When #QBgeddon raged last summer, it was marked by congeniality between its contestants. Sure, Cardale Jones and J.T. Barrett were trying to rip dreams form each other's hands, but there was no reason they couldn't be friends while doing so. It was an honest friendship that prevails to this day.
The last time Ohio State saw a quarterback derby of that magnitude—fall of 2005—it didn't go as smoothly. Though the unheralded, last-minute signee Troy Smith would eventually supplant blue-chip Justin Zwick and win a Heisman Trophy, their rivalry almost culminated with a showdown in a Columbus parking lot.