COLUMBUS, Ohio — Matt Jones exhibited patience and perseverance to win a starting job on Ohio State football’s offensive line for the first time this season. It was going to take a lot to keep him out of the season opener against Notre Dame. Then he spent much of last week battling, in his words, “a little fever.” How little of a fever was he dealing with the night before the game? “It was 102 (degrees),” Jones said. In the same way the 6-4, 315-pound Jones is not a little guy, that’s not a little fever. Jones, though, played nearly every snap in the 21-10 victory. He contributed to a run game that averaged 4.9 yards per carry and put the game on its back in the fourth quarter. Jones needed extra hydration and an IV bag prior to the game to make it through the top-five matchup. Yet he…
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