COLUMBUS, Ohio — As the fate of the whole national college football season teetered in the balance across four hard hours, two ambitious top-three teams functioned through impossible tension under gray skies on Saturday in Ohio Stadium. Somehow, it figured that the whole scrap would come down to a pivotal fraction of a perilous inch.The fraction came as No. 2 Ohio State and its daredevil coach, Urban Meyer, eschewed a field goal try in the second overtime while trailing No. 3 Michigan by 27-24 with fourth down and something less than a yard to go. Aiming to win while sparing a jittery kicker, quarterback J.T. Barrett took the snap and headed just left. Michigan safety Delano Hill met and toppled him, and Barrett lunged into the kind of pile of humanity that exemplified this instant classic. [Complete major-college football scoreboard] Jim Harbaugh, the coach who has returned Michigan to utmost…
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