It used to be universally known that one of the things every college football team needed to be successful was a veteran quarterback under center.
Those days are long gone.
We have seen a plethora of first-year starting quarterbacks step into the spotlight recently and have immediate success, leading their respective teams to national title games. It happened right before our very eyes in 2014, when the duo of J.T. Barrett and Cardale Jones stepped in for Braxton Miller and led Ohio State to the first championship of the College Football Playoff era.
For the first time since that title run four years ago, Ohio State will trot out a first-year starting quarterback in Dwayne Haskins, with a little help from Tate Martell.