Ohio State coach Urban Meyer will tell quarterbacks J.T. Barrett and Cardale Jones on Saturday who will start the season opener for the defending national champions Monday night at Virginia Tech.
But Meyer said Thursday on his weekly radio call-in show on 97.1 The Fan that he will not announce his decision to the team. Presumably the Buckeyes will find out with the rest of the college football world, when OSU takes its first offensive snap in Blacksburg, Va.
“We met yesterday with the quarterbacks. I told them who was ahead,” Meyer said on The Fan. “It’s so close that both [should] be ready.