C0LUMBUS, Ohio — The last time that, for sure, the best quarterback in the Big Ten wasn’t an Ohio State Buckeye, it was Russell Wilson. That was 2011, and Ohio State was playing true freshman Braxton Miller, and Wilson was playing one year as a transfer at Wisconsin on his way to becoming an NFL franchise quarterback. Head-to-head in that chaotic season of OSU suspensions, Miller and the Buckeye still beat Wilson and the Badgers. But Wilson clearly was the guy. Terrelle Pryor was supposed to be in his senior season at Ohio State, and Wilson was supposed to be finishing out his career at North Carolina State, but neither of those things happened, and that led to Wilson winning the Big Ten’s Quarterback of the Year Award the first time they handed it out. Michigan State’s Kirk Cousins actually led the conference in passing yards that season, but Wilson…
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