A better end-game script could not have been written for Taylor Cornelius than the one that played out on Saturday night. Not even one written by Stephen King with a foreword from Ernest Hemingway.
After a dud of a first half from OSU’s gunslinger — 119 yards passing, two touchdowns and two awful interceptions — the fifth-year senior quarterback responded admirably in the final 30 minutes. Cornelius, as timid as most any quarterback from the outside, took on a new personality Saturday. He was in the face of West Virginia defenders on several occasions, visibly fired up and vocal, and refused to kowtow to the team that led for all but 42 seconds.