COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State football fans eagerly await the resolution of a three-way quarterback competition to determine who takes the season-opening snap against Minnesota on Sept. 2. Those fans also remember the last time the Buckeyes went down this road, and how the final answer at the time did not end the debate. We revisited the spring of 2018 in Friday’s episode of Buckeye Talk. In another installment of BuckeyeFly Effect — a take on the concept of unintended consequences known as the butterfly effect — we imagined a world in which Urban Meyer and Ryan Day chose Joe Burrow over Dwayne Haskins. Haskins re-wrote OSU’s passing records and left after one season as the starter to become a first-round NFL Draft pick. Burrow transferred to LSU, had a better season in 2018 than many remember, then erupted for perhaps the greatest season in history in his Heisman Trophy…
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