October 7, 2024

Ohio State tries to shed melancholy of frustrating Michigan losses with national championship hopes renewed

Getty Images COLUMBUS, Ohio — If the walls could talk at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, well, they would actually scream right about now. Ohio State defensive end JT Tuimoloau knows. He not only walks past the pictures of the legends in the team’s football facility each day, he hears from those players directly. “We’re representing ourselves, but we’re also representing our past, the dudes that came before us,” Tuimoloau said. “… Being able to talk some of these dudes who came before me, I always call them ‘Wall Guys.’ If you’re on the wall in the facility, you have a really good career. The standard obviously was not met [last year].” For a team favored to advance to another College Football Playoff led by a coach with the game’s best winning percentage — a program with as much money and support as any in the nation — something feels…

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