio State football’s biggest opponent this season would be the coronavirus itself. Until Wednesday night, the No. 3 Buckeyes were both undefeated on the field and mostly unaffected by COVID-19. Head team physician Dr. James Borchers said Saturday that Ohio State had “essentially zero cases” of COVID-19 prior to this week. Yet by Friday night, athletic department personnel said it was clear they could not both play Saturday’s game at Illinois and mitigate further spread within the program. Ohio State coach Ryan Day, the program’s only publicly known positive case, described only one symptom Saturday — “an extremely heavy heart.” Since the start of the season he had candidly described the daily dread of waiting for the next batch of test results. Would one infected player slip through the testing…
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