7:00 AM ET SINCE HIGH SCHOOL, Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud has kept a routine after every game, no matter the outcome. “For an hour, when the families are mingling and eating, he won’t eat, he won’t really talk, until he’s reviewed all the footage of that [game] film,” Stroud’s mother, Kimberly, told ESPN. “I’m like, ‘Son, why don’t you just put that away?’ [He replies], ‘No, this is what I have to do.'” By late afternoon Nov. 26, Stroud had started his painstaking probe of Ohio State’s 45-23 home loss to Michigan. The Buckeyes hadn’t lost to the Wolverines at Ohio Stadium since 2000, also the last time they had dropped consecutive games to their archrival. Stroud, born in 2001, had 349 passing yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions, after passing for 394 yards and two scores in last year’s defeat at Michigan Stadium. He wasn’t the reason…
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