Oklahoma entered this season with a revamped offensive attack as they sorted out their running back situation following the loss of Joe Mixon and Samaje Perine to the NFL. Without those two bell cows, the Sooners instead relied heavily on quick throws to predetermined reads on first and second downs versus week 1 opponent UTEP.
Dante Booker ran out of the Ohio State tunnel for the first time last season as a starter. It was the 2016 opener against Bowling Green. After being an understudy to Joshua Perry for two years, it was finally time for Booker to show what he could do. He saw about nine plays of action before spraining ligaments in his knee…
Monday will bring about another opportunity to speak with Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer. Also on the media docket will be the Buckeye quarterbacks. There is still a competition raging on to be J.T. Barrett’s backup, so that will obviously be a topic of conversation. Joe Burrow and Dwayne Haskins will…
Dante Booker came to Ohio State as a 5-star outside linebacker prospect from Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary. He was one of the crown jewels of the 2014 recruiting class. He was arguably the top prospect in Ohio that year, and so it was no surprise when he decided to become a Buckeye. It’s nearly impossible for a freshman…
As Ohio State fans have learned over the last few years, success can bring almost as much coach and player turnover as failure does. The 2017 season brings more of the same for both in the linebackers room. Luke Fickell took his talents south as he became the head coach at the University of Cincinnati and Raekwon…
When it comes to annually anticipating things, nothing beats the college football season. NFL fans will tell you that nothing beats the NFL, but these are the same people who can’t watch it sober or without gambling on it. NFL fans basically do the same thing that dudes in the Old West did when they got shot and had to have…
As I do every Wednesday night, I had the privilege of sitting down with Mark Rogers and discussing the Ohio State Buckeyes. In this episode, we discussed the drama surrounding J.T. Barrett not being selected as a B1G Media Days representative, the 2017 linebackers, and finally we went over my projected stats for the offense.
We are roughly two weeks away from Ohio State football camp opening, if you can believe it. The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter by the day, and you can almost make out the desolate Bloomington farmscape taking shape. Yes, that is a Denny’s with a silo. And no, they don’t have pull tabs, that…
This season the Ohio State Buckeyes will feature a Mike linebacker who used to be a Sam linebacker, a Sam linebacker who used to be a Will linebacker, and a Will linebacker who used to be a Sam linebacker. No, this isn’t three cases of mistaken identity, it’s the Ohio State linebackers in a nutshell. The first start of…
You can’t really take a walk down the internet without running into an NFL mock draft these days. And you almost can’t be a Buckeye without eventually having your name mentioned inside one of those drafts. Even though we’ve just hit our second week of summer, the mock draft season is year round. With that…
Ohio State went into the spring having to replace just one linebacker from last season, but that one was a big one. Middle linebacker Raekwon McMillan is on his way to the NFL and now Chris Worley has stepped in for him. That was just one story of the spring, which featured new positions, injuries, and a good amount of depth.
