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…
Chris Holtmann and Ohio State offered 4-star guard Eric Ayala on Thursday. Ayala (6-5 180) is rated the No. 3 combo guard in the 2018 class by 247Sports. The interesting part about this is the fact that Ayala is thinking about reclassifying to the 2017 class, which would make him eligible this coming season. Ayala…
There have been six Big Ten Conference Championship Games since the B1G joined the conference championship party back in 2011. In that time, however, only six teams have participated. Wisconsin has played in the game four times, Michigan State three, Ohio State twice, and Penn State, Nebraska, and Iowa once each.
There is an old saying about not being the guy who follows the guy, but be the guy who follows the guy who followed the guy. In Chris Holtmann’s case, you would think it would be challenging and stressful following in the footsteps of Thad Matta, who won five Big Ten regular season championships, led his team…
The event features a Nike Football Ratings Championship, which is essentially a combine that determines “high school football’s top athlete.” Last year, that winner was Ohio State running back J.K. Dobbins. Teammate Jeffrey Okudah came in second. There is also the Final 5 Linemen Challenge, which features the top 20…
Ohio State verbal commitments Emory Jones, Taron Vincent, and Jaiden Woodbey will all be featured during ESPN’s first weekend of high school football in August. Also making an appearance will be possible future commitment L’Christian “Blue” Smith, out of Huber Heights Wayne. Here is the full release from ESPN.
Following a 12-month period that saw him win a gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio along with Big Ten and NCAA wrestling crowns for the Buckeyes, Kyle Snyder now has to make more room in his trophy case. Today, he was announced as the Big Ten Jesse Owens Male Athlete of the Year…
When Justin Hilliard came to Ohio State in 2015, he arrived as a 5-star prospect and arguably the top linebacker recruit in the nation. Now two years later and he has just three games played to his credit. A knee injury cost him his freshman season. A right biceps injury took away his 2016 spring camp, and then a…
Kevin Wilson has been around. He played his college football at North Carolina, which is also where he began his coaching career as a graduate assistant in 1984. From there he spent a few years enhancing his resume at smaller schools around the state. Then came a job as the offensive line coach for Miami (OH)…
