Tate Martell’s move to Miami this week is just the latest in one of college football’s unfortunate annual offseason traditions: transfers. Every FBS program can have 85 players on scholarship, the vast majority of whom think they’re good enough to be playing. With barely half of those guys even cracking the two-deep in any given year, frustration and a handful of transfers every year from every school is pretty much inevitable.
Despite OSU’s defense giving up 48 points to Iowa last week, so much of the talk coming into Saturday’s game against Michigan State centers on Ohio State’s offense. The Spartans will bring the Big Ten’s best run defense into Ohio Stadium. Generally, in order to run against a defense like this, an offense will need to utilize the pass to loosen things up.
Two more Buckeyes are now without their black stripes, as freshman wide receiver Trevon Grimes and walk-on freshman running back Mitch Rossi officially joined the club. Grimes was a 5-star prospect out of St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale, Florida who missed the majority of his senior season with an ACL tear.
First off, yes, this is the best name I could come up with for a standard “thoughts” piece that every writer does. I’m guessing nobody else has used this title though, so that’s good. The reason I wanted to write about the Ohio State receivers today is plentifold. Mainly, I just thought it would be good to talk about a position group…
One of the topics discussed in this week’s Accost the Field concerned J.T. Barrett the ball carrier. Namely, would we see him carrying the ball as much as he has in the past. Barrett carried the ball 205 times last season, which was 23 more times than leading rusher Mike Weber. He had four games of at least 20 carries, compared…
When it comes to annually anticipating things, nothing beats the college football season. NFL fans will tell you that nothing beats the NFL, but these are the same people who can’t watch it sober or without gambling on it. NFL fans basically do the same thing that dudes in the Old West did when they got shot and had to have…
The No. 10 player on this list is a projection because he has yet to play a single college down. That being said, he has as much potential as any player Urban Meyer has ever brought to Ohio State. Trevon Grimes has not taken part in an Ohio State practice yet, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t working in preparation to contribute…
Every year, Urban Meyer goes through his roster and ranks his playmakers on offense. He writes down the players who need to get the football, and then sets out to make sure the offense follows through on his wishes. Every year, I do the same thing, but with a little less impact. Last year’s rankings had Curtis Samuel…
Last week’s projection was a story of consistency and proven success as we discussed the quarterbacks, led by senior J.T. Barrett. This week’s column is the polar opposite. The group, affectionately known as Zone 6 by their coach, has really been missing the consistency and “Zone 6ishness” over the last couple of seasons.
Back in February, I gave you five (or so) predictions for Ohio State’s 2017 early enrollees, so I thought it would be a good idea to do the same for the rest of the freshmen now that they are all on campus. I’m going to use the same topics that I did in February. I could say it was for clarity’s sake, but in reality it’s…
