COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The final couple minutes were ticking off the clock, most of the starters had long checked out of the game and the score never even mattered in the first place.
It would have been easy for Ohio State to just move on when the deep shot to the back of the end zone slipped away from Torrance Gibson and dropped to the turf, and most of the fans left at the Horseshoe late in the spring game hardly seemed to care.
But in the ongoing development of the converted quarterback to wide receiver, every rep counts.