'We willed ourselves to win': Ohio State's Will Howard gets revenge against Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — One by one, the bodies caromed and ricocheted off Will Howard, the Ohio State quarterback whose skin was coated with sweat and dirt and the grass-stained remnants of the sweetest slide he's ever slid, the one that sealed a victory over a program he once dreamed of representing. Seven days had passed since Howard, a former three-star prospect from Downington, Pennsylvania, a western suburb of Philadelphia, boldly proclaimed how much the impending matchup between the Buckeyes and No. 3 Penn State meant to him, how he'd grown up rooting for the Nittany Lions and viewed this trip to Beaver Stadium as a homecoming. "They didn't think I was good enough," Howard said in reference to Penn State's coaching staff during a postgame news conference in late October. "But I guess we'll see next week if I was."
