BLACKSBURG, Va. — The greatest trick play that Coach Urban Meyer has so far devised may have been letting all the focus be on who would start at quarterback when Ohio State opened the season against Virginia Tech on Monday night.
Overlooked amid the endless discussion between the merits of the sophomore J. T. Barrett and the redshirt junior Cardale Jones, who ended up starting, was Braxton Miller, a senior who had started at quarterback for two seasons and was set to start a third last year before he sustained a season-ending shoulder injury less than two weeks before the opener.