Ohio State is certainly trending towards starting true freshman Luke Fahey on Saturday against the USC Trojans. If he does start, he will be just the fifth ever quarterback in Buckeyes' history to start a football game as a true freshman.
That stat was gathered by the 11 Warriors team. Of the current four, the Buckeyes have a 3-1 record in those games.
The combination of Terrelle Pryor, Braxton Miller, and Kyle McCord all started their college careers with a 1-0 record. The lone loss by a true freshman quarterback was all the way back in 1978, when Art Schlichter lost 19-0 to Penn State.
It is shocking to believe that out of all the elite signal callers that the Buckeyes have had, only these four have started as a true freshman.
Luke Fahey has the opportunity to join that group on Saturday. If he is able to win this football game at the start, he will join two of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the program, Miller and Pyror.
Fahey certainly has an advantage over each of those guys. Fahey has already gotten some game action in his young career, so it won't be a totally new experience for him to be out on the field.
However, what he brings into the game with his experienc...