Pat Elflein remembers the first time he saw it. He knew what was coming first, but not last.
"I noticed it, but we had Virginia Tech first," Ohio State's starting right guard said Monday. "That's what I was focusing on."
It is the 2015 Ohio State football schedule. The slate pitted the Buckeyes with a rematch in Week 1 on Labor Day Night against the lone team it lost to in 2014, Frank Beamer's Hokies. Then, nothing really caught your eye until mid-November, when Michigan State was scheduled to visit Ohio Stadium and then the Buckeyes headed to Ann Arbor for its annual end-of-season bout with Michigan a week later.