As Ohio State suffered its third straight loss to Michigan last November, all Lathan Ransom could do was watch from afar.
Because he had suffered a season-ending Lisfranc injury in his left foot four weeks earlier in Ohio State’s win over Wisconsin, Ransom didn’t make the trip to Ann Arbor, where the Buckeyes were defeated 30-24 by the Wolverines. But he felt just as much pain as his teammates did as the Buckeyes’ goals slipped away from them for the third year in a row.
“It was ridiculously hard,” Ransom said of watching that game. “That's the only game I really wanted to play all year.