COLUMBUS, Ohio — Three observations from Ohio State football’s 52-21 victory over Wisconsin in the Buckeyes’ Big Ten Conference opener. 1. Tanner McCalister watched Ohio State cornerbacks JK Johnson and Jyaire Brown prepare for their first career starts and thought back to Nov. 2, 2019. On that date, McCalister was an Oklahoma State sophomore pressed into his first career start by an injury above him on the depth chart. Despite his nerves, he recorded six tackles against Texas Christian that night. McCalister, a veteran of 45 games with the Cowboys and Buckeyes, made sure the young cornerbacks knew they were not being asked to win that game by themselves. “I went up to then and just told them, ‘You don’t have to do anything special. You’ve just got to do your job,’ ” said McCalister, who joined OSU as a graduate transfer last winter. “Sometimes when you’re young, you think,…
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