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Ohio State football notebook: Personality makes Powell popular with teammates

Safety Tyvis Powell found himself elected to office late last week, established as one of Ohio State’s six captains, and the personable junior did it without making one campaign speech.

“That was one of those things that you dream about as a kid, but I never really thought would actually happen,” Powell said. “But now that it has it’s like, wow, to have that much respect by my peers that they want me to be a leader of this team, it’s just an honor. I don’t want to do anything to let them down.”

Don’t expect that to mean his outgoing personality will change.