It’s been nine months since Ohio State lost to Clemson in the Fiesta Bowl, but Chris Olave still hasn’t gotten over it.
The unusual offseason hasn’t made it any easier to get over the mistake he made on Dec. 28, when he broke off his route thinking Justin Fields was scrambling, leading to a game-sealing interception that punched Clemson’s ticket to the national championship game while ending Ohio State’s season. He and the rest of his teammates have had to wait longer to play another game and start to wash that bad taste out of their mouths, and it was especially difficult for Olave to block that play out of his mind during the months the Buckeyes were away from campus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.