STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — About 150 miles from here, through the Allegheny Mountains and down Interstate 76, there is a tiny town about one hour west of Philadelphia.
You’ve probably never heard of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, and if you have heard of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, it’s probably because of Auntie Anne’s, the pretzel shop franchise founded there.
There is something else from Downingtown — someone else, in fact.
Will Howard, the starting quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes, grew up there, a kid who dreamed of playing for Penn State, who never got an offer from the university, who went to Kansas State and, then, returned for the first time on Saturday to a roaring, white-blanketed Beaver Stadium in a Big Ten showdown between the No.