College football: Ohio State emphasizes toughness
COLUMBUS – Ryan Day saw a lot of things he liked in Ohio State’s spring football game but one stood out above all the rest. Toughness. It is a quality Day says might have been missing in some crucial situations last season and it’s one of the reasons...
College football: Ten things to watch in Ohio State spring game
Ohio State wraps up spring workouts on Saturday with the annual spring game. The format of the game will be offense against defense instead of the traditional Scarlet against Gray. Kickoff is at 12:05 p.m., on the Big Ten Network and the Ohio State radio network with...
Ohio State football: Defensive coordinator Jim Knowles sheds some light on mysterious new position
COLUMBUS — More than anything, new positions in the Ohio State defense are getting the most attention this spring. In the first few days, three distinct spots in the secondary — “Bandit,” “Adjuster” and nickel — were...
College football: Last year provides fuel for Ohio State
COLUMBUS – While Ohio State’s football team was satisfying its appetite for breakfast on Thursday morning at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center its appetite for revenge was being sharpened. The television in the room where the Buckeyes had gathered before...
Ohio State football: Stover on the move
COLUMBUS — Cade Stover might be the most traveled player on Ohio State’s football roster without ever leaving OSU’s 43210 zip code. The 6-4, 255-pound junior from Lexington was recruited as a linebacker, then was moved to defensive end. He was a...
Ohio State grade card: Offense rolls, defense regroups
A grade card on Ohio State’s performance in the Rose Bowl, which became record setting, highly entertaining and memorable after a shaky first half: OFFENSE: A+ How many college football teams could play without its two NFL first-round level wide receivers and...
Buckeyes weren’t going to be denied
Ryan Day was right there with Ohio State’s fans – shocked, disappointed and maybe disgusted – when he walked off the field at halftime of the Rose Bowl on Saturday night with the Buckeyes trailing Utah 35-21. “Thirty-five points in the first...
College football: 30 years, 30 favorite Ohio State plays
This is my 30th year of writing about Ohio State football. So, over the course of this season I have tried to come up with my 30 favorite plays from those years. In those 30 seasons I have been there for 359 OSU games, so there were a lot of plays to consider. The...
Listen to this week’s BuckEyes Podcast with Jim Naveau
Jim Naveau and David Trinko talk about Ohio State’s upcoming Rose Bowl matchup against Utah, including how players opting out could affect the...
Rose Bowl opt outs produce questions for Buckeyes
Five questions created by the decision of four Ohio State starters not to play in the Rose Bowl: Question No. 1: Is there any way to put a positive spin on Chris Olave, Garrett Wilson, Nicholas Petit-Frere and Haskell Garrett not being in uniform in the Rose Bowl?...
