COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State football opens the season Sept. 2 at Minnesota. We are counting down the best 50 players Ohio State will face on that 2021 schedule. No. 49: Teon Dollard, running back, Akron 5-foot-11, 205 pounds, senior 2020 stats: 112 carries for 666 rushing yards in six games, for an average of 5.9 yards per carry and 111 yards per game. What he has done: Dollard gave the Zips a boost as a junior college transfer in 2020, which isn’t easy to do. Akron is 1-17 during a rebuild the last two seasons since coach Tom Arth took over for Terry Bowden, who went 35-52 in seven seasons, with two bowl appearances. Dollard arrived in 2020 after playing at Alabama A&M in 2018 and Independence Community College in Kansas in 2019. Akron ranked 119th in passing offense last season, so Dollard really carried the load as the…
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