October 26, 2024

Another 5-star quarterback has joined the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry, but has that rating ever really mattered in The Game?

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Five-star quarterbacks have become embedded in the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry over the past two decades since the first became part of the rivalry, but it’s meant two very different things to the two sides. © David Petkiewicz cleveland.com/cleveland.com/TNS Quarterback Jadyn Davis was one of the many possible OSU football recruits to attend the Oregon at Ohio State football game on September 11, 2021. Since the Buckeyes landed Justin Zwick in 2002, there have been eight quarterbacks classified as five-star recruits to choose Columbus or Ann Arbor with Jadyn Davis becoming the ninth on Friday afternoon by choosing the Wolverines. Then there are two others who’ve come by way of the transfer portal with Justin Fields and Shea Patterson to push that number up to 11. Both have had plenty of success bringing in five-star quarterbacks, but only Ohio State has had much problem taking that talent and…

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