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OSU guard Downing starts at the top


11:10 a.m.

COLUMBUS - Ohio State right guard T.J. Downing is a 305-pound bucket of attitude, and the senior is even perfecting a mohawk for Saturday’s opener with Northern Illinois.

“Come Saturday I’ll tighten up the sides and thin it down and it’ll look nice,” he said. “Nothing conservative here.”

The hair is an extension of his outlook. He wants to feel like the success of the Buckeyes’ offense boils down to the line’s ability to manhandle the Huskies. It’ll be the first time starting as a group for sophomore left tackle Alex Boone, senior left guard Tim Schafer, senior center Doug Datish, Downing and right tackle Kirk Barton.

“It’s hard putting five guys all together on the same page,” Downing said. “Sometimes you get a breakdown or miss a certain block, but you want to make somebody else pay for it. If I slip off a block, you don’t want to hesitate. You want to go after another guy and not think about it.”

Downing oozes confidence, happy to take on the team’s preseason No. 1 ranking.

“I want the bull’s-eye on my back, because it’ll give me more attention when I’m taking people down,” he said.

But he’s a ready part of the offensive game plan.

“Yeah, you want to hurt people and punish them and put them on their backs, but you have to do your job,” Downing said. “On the offensive line, we always talk about controlled chaos. It’s punishing up there, but if you get too whacked out and go berserk trying to hurt people, you’ll mess up your assignment. So we won’t let anyone take us out of our game.”
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