Nearly three decades after his final season at Ohio State, the brilliance of Orlando Pace at the collegiate level remains unrivaled.
Pace's 1996 and his Buckeye playing career across three seasons serve as arguably the highpoint for any offensive lineman in recent college football history. His top-five finish in Heisman Trophy voting during his junior year still holds distinction as just one of three for offensive linemen in the sport's two-platoon era dating back to the mid-60s. He remains the only lineman to win the Big Ten's Graham-George Offensive Player of the Year award since its inception 36 years ago, as well as the only two-time winner of the Rotary Lombardi Award at any position in its 55-year existence.