Ohio State center Pat Elflein answers questions during a Fiesta Bowl news conference in Scottsdale. His team will face Clemson in the game. Ohio State Buckeyes offensive lineman Pat Elflein (65) celebrates a win over Michigan State Spartans after a game at Spartan Stadium.(Photo: Mike Carter, USA TODAY Sports) PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — On a wall inside the Ohio State’s indoor practice facility at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, two dozen photographs of the team’s major award winners hang. There’s Archie Griffin and Chris Spielman and Eddie George and Orlando Pace and Troy Smith and James Laurinaitis and so many others, spanning so many years. And then, after Malcolm Jenkins, who won the Thorpe Award as the nation’s best defensive back in 2008, there are no more. What’s more surprising, someone asked Buckeyes center Pat Elflein — that there hasn’t been another photo hung despite all of Ohio State’s success,…
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