
It’s not easy to play football at the Division 1 level. It’s even harder to play quarterback in a Power 5 conference. And then there is the pressure cooker that is being the starting quarterback at The Ohio State University. And C.J. Stroud has handled it all with class and dignity.
Players come to Ohio State knowing they will be under the proverbial microscope and still choose to do so knowing what the expectations are. The Buckeyes were the only show in town for more than a century and so the passion runs deep. Sometimes at a nauseating level.