If you came into Saturday’s OSU-West Virginia game looking for an emphatic Heisman statement from the Chuba Hubbard camp, you were probably disappointed — at least early.
Chuba didn’t score a touchdown for the first time this year, he turned in his second-worst per carry average of the season (4.1), and he didn’t look like the nation’s leading rush for most of the first three quarters.
But he was the single most important player to OSU’s success, just like he’s been all year.
The mission of the Heisman trust is to recognize “the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity.