If Trey Sermon plants his own flag in Ohio Stadium, it will be much more popular with Ohio State fans than the last such endeavor in which he played a role. Sermon, a graduate transfer from Oklahoma, announced Sunday he will play his final season of college football for Ohio State, where as a Sooners’ freshman in 2017 he scored a touchdown and led his team in rushing in the famous Baker Mayfield flag-plant game. Now it’ll be the Buckeyes that Sermon tries to make a mark with given a playing time opportunity widened by J.K. Dobbins’ departure for the NFL and Master Teague’s unspecified injury on the first day of spring practice. Teague’s return for fall is anything but a certainty — as is the season, at this point. Even if Teague is healthy, OSU’s depth chart behind him is unsettled because of inexperience and injury. That’s what convinced…
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