By every meaningful statistical measure, Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett had his worst game of the season in the Buckeyes’ 31-16 loss to Oklahoma. His .543 completion percentage was his lowest, as were his 183 yards passing and 5.2 yards per attempt. It was the only game where he didn’t throw a touchdown and the only game where…
Every week during Urban Meyer’s Monday press conference, he will read off the list of Buckeyes who graded out as champions in the previous game. The grading scale changes for each position group, but for each player it is a mark of how well they played at their respective positions. Since this is the halfway point of the regular season…
Ohio State will be led by a record number of captains in 2017 with nine players selected to lead the Scarlet and Gray on and off the gridiron. The corps of leaders, all voted on by their teammates, features five on defense, including four defensive linemen, and four on offense, led by the first three-time captain in program history.
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…
The Buckeyes kicked off fall practice on Thursday and in so doing they also kicked off a brand new drill for the defensive linemen.Enter the beach, boys. It’s actually not a beach, as there is no body of water nearby. Instead, it is just a sandpit near the Ohio State practice fields that was once used for drills, but is now used to keep…
Ohio State football camp begins in three days. In fact, 72 hours from now, the first practice will have been over for nearly three hours. But we’ve still got some time to kill. For me, I’ve still got time to write these, and for you, you’ve still got time to read them. Soon, however, we won’t have time. Our hours will be consumed…
It sounds unbelievable, but the Ohio State Buckeyes could have six defensive linemen selected in the 2018 NFL Draft. The current record is five, and it probably won’t surprise you to find out that it was set by Miami in 2003. That’s right, the Hurricanes team that Ohio State beat for the 2002 National Title sent five…
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…
To look at Sam Hubbard’s numbers, you might not come away as impressed as you should be. Last year, he tied for third on the team with 3.5 sacks and finished fourth on the team with 8.5 tackles for loss. Those aren’t exactly staggering numbers for a guy who is supposed to spend his time in the backfield. But when…
As the Scottish poet Robert Burns and the American author John Steinbeck might tell Coach Meyer, the best laid plans often result in something completely different and unpredicted. Urban Meyer has made no secret of wanting true freshmen to contribute on the field, but the realities of the Ohio State depth chart has…
Heading into the 2016 season, there was some thought that this might be J.T. Barrett’s last year as an Ohio State quarterback. He would be graduating following the season, and he was expected to have a very productive redshirt junior year. Both of those happened…
