COLUMBUS, Ohio — After one mostly silent week in the wake of a humbling home loss to Michigan, Ohio State football players found their voice again Friday night. © Joshua Gunter/cleveland.com/TNS Ohio State Buckeyes wide receiver Emeka Egbuka celebrates with fellow wide receiver Julian Fleming after pulling in a pass for a touchdown over Iowa Hawkeyes defensive back Sebastian Castro in the second half of play. They started chiming in around midnight, as Utah put the finishing touches on a 47-24 thumping of USC in the Pac-12 championship game. Nothing will be official until Sunday, but the Buckeyes knew what that likely meant for them. “Get back time,” receiver Emeka Egbuka wrote on Twitter. None of the previous 118 incarnations of The Game were followed with a coda like this. From here on in — thanks to a combination of a divisionless Big Ten and playoff expansion in 2024 —…
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