October 18, 2024

Can Alabama’s Mac Jones the 2019 version of Ohio State football’s Cardale Jones?: Buckeye Breakfast


COLUMBUS, Ohio — During the 2014-15 season, Ohio State lost its starting quarterback Braxton Miller, then lost its back up quarterback in J.T. Barrett. The Buckeyes then looked to third-stringer Cardale Jones during their most important stretch of the season. Jones went on to lead them to three-straight wins in the Big Ten Championship, College Football Playoff Semifinal and the National Championship game. That included wins over Wisconsin, Alabama and Oregon. Now the Crimson Tide will try to mimic that formula in 2019 after losing its starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa to a season-ending hip injury. Mac Jones will be Alabama’s starters for the rest of the season and Forbes’ David Ching detailed how he can repeat the Buckeyes’ successful run. Here’s how that journey should start according to Ching: “The redshirt sophomore quarterback needs to lead Alabama’s offense into Auburn on Nov. 30 and humiliate the Tigers at Jordan-Hare Stadium.…

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