McCord started in place of an injured C.J. Stroud, while Miller threw the first passes of his college career. Just like in Ohio State’s season opener at Minnesota, head coach Ryan Day had to have a conversation with his first-time starting quarterback in the early going of the Buckeyes’ 59-7 win over Akron on Saturday night Only this time, instead of it being redshirt freshman C.J. Stroud following a second-quarter interception, it was true freshman Kyle McCord, who did not complete a pass during the opening drive of the game, which included a backwards pass that sailed out of bounds and resulted in a 6-yard loss. “(I told him to) just take a deep breath, find the speed of the game and just trust your eyes, trust your reads. You’ve had a lot of preparation to get here,” Day said during his postgame press conference. “And then I thought he…
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