Deshaun Watson did it. So did Trevor Lawrence.

And just in case Ohio State quarterback CJ Stroud needs a recent, closer-to-home example: Justin Fields did, too.

Big game in a big moment.

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“They have very little to no weakness,” Stroud said of defending national champion Georgia.

That’s exactly the way he should want it. Just like Alabama and Clemson had no weakness — until they did.

Until hot quarterbacks took control when it mattered most and lifted underdog teams beyond their ceiling. Welcome to the big game moment that matters for Stroud.

There’s nothing to guess here, no secret plan for Ohio State to upset Georgia in the Peach Bowl Playoff national semifinal. We’re long past that.

This is all about Stroud: time to flip the script in a game of significance and leave no doubt.

Just like Watson and Lawrence and Fields.

“He’s built for it,” a Big Ten coach told me. “But you can rattle him with pressure. You get him off his spot, he’s a different quarterback.”

And if Georgia doesn’t?

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“He’ll eat ’em alive,” he said.

It’s Stroud’s right arm — the one that could make him the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft — that has changed games over 2 seasons.

Just not games of significance.

A career full of bloated numbers — and nothing to show for it. No Big Ten championship, no East Division title.

No win over Michigan, no growth of the Ohio State program in 2 seasons, despite a 21-3 record as a starter and multiple school passing records.

Just ridiculous production (81 TDs, 7,775 yards passing, only 12 INTs), and a meaningless Rose Bowl win over Utah. So meaningless that another trip to Pasadena this season for the Buckeyes — had they not been chosen as the last team in the Playoff — would’ve moved Stroud’s career to a statistics-filled afterthought.

Minutes after his 2nd straight loss to Michigan in The Game, after yet another blown opportunity as the favorite, Stroud stood at the podium and saw his college career as clear as the sun-splashed November day in Columbus where it all fell apart again.

“People are going to say I never won The Game, and I understand,” he said. “People are going to say I never won a Big Ten championship, and I understand. When it comes to that, I have to eat it, man.”

Only now he has a chance to wash it down with redemption in the Playoff.

Deshaun Watson was in a similar situation in 2016. He’d done all he could at Clemson, including nearly leading the Tigers to a national title a year earlier.

It wasn’t until he took over the 2016 national title game against Alabama, and led a thrilling game-winning drive in the final seconds, that his college career was complete.

The game-winning touchdown pass capped a rare individual performance, with Watson throwing for 420 yards and 3 TDs, while rushing for 43 yards and another score.

After the game, Watson admitted “my college career wouldn’t have been complete” had he not elevated Clemson in the biggest game of the season. Had his individual play not been the difference between a team that makes the Playoff — and a team that wins it.

And he’s not alone in the Playoff era of elite quarterbacks in the same situation.

— In 2018, Lawrence was playing defending national champion Alabama, which had a 16-game winning streak and had won 27 of 28 since Watson’s heroics in 2016.

A true freshman, Lawrence played near perfect, throwing for 347 yards and 3 TDs without an interception in a 44-16 rout of the Tide to capture the national title.

— Fields led Ohio State into the Playoff in 2020, with a little help from the Big Ten changing its COVID return-to-play rules. Fields had that on his shoulders, as well as the blown 16-point lead to Clemson in the 2019 semifinals heading into the Sugar Bowl semifinal rematch against the Tigers.

Despite all of that pregame noise and distraction, Fields threw for 385 yards and 6 TDs, and ran for 42 yards in a game that was over at halftime. Ohio State didn’t win the national title, but Fields made a statement in a dominant semifinal victory.

That brings us all the way back to Stroud, who has played 24 games in his Ohio State career, and all he has to show for it is a Rose Bowl win over Utah, and a big game at home against Michigan State in 2021.

Other than that, he did what he was expected to do in coach Ryan Day’s high-powered offense. Except against Michigan.

All that means nothing on Saturday night in Atlanta. The opportunity is there in a big game and a big moment.

Time to leave no doubt.