Jamie Squire/Getty Images There are similarities between this year’s Ohio State football team and the 2014 edition that ripped off an unexpected run to the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship. That ’14 squad entered the year with a lot of question marks, replacing its top linebacker in Ryan Shazier, a first-round cornerback in Bradley Roby, its top rusher in running back Carlos Hyde and its most productive receiver in Corey Brown. This year’s Buckeyes face that challenge and then some as they work to find eight new starters on each side of the ball. But as the team grinds its way through fall camp and toward its season opener against Bowling Green on September 3, head coach Urban Meyer is drawing parallels to his title-winning Buckeyes. Jennifer Stewart/Getty Images “I think 2014 was the template that everybody wants,” Meyer said of his team at Big Ten media days, according to Bill Rabinowitz of the Columbus Dispatch. “J.T. Barrett was buried in the depth chart, Darron Lee, Eli Apple, Zeke Elliott, Mike Thomas—those guys were no-names, and they became very good throughout the course of 2014.” That’s where the biggest challenge lies for Meyer and the Buckeyes. The potential is there—Ohio State is…
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