COLUMBUS, Ohio — Over a decade later, former Ohio State lineman Bryant Browning quickly recalls the sensory experience of two September weekends on the west coast. In Seattle in 2007, Browning witnessed the spectacle of Pike’s Place Fish Market, with the fishmongers tossing around the day’s catch like quarterbacks and receivers. A year later in Los Angeles, he saw Denzel Washington and other celebrities on the sideline at the Coliseum. Those road games carried very different stakes and intrigue. Ohio State blasted a bad Washington team in 2007 en route to a berth in the BCS National Championship game. A loaded USC team rolled through the Buckeyes the following year. Yet Browning said the experience of both of those games — the travel, the camaraderie and the competition — are inseparable from the experience of playing football at Ohio State. “Those are opportunities you never get back,” said Browning, who…
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