COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State calls them one-inch throws, reflecting the small margin for error needed to succeed in the deep middle of the field. The Buckeyes have their quarterbacks practice the touch needed to drop a ball over linebackers and in front of safeties by throwing over nets in practice. Saturday, the net was replaced by one of the best defenders in the Big Ten. And OSU quarterback C.J. Stroud still made it. “He delivered on that throw,” Ryan Day said Tuesday of Stroud. “That was a big-time throw.” One inch was about how far away the best linebacker in the Big Ten came from breaking up a 32-yard pass that instead became Stroud’s most impressive completion of the season. For Indiana’s Micah McFadden, that play exemplified his game against the most effective offense in the nation — a bevy of maybe plays prevented by the Ohio State Buckeyes…
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