Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Does it feel like you can already see what's coming?

The freshman quarterback is coming along just fine, suddenly capable of leading a point-a-minute offense even while he's cooling off on the sideline for a sizable chunk of the garbage minutes.

Impressive, especially since Stroud sat out the Tulsa game to rest his shoulder. You might not remember but Cardale Jones appeared in four of the Buckeyes' first six games of 2014 (not just the last four). So Barrett did his fair share of cooling his heels too.

Their redshirt freshman seasons' respective second halves appear to be frighteningly similar in how they're laid out. Two B1G West challenges, a Halloween week banger with Penn State, an ominous…