I wish I had more football for you. But when every sentence of every spring game evaluation has to begin with “quarterbacks weren’t allowed to be tackled,” well, here we go again. The Overhyping of Spring. The games themselves are more events — jury-rigged for television and fan experience — than strategy. In fact, coaches go out of their way not to show anything of substance. Especially when opponent scouting begins with firing up the cable box. But here we are already wrapping up the spring of 2017. There were 27 spring games last Saturday. There are a season-high 32 this coming Saturday. Sprinkle in six week-day games this week and that means in an eight-day span more than half of FBS will have played a spring game. Some observations from the weekend … Ohio State Buckeyes Urban Meyer is driven to prove the shutout loss to Clemson Tigers in…
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