Jack Sawyer’s Scoop-and-Score: The Play That Turned Him into an Ohio State Legend
Confetti rained down on him as he stood with raised arms and shut eyes, seeming to say, “See? I told you I could do it!” That had always been a dream come true for Sawyer, who as a kid in a scarlet-and-gray jersey played catch behind his yard. A dream came into reality during a Friday night college football playoff semifinal at the Cotton Bowl. Changing of GameWith just more than two minutes remaining, Texas was an inch away from tying the game and maybe heading into overtime. But Sawyer was thinking otherwise. He came off like an action-movie superhero and zipped around Texas’s right tackle before he launched himself at quarterback Quinn Ewers, his former…