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Jack Sawyer, Who Led the Return of Ohio State's Seniors, Gets Full-Circle Moment on CFP Stage with Game-Winning Touchdown in Cotton Bowl

Jack Sawyer, the lifeblood of Ohio State's 2024 football team, enjoyed a full-circle moment Hollywood screenwriters would be laughed out of a room for in the CFP semifinals.
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Speaking of red things, Sawyer’s been the very lifeblood of Ohio State’s 2024 football team. In about the thousandth bit of full-circle symbolism one can express about his fumble return for a touchdown, it was in the very same stadium the Buckeyes played Friday that Sawyer first hinted at his intention to bring back his fellow rising seniors from the recruiting class of 2021 for one last run.

Ohio State had just lost to Missouri 13-3 in the Cotton Bowl on Dec. 29, 2023, in another game where the offense let the defense down, but Sawyer all but revealed his intention to come back and was already talking of a campaign for others to join him. In the offseason, he spearheaded the retention of eight classmates with NFL draft stock.

“It’s almost poetic, man,” left guard-turned-left tackle Donovan Jackson, one of those classmates, said after Friday’s game. “He played a key role getting a lot of guys back. Shit, he called me every day, like three times a day to get me to come back. Seeing him do that, it’s just a testament to his hard work and (him as) a leader.”

After exploding on the scene in the second half of 2023 with a run of elite play, Sawyer has once again been Mr. November, December and now January for Ohio State. He’s racked up six sacks in his last five games. He earned Cotton Bowl Defensive Player of the Game honors by adding three tackles and two pass breakups to his scoop-and-score, giving him an unbelievable seven PBUs – as a defensive lineman – in three CFP games.

“The guy over there, I don't know if there's – I mean, sure, we can argue about it, I'm sure, who loves being a Buckeye more," Ryan Day said. "But this is somebody who grew up in Columbus, who has always wanted to be a Buckeye, who has always waited for a moment like this. So to see him get the moment that he had today, I mean, he's become like family to me. He has, to me and my wife and my kids.

Not only was Sawyer Day's first commit as a head coach, he's gone to bat for the Buckeyes' head man on numerous occasions, saying he'd commit to Day "100 times over" and calling him "the best coach in college football by far."
 
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