INDIANAPOLIS — Ohio State football defensive end Chase Young has been the nation’s most dominant player in this season, but for the past two weeks, his numbers haven’t shown it. In the first nine games of the season, Young recorded 29 total tackles, 19.5 for loss, and a nation-leading 16.5 sacks. But Michigan discovered that the formula for neutralizing the pass rusher was consistency: Never let a play go by where he isn’t seeing multiple offensive linemen. Wisconsin didn’t do that the first time it faced the Buckeyes, and it led to a record day by Young, vaulting him into the Heisman Trophy discussion. But smart people learn from their mistakes, and the Badgers applied what they learned the first time around and combined it with what they saw the Wolverines do. The result was Young finding himself in situations like this: And this: The game plans of Michigan and…
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