The Gold Pants tradition at Ohio State is arguably the most meaningful of any college football tradition. It is the measuring stick for every single Buckeye who has suited up in the Scarlet and Gray since the tradition began way back in 1934. It started when Buckeye head coach Francis Schmidt said of the mighty…
I cover the Buckeyes for a living and write about Ohio State just about 365 days a year. I’m not the hardest working guy on the beat. I know that. I work as hard as I choose to. That being said, I always felt like I had a pretty good feel for the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry. At least until Wednesday, that is. It was on Wednesday…
We are a little over two weeks away from the second and final signing day of the 2018 recruiting cycle, and as you might expect, Ohio State and Michigan are right at the top of the Big Ten standings in recruiting rankings. Well, that’s not entirely true. The Buckeyes are at the top and the Wolverines are No. 3 behind Penn State.
Four-star defensive lineman Tyler Friday (Ramsey, NJ/Don Bosco Prep) committed to Ohio State in a ceremony at his school on Friday, choosing the Buckeyes over Michigan. He also had offers from Alabama, Georgia, Nebraska, Penn State, North Carolina, Tennessee, UCLA, Wisconsin, and others.
In this edition of Accost the Field, we talk about the Heisman Trophy and its declining interest. We take a quick look at Ohio State’s Heisman candidates in 2018. Then we turn to Michigan football and the addition of quarterback Shea Patterson. But don’t start crowning the Wolverines just yet. What kind of drama will Patterson…
If Patterson is immediately eligible, he will give a dynamic boost to a 2018 quarterback competition that was mainly looking to be redshirt sophomore Brandon Peters and redshirt freshman Dylan McCaffrey. Peters was obviously the odds-on favorite to keep the starting quarterback job, but now that is up in the air with the…
Rather than save the second half of last week’s Midweek Mailbag for this week like an intelligent person, I thought I’d go ahead and get it out of the way now. The topics this time around range from Ohio State recruiting to Michigan watching, and everything in between. If you have any questions you want addressed in a future Mailbag…
