Bye Week Video Interviews
Several players and coaches sat down with reporters on Wednesday to talk about how the team was doing at mid-season and about the upcoming game…
Big Ten Admits Error in Denzel Ward Ejection
Sometimes even replay officials get a call wrong. Ohio State cornerback Denzel Ward was flagged for targeting on Maryland receiver Taivon Jacobs in the first half of Saturday’s game between the Buckeyes and the Terrapins. The photo above is one snapshot of the play in question. The penalty was upheld after review and Ward was ejected from the game.
The Definitive Guide to What Is and What Isn’t Targeting in College Football
The targeting rule in football — both professional and college — was implemented with the best of intentions. The rule was created to protect players and to decrease the number of serious hits to the head and neck area of every player on the field. The penalty is immediate disqualification seems steep to some, but the only way…
Opponent Watch: 3 Things to Watch For From Maryland
A proud son of Ohio, hailing from Point Pleasant, former Civil War general and the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant would be a strong advocate for as much advanced scouting of the enemy as possible before a battle was engaged. While I have the utmost confidence in Urban Meyer and his strong staff of assistants…
Opponent Watch: 3 Things To Watch For From The Sooners
A proud son of Ohio, hailing from Point Pleasant, former Civil War general and the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant would be a strong advocate for as much advanced scouting of the enemy as possible before a battle was engaged. While I have the utmost confidence in Urban Meyer and his strong staff of assistants…
Indiana Helped Ohio State Secondary Get Ready for Oklahoma
Forty-two completions. Sixty-eight attempts. That was Indiana’s passing game against the Ohio State defense last Thursday. If you think about it, that’s basically two games’ worth of work in one evening for a brand new Buckeye secondary. Not every member of the secondary is new, of course, as cornerback Denzel Ward…
Ohio State Football Notebook: ‘He might be the fastest one of all of them’
Even though we are now just one week away from the Ohio State Buckeyes taking the field for the first time in 2017, it is difficult to move past 2016 just yet. Given the offensive struggles last season even though they weren’t exactly expected, it’s only natural to worry the same may be possible this year. One of the areas of…
Buckeye Corners in the NFL Coaching Up Those Still Wearing the Scarlet and Gray
When a person is part of something special, they don’t ever really leave. Even when they move on, their legacy remains in place, providing a time-release reinforcement of what they helped to build. The legacy of cornerbacks at Ohio State goes back a long way, but it really picked up in the mid-1990s. In 1996, the Buckeyes…
Ranking Ohio State’s Top 10 Playmakers on Defense: Nos. 10-1
Look, we all knew this was a possibility. I planned my annual list of Ohio State playmakers on offense, and that went fine. I then decided to do the same thing once again on defense, but things haven’t gone so well. I thought I would have time to get it done, but I’m running out of time, and I still have other commitments that…
Ohio State Looking for a Fourth at Cornerback
Once something is established, it’s hard to go away from it. That’s why Urban Meyer is so adamant about building the culture at Ohio State and relying on it to replenish itself year after year. One such recent establishment for the Buckeyes is the three-man rotation at cornerback. Finally born a year ago, cornerbacks…
100 Things to Look Forward to This Buckeye Football Season: 30-21
It’s sad to me that there are only 30 things left to look forward to this Buckeye football season. This year of looking forward has just flown by. It wasn’t too long ago that the preseason looking forward magazines were just hitting the shelves. And now here we are with the looking forward season almost over. What a year…
