November 20, 2012 | What is it like in the Ohio State locker room in the moments leading up to the Michigan game? Nobody can explain it better than the Buckeyes who have gone through it. In this piece, which was written the week of The Game in 2012, Tony Gerdeman asked several different Buckeyes about the calm before the storm of The Game…
November 26, 2016 | The No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes (11-1, 8-1) defeated the No. 3 Michigan Wolverines (10-2, 7-2) by a 30-27 score in double-overtime. It was an instant classic that even Michigan fans have grown to love and revere. There were many key moments in the game, but perhaps none more significant than JT Barrett clearly and obviously…
January 8, 2015 | A few days after Ohio State pummeled Alabama in the first round of the College Football Playoffs in 2014, the Buckeyes met up with reporters back in Columbus. One of the players who spoke with the media was senior receiver Evan Spencer, who put on a performance for the ages against the Crimson Tide. For a game where…
November 10, 2002 | When the 2002 Ohio State Buckeyes survived against Purdue with Holy Buckeye to go 11-0, the critics came out of the woodwork. They couldn’t wait to tell people just how good the Buckeyes weren’t. Two days later, Tom Orr wrote an open letter to the Ohio State football team to make sure they understood the sheer…
June 9, 2017 | Two years ago today, Ohio State hired Chris Holtmann to take over for the fired Thad Matta. In those two years, Holtmann has compiled a 44-23 record overall and 23-15 mark in conference play. In 2017-2018, Holtmann won the Big Ten Coach of the Year Award. Following reports of his hiring — but prior to it being made official later…
October 30, 2011 | In the hours that followed Ohio State’s last-minute fling-of-a-win against Wisconsin in 2011, Brandon Castel wrote about the aftermath of Braxton Miller’s heave to Devin Smith for the eventual win. For a while, it looked like this was going to be an easy one for the Buckeyes, and then it looked like another heartbreaking loss…
February 10, 2012 | A few days after Bret Bielema and Mark Dantonio had their say about Urban Meyer’s recruiting, Meyer responded. This column concerning that response comes from Tony Gerdeman and predicts that poking the Urban Meyer bear probably isn’t such a good idea for any opposing Big Ten coach.
February 3, 2012 | This is a column from Tony Gerdeman following signing day in 2012. Urban Meyer had just signed his first class at Ohio State and in doing so he purloined a Wisconsin commit and a Michigan State commit. Needless to say, head coaches Bret Bielema and Mark Dantonio were not happy. In tomorrow’s rewind, we will include…
Summer 1998 | The 1998 Ohio State football team has been a topic of late on both the forum and the Buckeye Weekly podcast. More specifically, the ’98 loss to Michigan State has been brought up, but there’s no need to open that wound on a weekend. The Buckeyes were regarded as the best team in the nation well before the ’98 season, and…
July 12, 2011 | This story comes from Brandon Castel and details the reasoning why 5-star Cleveland offensive lineman Kyle Kalis decommitted from Ohio State in the summer of 2011 and instead decided to commit — and eventually sign — with the University of Michigan. Long story short, Kalis didn’t want to jump onto a sinking ship. — TG
