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LGHL Ohio State football’s director of player personnel exits for job at LSU

Ohio State football’s director of player personnel exits for job at LSU
Matt Tamanini via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here

Ohio State University vs University of Michigan

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All the Buckeye news thats fit to re-print.

Look, we get it. Your days are busy and you don’t have time to read all of the stories and tweets from the three dozen websites dedicated to covering Ohio State athletics, or the 237 Buckeye beat writers churning out hot takes and #content on a daily basis. But that’s ok, that’s what your friends at Land-Grant Holy Land are here for.

Monday through Friday, we’ll be collecting all of the articles, tweets, features, interviews, videos, podcasts, memes, photos, and whatever else we stumble across on the interwebz and putting them in our daily “Why is this News?” article. That way, you’ll have a one-stop shop for all of the most important Buckeye news, jokes, and analysis.

You’re welcome!

For your Earholes...​


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Matt Tamanini, Land-Grant Holy Land


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On the Gridiron​


Bold Prediction: This season will feature zero existential dread for Ohio State fans
Matt Tamanini, Land-Grant Holy Land

Ohio State loses football recruiting staffer Petitto to LSU
Bill Rabinowitz, The Columbus Dispatch


I've been to a lot of camps, I don't know that I've ever seen kids as excited to meet a player as they were for Jeremiah Smith.

The receiver held a camp in Columbus for young athletes. Smith said he dreamed of giving back as kid, growing up going to camps himself: pic.twitter.com/zmNOa5VKRS

— Adam King (@AdamKing10TV) July 13, 2025​
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Analyzing why Ohio State, Texas are treated differently heading into rematch
Austin Ward, Lettermen Row

Bold Predictions: The B1G will earn five College Football Playoff spots in 2025
Jami Jurich, Land-Grant Holy Land

Big Ten’s Top-25 players in 2025: Four Buckeyes in top-11 | Zero Michigan players made the cut
Dave Biddle, Bucknuts

You’re Nuts: What is your boldest prediction for an Ohio State position group?
Brett Ludwiczak and Matt Tamanini, Land-Grant Holy Land

Five Buckeye Freshmen In Line To Be Key Contributors
Tony Gerdeman, Buckeye Huddle


REMINDER: There are 136 FBS teams but there is only one program in college football history to have never lost more than seven games in a single season.

Ohio State. pic.twitter.com/2hBLmq55jW

— Jon “JR” Rhoades (@jrs_rankings) July 13, 2025​
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Ohio State fans boldly predict a Jeremiah Smith Heisman Trophy
Matt Tamanini, Land-Grant Holy Land

Could 2025 Buckeyes secondary be better than last season?
Spencer Holbrook, Lettermen Row

On the Hardwood​


You’re Nuts: Will Christoph Tilly or Brandon Noel score more points per game this season?
Connor Lemons and Justin Golba, Land-Grant Holy Land

Ohio State verbal Alex Smith discusses reasons for his transfer to Prolific Prep
Steve Helwagen, Bucknuts


LESS THAN DAYS!!!!!

We are DEFENDING OUR TITLE in TBT’s Indianapolis Regional!

Game 1: July 19 - 7PM

Get your tickets now to see William Buford, Kaleb Wesson and the rest of the @OhioStateHoops alumni: https://t.co/WFHMFggTDW pic.twitter.com/9qt347Ugq5

— Car❌en’s Crew - THE Ohio State’s TBT Team (@CarmensCrew) July 10, 2025​
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Outside the Shoe and Schott​


Neal Shipley wins second Korn Ferry tournament of 2025 season
Rob Oller, The Columbus Dispatch

And now for something completely different...​


What could possibly go wrong?


UNO is being added as a table game to casinos in Las Vegas

(via Las Vegas Review-Journal) pic.twitter.com/QabdZbGqxm

— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) July 13, 2025​
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LGHL Bold Prediction: This season will feature zero existential dread for Ohio State fans

Bold Prediction: This season will feature zero existential dread for Ohio State fans
Matt Tamanini via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here

Syndication: The Columbus Dispatch

Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

All of the questions that fans had about whether Ryan Day could get the team to the next level have been asked and answered.

As preseason camp begins this month, Land-Grant Holy Land is diving into its final theme every week of the off-season. This week is all about making predictions that may or may not be reasonable, in fact, some might say they are bold. You can catch up on all of the Theme Week content here and all of our ”Bold Predictions” articles here.


The Ohio State football team accomplished an unimaginable amount in December and January of last season. The Buckeyes went on arguably the greatest four-game run in the history of college football, they claimed the program’s ninth national title, and reestablished themselves at the top of the college football mountain. However, the thing that I think is most significant from the Buckeyes’ College Football Playoff run is the fact that head coach Ryan Day got the proverbial monkey off his back.

Despite tons of wins over the last three or four seasons, for many in Buckeye Nation, there has been an air of anxiety around the program because no matter what the team accomplished, there always seemed to be a feeling that the other shoe was going to eventually drop. Unfortunately, that footwear often fell in the regular season finale against Michigan.

These disappointments led many Buckeye fans — myself included — to wonder if Day was capable of getting over the hurdles that he seemingly placed in his own path. While a wizard in the schematic and motivational areas of coaching, an obsession to prove that his team was “tough”, and inability to trust his assistant coaches and players in the most inopportune times to becoming oddly overly conservative in big situations, Day’ mental blocks in the biggest games led to many fans living in a constant state of existential dread when it came to the Buckeye football team.

Now, this might say more about those fans than the team or head coach, but there is no denying that fans — including many outside of the #LunaticFringe — were increasingly concerned about whether or not Day could get the Buckeyes back to the upper echelon of college football.

Well, the easiest way to get people to stop worrying about whether or not you can do something is to just go out and do it, and that is exactly what Ryan Day did. Following the fourth-straight loss to Michigan, the head coach seemingly reexamined everything about his team, taking the restrictor plate off of the offense, letting the defense play with an aggression that had appeared to be lacking, and giving his coaches the right to take big swings.

It obviously all paid off last season, and that leads to a much different vibe coming into the 2025 campaign. While this year’s squad will not have the benefit of all of those insanely talented and experienced players that anchored the title run last year, there are plenty of guys waiting in the wings to step up and get their turn.

But even if the team doesn’t repeat, or it stumbles a couple of times throughout the season, I don’t think that there will be the constant storm cloud looming over the fandom, waiting to unleash a torrential downpour at the first sign of trouble. The issues that led to questions about Day’s capabilities have been asked and answered, so I feel like Buckeye fans (and bloggers) can approach this season more like Tigger or Pooh, rather than Eeyore.

Is this a rebuilding year? No, Ohio State doesn’t rebuild. Is it a season when going undefeated and winning each game by double-digits is reasonable? Probably not. However, with the expanded playoffs, teams like OSU have a little bit more margin for error than what was already afforded the best teams from the best conferences. So we (and by we, I am absolutely including myself) don’t need to react like the sky is falling anytime the team doesn’t look perfect.

While there are always going to be outsized expectations and emotions surrounding the Buckeye football team, I do feel like this season is going to be different. I certainly don’t expect the fans to be complacent because of last season’s national title, but I do think that the CFP win brought a certain peace of mind to the fandom. Not every coaching decision has to be observed and evaluated as if it is a referendum on the future of the program. There is an understanding, conscious or otherwise, that there will be peaks and valleys throughout the course of any season, especially one with 15 new starters and a pair of new coordinators.

Will there be moments when fans are frustrated with the team and coaches? Undoubtedly. But I don’t think that those moments of frustration will lead fans en masse to question whether the program is headed in the right direction. While there will assuredly be intense emotions around those moments — as there always will be with all things OSU — I get the sense that they will be met with the awareness that the thing that we most feared no longer carries the same weight. Ryan Day absolutely can get his team to the pinnacle of the sport; they are there, and he has proven that he can do anything asked of him.

Now, there is, of course, one caveat to all of this. If the Buckeyes lose The Game for the fifth straight year, then there will be a healthy helping of all kinds of dread: existential, impending, apocalyptic, nihilistic, ontological, the list goes on and on.

However, since I am predicting that Ohio State will beat That Team Up North in Ann Arbor 35-21 this season, I don’t think that we are going to have to worry about that, so I stand by my bold prediction: There will be no need for widespread existential dread from Ohio State fans this season.

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LGHL Bold Predictions: The B1G will earn five College Football Playoff spots in 2025

Bold Predictions: The B1G will earn five College Football Playoff spots in 2025
Jami Jurich via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here

NCAA Football: CFP National Championship-Ohio State at Notre Dame

Columbus Dispatch-Imagn Images

We’re placing a lot of trust in the CFP committee to put some respect on the B1G here.

As preseason camp begins this month, Land-Grant Holy Land is diving into its final theme every week of the off-season. This week is all about making predictions that may or may not be reasonable, in fact, some might say they are bold. You can catch up on all of the Theme Week content here and all of our ”Bold Predictions” articles here.


In 2024, the first season with a 12-team College Football Playoff, both the SEC and B1G managed to get four teams into the playoffs. The remaining four spots went to independent Notre Dame and one team each from the ACC, Big 12, and Mountain West conferences.

Though the years of watching seemingly the same four teams occupy the four available playoff spots each year are, thankfully, over, the B1G and SEC continue to be the most dominant conferences, so it’s likely that at least for the foreseeable future, we’ll continue to see similar playoff makeups to last season, with the majority of the teams coming from one of those two conferences.

Though there will be changes to how teams are seeded this season after pushback from last year’s bye weeks, we are still guaranteed to see at least five conferences represented, with one team automatically qualifying from each. The other seven spots? Up for grabs.

And while the SEC will continue to be a dominant conference this season, I’m boldly predicting we’ll see the same conference representation in the CFP, with one slight change: The B1G will take one of the SEC’s four spots to land five teams in the playoffs.

In looking at each of the teams I believe will make it and their schedules, there are two different ways I see this happening. Let’s break it down:

Scenario No. 1:​


Given Oregon’s schedule this season, I anticipate them finishing the regular season either undefeated or with one loss. In this first scenario, they finish the season undefeated, defeating Penn State and Indiana back-to-back, both in close games. This gives Penn State and Indiana each one loss.

Penn State is likely to field its best team in years, with Drew Allar returning as the starting quarterback, a top-tier offensive arsenal of weapons that includes returning running backs Kaytron Allen and Nicholas Singleton, and the acquisition of former Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles to run their defense. So, as much as this Buckeye fan hates to say it, in both of my two scenarios, Penn State won’t lose again, defeating Ohio State for the first time since 2016.

Capital One Orange Bowl - Penn State v Notre Dame
Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images

This leaves Oregon undefeated, Penn State with one loss, and Ohio State with one loss, with Penn State winning the tie-break over OSU to make it to the B1G Championship game, given the head-to-head record. Penn State wins the B1G Championship narrowly over Oregon, handing them each one loss, to each other, heading into the playoffs.

Ohio State has the opportunity to further boost its rankings even without a conference title game berth in its season opener against Texas and its regular season finale on the road against Michigan, both games I expect the Buckeyes to win.

But what if that’s Michigan’s only loss on the season? That leaves the Wolverines with one loss. If they’re a one-loss team, however, it means they won road games against Oklahoma and USC, so if they keep it close with the Buckeyes, one loss becomes easy to overlook.

So, how does a fifth team get in there? In this scenario, Indiana comes in as a two-loss team, with close losses to Oregon and Penn State but dominant marquee wins against Indiana and Iowa, both of whom should be good enough to be ranked this season. While two losses might seem like a lot, seven two-loss teams earned bids in 2024, including Georgia, whose two losses included an 18-point loss to then-No.16 Ole Miss, a team that didn’t make the playoffs, and Tennessee, whose two losses included a loss to unranked Arkansas. Indiana, then, can make a strong case for itself with blowout wins over presumably ranked Iowa and Illinois and keeping it close with the top two teams in the conference.

This brings us to our second scenario, bolder in some ways, tamer in others.

Scenario No. 2:​


In this instance, all five teams finish the regular season with one loss.

Oregon beats Penn State but loses the following week to Indiana. Penn State loses to Oregon but beats Ohio State and Indiana. Ohio State loses to Penn State but beats Michigan. Michigan only loses the OSU game. Indiana only loses the Penn State game.

Suffice it to say, this throws the B1G Championship down a rabbit hole of tiebreakers, but ultimately, leaves us with four one-loss teams and one two-loss team whose second loss is the conference championship.

The most likely scenario here is that the Committee would weigh strength of schedule and head-to-head results heavily in determining which teams would advance to the playoffs, but if all five teams have better records than the teams from the SEC and other conferences that are on the cusp, it’s hard not to argue for all five to make it.

Certainly, there are a lot of hypotheticals involved that would need to play out perfectly to set this scenario up, and the prediction feels even bolder when you consider how much of an edge the CFP seems to give the SEC for its perceived strength of schedule. Is it improbable that five B1G teams will make the playoffs? Sure. Is it impossible? Not this year.

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LGHL Ohio State fans boldly predict a Jeremiah Smith Heisman Trophy

Ohio State fans boldly predict a Jeremiah Smith Heisman Trophy
Matt Tamanini via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here

2025 CFP National Championship Presented by AT&T- Ohio State v Notre Dame

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images

You ask, we answer. Sometimes we ask, others answer. And then other times, we ask, we answer.

As preseason camp begins this week, Land-Grant Holy Land is diving into its final theme every week of the off-season. This week is all about making predictions that may or may not be reasonable, in fact, some might say they are bold. You can catch up on all of the Theme Week content here and all of our ”Bold Predictions” articles here.


Today is the last day of Bold Predictions Week here at Land-Grant Holy Land, so we are going to take a look at just how bold Buckeye Nation believes this season could get for the Ohio State football team. Earlier this week, we asked OSU fans two questions in our weekly fan survey, and now we’ve got the results.


Take a look at the results for each question below, and if you have strong feelings one way or the other about what your fellow fans had to say, head to the comments at the bottom of the page and let us know.

If you are feeling especially confident in your bold predicting, head over to the FanDuel SportsBook to put your money where your prognosticating is, as they generously sponsored this article.

Question 1: Which bold prediction do you think is most likely to happen?​



The options that we included in this one were all pretty bold, so it is fun to see that fans were fairly equally dispersed in terms of which one they thought was most possible. However, the option that pulled slightly ahead was Jeremiah Smith winning the Heisman Trophy.

That one is bold for a lot of reasons. First, I am not quite sure if non-quarterbacks are still legally allowed to win the award. Obviously, I’m kidding, but for a sophomore wide receiver to win the most prestigious individual award in all of sports, that would be surprising. However, it is certainly not out of the realm of possibilities. Smith is one of, if not the, most dynamic player in the game, and he already has the buzz and name recognition that are required to mount a serious Heisman campaign.

So, when it comes to bold, but possible, this certainly qualifies.

Question 2: Which under-the-radar Buckeye do you boldly predict will have a huge season?​



Now this one is really fun, because I, for one, am not really sure what to expect from the Buckeye defensive line this season. Having to replace all four starters from last year’s championship team is daunting enough, but when you throw in the defensive coordinator shift and some exciting, but unproven guys waiting for their turn, you’ve got a whole lot of potential, but not a lot of certainty.

So, the fact that we got a tie featuring two players who (presumably) are going to be backup defensive ends is interesting. Caden Curry has undoubtedly had moments where he has looked like he could assume a starting role for the squad over the years, but with the transfer addition of Beau Atkinson, it appears, at least for now, that he is the third man in the rotation.

Then, you’ve got C.J. Hicks, a former five-star linebacker prospect who just hasn’t ever found his footing on the field. It’s believed that he has made the move to edge rusher, and the fans and coaching staff are hoping that his impressive athleticism will finally be able to be utilized.

Both guys are excellent candidates in this category, so hopefully Buckeye Nation nails it on them both.


Throughout the year, we ask questions of the most plugged-in Ohio State fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. This survey was brought to you by FanDuel.

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