No. 1 Oregon, No. 8 Ohio State meet for ‘game of the century’ in the Rose Bowl

LOS ANGELES — The nightmare replays, every so often, in Will Howard’s mind. Too often.

He can’t escape it. He doesn’t want to escape it. The video, from the failures of a cold October night in Eugene, has played in Ohio State’s facility on their trip to the Rose Bowl this week. Howard, the Buckeyes’ senior quarterback, already has it seared into his synapses from months before, dissecting the footage of that loss to Oregon over and over and over again during the bye week that followed.

The thought persisted...