The main reason college football coaches want to go to bowl games is because it gives them extra practice time and acts essentially as a pre-spring training camp for the following season. Sure, they also like that it rewards the players, but the real benefit comes from the 15 or so practices over the month of December.
We have now come to the conclusion of our redshirt forecast. The first part of the forecast spoke of the Ohio State football freshmen who were most likely to redshirt. The second part spoke of those freshmen who were more likely to play than redshirt. Today’s conclusion focuses on those freshmen who have been talked…
Ohio State signed three highly-coveted defensive tackles in the 2018 recruiting class. Junior college transfer Antwuan Jackson may have been the most well known, but freshmen Tommy Togiai (No. 3) and Taron Vincent (No. 1) were two of the top three defensive tackles in the class. They will find himself in a defensive line…
The defensive tackles may be the deepest position on the entire Ohio State football team. The Buckeyes only return one starter from last season, but they are four-deep at both tackle spots. Fourth-year junior Dre’Mont Jones is likely headed for the NFL after this season, so this is his opportunity to show The League…
Freshman defensive tackle Tommy Togiai is the first member of the 2018 recruiting class to lose his black stripe. Ohio State announced that Togiai was now officially a member of the program late Wednesday morning. The black stripe is a tradition that Urban Meyer brought with him to Ohio State. New players in the program…
As a First-Team All-American last season, it could be said that Ohio State junior Nick Bosa was one of the two best defensive ends in college football. The talent makes a strong argument, and the production didn’t do a bad job either. Now a junior, Bosa isn’t planning on staying the same player he was a year ago.
In order to get from Pocatello, Idaho to Columbus, Ohio, you generally have to fly in to Salt Lake City first and then catch the next leg of the flight path on your journey to Ohio’s capital city. It’s not necessarily easy, and it certainly isn’t quick. But it works. Another way to get from Pocatello to Columbus is to be one of the…
All nine of Ohio State’s early enrollees were introduced to the media this week, and down below you’ll see video interviews with eight of them. (Sorry, Dallas Gant. Blame Tony Gerdeman and the Columbus traffic on a bad snow day.) These interviews were all streamed live on Facebook, which is something that we do every…
There are 10 new Buckeyes enrolled early for the current semester at Ohio State, as eight freshmen from the 2018 recruiting class were joined by a pair of walk-ons. The new enrollees include a quarterback, a running back, two offensive linemen, two defensive linemen, a linebacker, two cornerbacks, and a kicker. They will all…
The annual showcase of future Ohio State Buckeyes known as the U.S. Army All-American Bowl takes place Saturday afternoon at 1:00 pm on NBC, and eight different OSU signees will be playing, as will a number of targets and notables. Past Buckeyes such as Ted Ginn, Beanie Wells, and Terrelle Pryor have starred in the game.
