They ran an early heat of the great quarterback race yesterday in the Ohio State spring game with only one of its three serious competitors, and the day still added a few wrinkles to a picture already about as clear as a windshield in an ice storm.
The last time the public saw Cardale Jones play football, he was beating Oregon in the national championship game. This time, it saw him struggling to succeed against a Scarlet roster that comprised only half the OSU defense in a glorified practice session.
Even a spring game record crowd of 99,391 can’t turn a lackluster, anything-goes scrimmage into one of those high-stakes, high-pressure games in December and January, so it almost makes sense to summarize the postscrimmage situation this way: Jones can beat Wisconsin, Alabama and Oregon, but can he beat Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois and Western Michigan?