Ohio State will be playing Wisconsin tomorrow in the Big Ten Championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium. Taking snaps for Ohio State isn’t the player who Buckeye faithful would have expected in the beginning of the season.The player is third string QB Cardale Jones. This is because earlier in the season Braxton Miller re injured his shoulder in practice and was ruled out for the rest of this season and just this past weekend red shirt freshman J.T. Barrett fractured his ankle against Michigan.

Jones was competing for the starting job with Barrett after Miller was injured. Ever since Barrett won he has put up numbers that put him on the radar for the Heisman. He brought them to an impressive 11-1 season and one spot out of the top 4 in the College Football playoff rankings. After the ankle injury Miller said in a quote to ESPN regarding Jones:

“I honestly feel like if I wasn’t starting this year, Cardale would have done the same things I did this year. Cardale is that talented. He definitely can do it.”- J.T. Barrett

Wisconsin is a three-point favorite in Indianapolis. I think that it is going to be very hard for the Buckeyes to hold back Melvin Gordon from running the football through their defense. If Ohio State comes through to win this game they can have a chance to be in the College Football Playoff, if any of the current top four teams lose in their respective conference championship games.  It will be very interesting to see the result of tomorrows games. If Cordale Jones and the Buckeyes defense can pull a rabbit out of a hat and beat Wisconsin then the selection committee will have a hard time deciding the top four FBS teams.

Looking beyond the question of what bowl game Ohio State will play in is, who will be the starting quarterback week 1 of the 2015 season, Braxton Miller or J.T. Barrett?

Right now I can see Urban Meyer starting J.T. Barrett next fall after coming off such a great season and because he will be a sophomore. But what about Braxton Miller? He said right after his injury in late August that he will return to Columbus in 2015 for graduate school. This decision made sense then but now that his starting job is in jeopardy he may want to rethink what his path to getting in the NFL will be. Miller isn’t an NFL caliber quarterback in the pocket like Barrett is, so if he wants to play in the NFL he will have to change positions for his final year of college at Ohio State. Another thing that can happen is he can transfer to a school where he can be the starting quarterback and develop his passing game before the 2016 draft like Russell Wilson did in 2011.

What ever happens will most  likely result in Ohio State having a quarterback that will lead them to another season being in the playoff conversation because of the options they have at QB.