Editor's note: This story originally was published on Dec. 18. It has been updated to reflect the College Football Playoff semifinal between Ohio State and Clemson in the Sugar Bowl (Friday, 8 p.m. ET, on ESPN/ESPN App).
IT WAS THE middle of September, and Shaun Wade sat at his kitchen table in Jacksonville, Florida, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Again. He wasn't at Ohio State, for one. He wasn't playing football at all, for another. This being 2020, football in the Big Ten, like so much else, had been derailed.