Ohio State Football: 3 takeaways from victory over Nebraska

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LINCOLN, NE – OCTOBER 07: Quarterback Tanner Lee #13 of the Nebraska Cornhuskers passes around nose tackle Olive Sagapolu #99 of the Wisconsin Badgers at Memorial Stadium on October 7, 2017 in Lincoln, Nebraska. (Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images) /

3. Tanner Lee won’t start in 2017

This is a stretch but Tanner Lee will hit 20 interceptions in 2016 and will be a transfer in 2017. There’s no chance he sticks around and starts for a new head coach looking to start fresh in 2018. Lee may be the Manning Passing Academy MVP, but he’s making a lot of college defensive backs their team’s MVP when they play the Huskers.

The Huskers’ Lee has thrown 34 career interceptions and it’s only the middle of his junior season. As maligned as JT Barrett has been, he’s only thrown one this year and 22 over three and a half seasons as a Buckeye.

When a new coach takes over he wants to hit the reset button and get rid of the last coaching staff’s bad habits. Lee is one of the truest forms of why Mike Riley is out of place. Lee has been bad and isn’t getting better. That’s a bad move for a guy that was expected to fix the Husker offense upon hire.

If the new coach is Scott Frost, he’ll want a more mobile quarterback anyway and it will likely be a younger arm like he went with in Orlando.

Frost’s quarterback for UCF is sophomore McKenzie Milton who got his first work as a freshman for the 6-7 Knights. He helped UCF gain bowl eligibility in 2016 and now an undefeated record in 2017. The Huskers won’t right all their wrongs right away in Lincoln but it will be a quicker turnaround for Frost than he had at UCF.

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