Ohio State’s 2016 football team boasted something for the first time in nearly a decade: a national award winner.Pat Elflein took home the Rimington Trophy as the nation’s top center, an award presented to him on Dec. 8. Before Elflein, the last national award winner was cornerback Malcolm Jenkins, who took home the Thorpe Award as the country’s top defensive back in 2008. Clemson embarrassed the Buckeyes 31-0 in the Fiesta Bowl a little more than three weeks after Elflein received the Rimington, ending Urban Meyer’s fifth season with an 11-2 record. Elflein also won the 2016 Rimington-Pace Offensive Lineman of the Year as the Big Ten’s best player in the trenches on that side of the ball. He wasn’t the only member of the Buckeyes to take home top conference recognition, though. The Big Ten named J.T. Barrett the Griese-Brees Quarterback of the Year, running back Mike Weber its…
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