The No. 1 Buckeyes, who have soared through this late summer and autumn with so few of the football inconveniences that snag most others, reached 12-0 with their 56-27 win during which even agony proved temporary. As they ratcheted up their two-year tally over their loathed rival to 118-66, and did so before 112,071 at Michigan Stadium, an injury to quarterback Justin Fields somehow wound up turning into something storybook. In the third quarter, Fields’s left leg got the brunt of a falling tight end, whereupon he stayed down, got up, gave way to backup Chris Chugunov and disappeared into the injury tent. “I said a prayer, real quick, just to make sure he was all right,” offensive lineman Jonah Jackson said. Befitting a season in which a snag becomes a shrug, then, Fields merely attained a new brace for his aggravated left-knee sprain, returned seven plays later, rolled out…
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