Despite not playing in the Big Ten championship game last season, Ohio State managed to make it into the College Football Playoff thanks to the selection committee. In the closing minute of the third quarter of the Peach Bowl against Georgia, Marvin Harrison Jr., the star Buckeyes wide receiver, was knocked out of the game with an apparent head injury when he attempted to catch a pass in the back of the end zone on third-and-goal. Before that play, Harrison caught five passes for 106 yards and two touchdowns. The Buckeyes lost to the eventual-champion Bulldogs 42-41. “It was a lot of ups and downs, really,” Harrison told the Tribune last month. “The first game (was) a night game against Notre Dame. A lot of alumni are there. LeBron James is there. Not that it was a terrible game, but the game didn’t really go how (we) wanted it to…
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