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LGHL Big Ten Top 10: Oregon is No. 1 as three B1G teams claim top-4 spots
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Big Ten Top 10: Oregon is No. 1 as three B1G teams claim top-4 spots
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The official SB Nation Big Ten writers poll is the only truly unbiased poll any college football fan could ever need.
AP Poll? Shmay Pee Poll! Coaches Poll? We all know that coaches don’t have time to fill out a weekly survey, let alone watch enough games to make informed choices! That’s why your friendly neighborhood Big Ten writers from across the SB Nation universe have banded together to come up with the only fair, accurate, non-biased poll in all of college football.
Every week, a writer from the 16 sites covering specific B1G schools (lowly UCLA and USC don’t have SBN sites) will submit their picks, and O Basse from Michigan State site The Only Colors will compile them into the official SBN Big Ten Writers Poll
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I will keep you updated on our selections here on Land-Grant Holy Land, and I will let you know how I vote every week because we believe in truth, justice, and transparency in journalism here in Buckeye Country.
There will also be a Player of the Week selected by the Big Ten writers and a Heisman Trophy leaderboard. So, without further ado, here is the post-Week 8 SB Nation Big Ten Writers Poll.
These rankings coincide with my Top-12 picks every week on the “No Fall Weddings” podcast in the Land-Grant Podcast Network feed, which you can subscribe to anywhere you get your favorite audio entertainment.
New episodes generally come out on Wednesday afternoons, but sometimes on Friday mornings. “No Fall Weddings” is your one-stop shop for everything you need to know about the Buckeyes and the rest of the college football world.
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The UCLA Bruins pulled off a big Big Ten upset last week in a 35-32 win over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. They were led by quarterback Ethan Garber who was 32-for-38 through the air amassing 383 yards and four touchdowns.
Others receiving votes:
Bhayshul Tuten | Virginia Tech, RB (my pick)
Bryson Daily | Army, QB
Jonathan Kim | MSU, K
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The official SB Nation Big Ten writers poll is the only truly unbiased poll any college football fan could ever need.
AP Poll? Shmay Pee Poll! Coaches Poll? We all know that coaches don’t have time to fill out a weekly survey, let alone watch enough games to make informed choices! That’s why your friendly neighborhood Big Ten writers from across the SB Nation universe have banded together to come up with the only fair, accurate, non-biased poll in all of college football.
Every week, a writer from the 16 sites covering specific B1G schools (lowly UCLA and USC don’t have SBN sites) will submit their picks, and O Basse from Michigan State site The Only Colors will compile them into the official SBN Big Ten Writers Poll
.I will keep you updated on our selections here on Land-Grant Holy Land, and I will let you know how I vote every week because we believe in truth, justice, and transparency in journalism here in Buckeye Country.
There will also be a Player of the Week selected by the Big Ten writers and a Heisman Trophy leaderboard. So, without further ado, here is the post-Week 8 SB Nation Big Ten Writers Poll.
SB Nation Big Ten Writers Poll | Week 8
My Personal Top-10 Rankings | Week 8
These rankings coincide with my Top-12 picks every week on the “No Fall Weddings” podcast in the Land-Grant Podcast Network feed, which you can subscribe to anywhere you get your favorite audio entertainment.
New episodes generally come out on Wednesday afternoons, but sometimes on Friday mornings. “No Fall Weddings” is your one-stop shop for everything you need to know about the Buckeyes and the rest of the college football world.
Player of the Week | Ethan Garber, UCLA
The UCLA Bruins pulled off a big Big Ten upset last week in a 35-32 win over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. They were led by quarterback Ethan Garber who was 32-for-38 through the air amassing 383 yards and four touchdowns.
Others receiving votes:
Bhayshul Tuten | Virginia Tech, RB (my pick)
Bryson Daily | Army, QB
Jonathan Kim | MSU, K
Heisman Trophy Leaderboard
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LGHL B1G Thoughts: Sometimes it’s not arrogance, it’s just a fact!
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B1G Thoughts: Sometimes it’s not arrogance, it’s just a fact!
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The Curt Cignetti hire was the best move this offseason + the return of Rich Rod?
Every week after the Big Ten games, I will bring you some B1G thoughts on everything that happened! This will include analysis, stats, key players, moments, and more. With the Big Ten expanding from 14 teams to 18 teams in 2024 we will have a bunch of storylines to follow. Check out the I-80 Football Show for more in-depth analysis and to preview the next week of B1G games.
After being announced as head coach for the Indiana Hoosiers, Curt Cignetti spoke about how he was going to turn around this football program. He mentioned wanting to beat Ohio State and Michigan by name. He joked at Big Ten media days that he was happy that was in Indianapolis because he planned to be back next year for the Big Ten championship game. His confidence bordered on arrogance and caused people, myself included to laugh. I felt like it was important to speak highly as a new coach but he was biting off more than he could chew. I wasn’t the only one because at Big Ten media days he dealt with a lot of skepticism that led him to drop a quote that will live on forever.
After continually being asked how he would turn around Indiana Curt simply said, “I win, google me”. I guess we forgot to google him because if we did we’d come across a coach with a combined 119-35 record across three schools. Curt Cignetti does indeed win and in year one at Indiana all he’s done is win currently sitting at 7-0 with the only real threat left on his schedule being Ohio State. 11-1 Indiana should be the expectation at this point but 12-0 isn’t off the table as they could challenge Ohio State. Indiana is on track to making the 12-team playoff in his first season, Curt Cignetti wins… Google says so.
I was high on Nebraska, I thought they had a chance to win eight or nine games this season and put a scare into some of the top contenders in the conference but after a 56-7 loss to Indiana, they are showing that they have a long ways to go before being the team many of us thought they would be. Don’t get me wrong, Nebraska is 5-2 and has UCLA on the schedule they should get to 6-6 and make a bowl game which is an improvement for sure but there was a lot of hope going into this season that is going to lead to disappointment if they lose five of their last six games and similarly ends the season to last season.
Unfortunately for the Cornhuskers, they don’t get much time to lick their wounds as they play Ohio State this weekend in what should be another drubbing. Luckily they ended the season with UCLA, a USC team that lost to Maryland and Minnesota, Wisconsin, and an Iowa team that lost to Michigan State. It’s going to be ugly this Saturday but they have a chance to fix this season before it gets out of control and ends on a high note. Otherwise, there are going to be tough questions for Matt Rhule to answer after this season.
Lincoln Riley has become USC’s Rich Rod but unlike Michigan, USC won’t be able to get rid of him after three seasons. Before accepting the Michigan job, Rich Rod went 60-26 (34-14 Big East), winning four conference championships and going 3-3 in bowl games. In his final three years at West Virginia, Rich Rod went 32-5 including two Big East championships and all three of his bowk victories. Michigan thought they struck gold by hiring him away from the Mountaineers but at Michigan, he struggled to adjust to the Big Ten and went 15-22, (6-18). The Rich Rod era was an abject failure. Now on to Riley, before leaving Oklahoma for USC Riley was 55-10 with four Big 12 championships and a 2-3 record in bowl games including 0-2 in the college football playoffs. So far at USC he is 22-12 and has more losses in two and a half seasons than he had in five years at Oklahoma.
In his first season, he went 11-3 but since then he is 11-9 in his last 21 games and has lost five games in which he held a 14-point lead. This fails to mention that he did a lot of his losing with Caleb Williams, the best quarterback he’s ever coached. Now he doesn’t have Williams, he’s in a tougher conference, and he seems lost. He is 3-4 in 2024 and this year he doesn’t have the Alex Grinch excuse. Riley is failing at USC and with the number of changes he’d had to make starting with giving up playcalling, learning to value defense, and finding and developing talent on the offense and defensive lines, it’s hard to see him turning his tenure around. Michigan and USC thought they struck gold, instead, they stepped on a land mine and are having to pick up their pieces.
We all understand that anything is possible when you’re relying on 18-22-year-olds but some things are far more unlikely than others starting with UCLA having an offensive explosion against what was a good Rutgers defense and Michigan State putting up almost 500 yards against what is a good Iowa defense. Let’s start with UCLA, Rutgers' offense is always middling and hardly puts them in a position to win games so they usually rely on their defense, a defense that forgot to leave the tailgate and show up for their homecoming game. UCLA entered the game 1-5 looking like the worst team in the conference. In six games they never scored more than 17 points including in their only win against Hawaii where they won 16-13.
Against Rutgers, UCLA put up 35 points with starting quarterback Ethan Garbers going 32/38 for 369 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, and leading his team in rushing with six carries for 62 yards and a touchdown. It’s safe to say that is the best game of Garbers career and it came against Rutgers, in New Jersey, on homecoming while playing at 9 am body clock time. That’s embarrassing, a once-promising season for Rutgers has a chance to spiral out of control as they now must find two wins in their final five games against USC, Minnesota, Maryland, Illinois, and Michigan State. There are winnable games but if you can lose to UCLA you can lose to anyone.
Iowa has one of the best defenses in the country, it has taken a step back this year but is still formidable except against Michigan State. Against the Spartans, Iowa allowed 256 passing yards and 233 rushing yards, something we saw from Ohio State against this defense but didn’t expect anyone else to put up those numbers. The most damning part of this loss is that Iowa’s averaging starting field position was the Michigan State 45-yard line, meaning on average they started all of their drives in opponent territory and could only manage 20 points. I know that may sound familiar for an Iowa offensive output, they can typically win this game 20-6 but instead, their defense failed to show up.
Aidan Chiles, Michigan State’s starting quarterback, entered the game with eight interceptions on the year which usually spells horror against the Iowa secondary. Still, he only threw one interception and eight total incompletions completing 73% of his passes against a once-vaunted secondary. This is very concerning for Iowa but Jonathon Smiths decision to let Chiles play through his mistakes seems genius as the quarterback is slowly getting better as the season progresses.
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The Curt Cignetti hire was the best move this offseason + the return of Rich Rod?
Every week after the Big Ten games, I will bring you some B1G thoughts on everything that happened! This will include analysis, stats, key players, moments, and more. With the Big Ten expanding from 14 teams to 18 teams in 2024 we will have a bunch of storylines to follow. Check out the I-80 Football Show for more in-depth analysis and to preview the next week of B1G games.
Did you forget to Google Curt Cignetti?
After being announced as head coach for the Indiana Hoosiers, Curt Cignetti spoke about how he was going to turn around this football program. He mentioned wanting to beat Ohio State and Michigan by name. He joked at Big Ten media days that he was happy that was in Indianapolis because he planned to be back next year for the Big Ten championship game. His confidence bordered on arrogance and caused people, myself included to laugh. I felt like it was important to speak highly as a new coach but he was biting off more than he could chew. I wasn’t the only one because at Big Ten media days he dealt with a lot of skepticism that led him to drop a quote that will live on forever.
After continually being asked how he would turn around Indiana Curt simply said, “I win, google me”. I guess we forgot to google him because if we did we’d come across a coach with a combined 119-35 record across three schools. Curt Cignetti does indeed win and in year one at Indiana all he’s done is win currently sitting at 7-0 with the only real threat left on his schedule being Ohio State. 11-1 Indiana should be the expectation at this point but 12-0 isn’t off the table as they could challenge Ohio State. Indiana is on track to making the 12-team playoff in his first season, Curt Cignetti wins… Google says so.
So uh... Are we doing this again Nebraska?
I was high on Nebraska, I thought they had a chance to win eight or nine games this season and put a scare into some of the top contenders in the conference but after a 56-7 loss to Indiana, they are showing that they have a long ways to go before being the team many of us thought they would be. Don’t get me wrong, Nebraska is 5-2 and has UCLA on the schedule they should get to 6-6 and make a bowl game which is an improvement for sure but there was a lot of hope going into this season that is going to lead to disappointment if they lose five of their last six games and similarly ends the season to last season.
Unfortunately for the Cornhuskers, they don’t get much time to lick their wounds as they play Ohio State this weekend in what should be another drubbing. Luckily they ended the season with UCLA, a USC team that lost to Maryland and Minnesota, Wisconsin, and an Iowa team that lost to Michigan State. It’s going to be ugly this Saturday but they have a chance to fix this season before it gets out of control and ends on a high note. Otherwise, there are going to be tough questions for Matt Rhule to answer after this season.
Rich Riley, Lincoln Rod
Lincoln Riley has become USC’s Rich Rod but unlike Michigan, USC won’t be able to get rid of him after three seasons. Before accepting the Michigan job, Rich Rod went 60-26 (34-14 Big East), winning four conference championships and going 3-3 in bowl games. In his final three years at West Virginia, Rich Rod went 32-5 including two Big East championships and all three of his bowk victories. Michigan thought they struck gold by hiring him away from the Mountaineers but at Michigan, he struggled to adjust to the Big Ten and went 15-22, (6-18). The Rich Rod era was an abject failure. Now on to Riley, before leaving Oklahoma for USC Riley was 55-10 with four Big 12 championships and a 2-3 record in bowl games including 0-2 in the college football playoffs. So far at USC he is 22-12 and has more losses in two and a half seasons than he had in five years at Oklahoma.
In his first season, he went 11-3 but since then he is 11-9 in his last 21 games and has lost five games in which he held a 14-point lead. This fails to mention that he did a lot of his losing with Caleb Williams, the best quarterback he’s ever coached. Now he doesn’t have Williams, he’s in a tougher conference, and he seems lost. He is 3-4 in 2024 and this year he doesn’t have the Alex Grinch excuse. Riley is failing at USC and with the number of changes he’d had to make starting with giving up playcalling, learning to value defense, and finding and developing talent on the offense and defensive lines, it’s hard to see him turning his tenure around. Michigan and USC thought they struck gold, instead, they stepped on a land mine and are having to pick up their pieces.
Welp… I wasn’t expecting that.
We all understand that anything is possible when you’re relying on 18-22-year-olds but some things are far more unlikely than others starting with UCLA having an offensive explosion against what was a good Rutgers defense and Michigan State putting up almost 500 yards against what is a good Iowa defense. Let’s start with UCLA, Rutgers' offense is always middling and hardly puts them in a position to win games so they usually rely on their defense, a defense that forgot to leave the tailgate and show up for their homecoming game. UCLA entered the game 1-5 looking like the worst team in the conference. In six games they never scored more than 17 points including in their only win against Hawaii where they won 16-13.
Against Rutgers, UCLA put up 35 points with starting quarterback Ethan Garbers going 32/38 for 369 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, and leading his team in rushing with six carries for 62 yards and a touchdown. It’s safe to say that is the best game of Garbers career and it came against Rutgers, in New Jersey, on homecoming while playing at 9 am body clock time. That’s embarrassing, a once-promising season for Rutgers has a chance to spiral out of control as they now must find two wins in their final five games against USC, Minnesota, Maryland, Illinois, and Michigan State. There are winnable games but if you can lose to UCLA you can lose to anyone.
Iowa has one of the best defenses in the country, it has taken a step back this year but is still formidable except against Michigan State. Against the Spartans, Iowa allowed 256 passing yards and 233 rushing yards, something we saw from Ohio State against this defense but didn’t expect anyone else to put up those numbers. The most damning part of this loss is that Iowa’s averaging starting field position was the Michigan State 45-yard line, meaning on average they started all of their drives in opponent territory and could only manage 20 points. I know that may sound familiar for an Iowa offensive output, they can typically win this game 20-6 but instead, their defense failed to show up.
Aidan Chiles, Michigan State’s starting quarterback, entered the game with eight interceptions on the year which usually spells horror against the Iowa secondary. Still, he only threw one interception and eight total incompletions completing 73% of his passes against a once-vaunted secondary. This is very concerning for Iowa but Jonathon Smiths decision to let Chiles play through his mistakes seems genius as the quarterback is slowly getting better as the season progresses.
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LGHL Tell us where you think Ohio State will be seeded in the College Football Playoff
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Tell us where you think Ohio State will be seeded in the College Football Playoff
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You ask, we answer. Sometimes we ask, others answer. And then other times, we ask, we answer.
Throughout the Ohio State football season, we will be asking and answering questions about the team, college football, and anything else on our collective minds of varying degrees of importance. If you have a question that you would like to ask, you can tweet us @LandGrant33 or if you need more than 280 characters, send an email HERE.
Six games down, six more to go. On Saturday, the Ohio State Buckeyes will open up the back half of their regular season when they welcome the reeling Nebraska Cornhuskers to Ohio Stadium. so, as is our weekly wont, we are checking in with Buckeye Nation to see how the first half dozen games of the season have impacted their thoughts and feelings about what is to come.
In this week’s fan survey, not only are we asking for your prediction on Saturday’s matchup, but we also want you to do a little more forward-looking prognosticating by predicting where OSU will end up in the College Football Playoff... if they make it at all. I will break down the two survey questions, and then you can vote at the bottom of the article.
If we didn’t include options that accurately summarizes your thoughts, feel free to write in a pick in the comments below.
As there always is following each and every Ohio State loss, there was a lot of doom and gloom amongst the Buckeye fandom, but after a week and a half to reflect, it’s time to reassess what the final six games of the season (plus a potential Big Ten Championship Game) have in store for Ohio State.
Personally, I still think that they will win the conference title. I certainly am not expecting the games against Penn State, Indiana, and even Michigan (on rivalry vibes alone) to be easy wins, and obviously, OSU could lose any of those contests, but I would be picking them to win each of them, so I’ll stick to that.
If they do win the B1G, then obviously they will be a top-4 seed, probably the No. 1 seed. However, if they make the conference title game and lose, then there’s really no shot for them to get a home game in the playoff as a two-loss team, so that would put them in the No. 9 to No. 12 range. If they go 11-1 in the regular season but somehow get edged out of the Big Ten Title Game (which would essentially require Illinois to be ahead of them in tiebreakers), then they could slot into the No. 5 through No. 8 slots and host a CFP game at The Horseshoe.
While certainly possible, I can’t imagine that OSU loses enough games to not make the playoff, so I am not even entertaining that option as of now. What do you think?
When FanDuel Sportsbook opened betting on this game on Sunday, the line came in at a whopping 23.5 points, far higher than some envisioned preseason when they thought this could be a matchup of undefeateds. The gold standard college football analytics metric SP+ is predicting a score of 33-11 in favor of the Buckeyes.
Personally, following a week off — that came on the heels of a heartbreaking loss — I imagine that the Buckeyes will want to get off to a solid start for their remaining six regular season games. They will need to solidify the offensive line now that Josh Simmons is out, and there needs to be some sort of change across the defensive front, because the lack of true pressure is handcuffing the entire defense.
So, I am optimistic that the Bucks will come out playing as inspired a brand of football as we have seen this season... or at least I hope they will.
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You ask, we answer. Sometimes we ask, others answer. And then other times, we ask, we answer.
Throughout the Ohio State football season, we will be asking and answering questions about the team, college football, and anything else on our collective minds of varying degrees of importance. If you have a question that you would like to ask, you can tweet us @LandGrant33 or if you need more than 280 characters, send an email HERE.
Six games down, six more to go. On Saturday, the Ohio State Buckeyes will open up the back half of their regular season when they welcome the reeling Nebraska Cornhuskers to Ohio Stadium. so, as is our weekly wont, we are checking in with Buckeye Nation to see how the first half dozen games of the season have impacted their thoughts and feelings about what is to come.
In this week’s fan survey, not only are we asking for your prediction on Saturday’s matchup, but we also want you to do a little more forward-looking prognosticating by predicting where OSU will end up in the College Football Playoff... if they make it at all. I will break down the two survey questions, and then you can vote at the bottom of the article.
If we didn’t include options that accurately summarizes your thoughts, feel free to write in a pick in the comments below.
Question 1: Where do you think Ohio State will be seeded in the College Football Playoff?
As there always is following each and every Ohio State loss, there was a lot of doom and gloom amongst the Buckeye fandom, but after a week and a half to reflect, it’s time to reassess what the final six games of the season (plus a potential Big Ten Championship Game) have in store for Ohio State.
Personally, I still think that they will win the conference title. I certainly am not expecting the games against Penn State, Indiana, and even Michigan (on rivalry vibes alone) to be easy wins, and obviously, OSU could lose any of those contests, but I would be picking them to win each of them, so I’ll stick to that.
If they do win the B1G, then obviously they will be a top-4 seed, probably the No. 1 seed. However, if they make the conference title game and lose, then there’s really no shot for them to get a home game in the playoff as a two-loss team, so that would put them in the No. 9 to No. 12 range. If they go 11-1 in the regular season but somehow get edged out of the Big Ten Title Game (which would essentially require Illinois to be ahead of them in tiebreakers), then they could slot into the No. 5 through No. 8 slots and host a CFP game at The Horseshoe.
While certainly possible, I can’t imagine that OSU loses enough games to not make the playoff, so I am not even entertaining that option as of now. What do you think?
Question 2: What will the margin of victory be in Saturday’s game against Nebraska?
When FanDuel Sportsbook opened betting on this game on Sunday, the line came in at a whopping 23.5 points, far higher than some envisioned preseason when they thought this could be a matchup of undefeateds. The gold standard college football analytics metric SP+ is predicting a score of 33-11 in favor of the Buckeyes.
Personally, following a week off — that came on the heels of a heartbreaking loss — I imagine that the Buckeyes will want to get off to a solid start for their remaining six regular season games. They will need to solidify the offensive line now that Josh Simmons is out, and there needs to be some sort of change across the defensive front, because the lack of true pressure is handcuffing the entire defense.
So, I am optimistic that the Bucks will come out playing as inspired a brand of football as we have seen this season... or at least I hope they will.
Share your thoughts here:
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LGHL Ohio State men’s basketball player preview: Evan Mahaffey
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Ohio State men’s basketball player preview: Evan Mahaffey
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Mahaffey returns to the Buckeyes having logged the second-most minutes behind Bruce Thornton.
Even though it’s October and fans are locked into college football, the fall also means that college basketball is right around the corner.
From now until the start of the hoops season in early November, we will be doing player previews and team previews for all the players on the men’s basketball team and the new look Big Ten Conference.
Name: Evan Mahaffey
Position: Forward
Class: Junior
High School/Previous School: Archbishop Moeller H.S./Penn State
Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
Weight: 200 pounds
Height: 6-foot-6
The Penn State transfer and Ohio native was one of the top overall producers for the Buckeyes last season, as one of four players to play in all 36 games and made 35 starts.
He was one of the team’s top defenders, and averaged 4.3 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 1.0 steals per game while also recording 25 blocks. As a scorer for the Buckeyes, he had four double-digit scoring games, including a career-high 16 against his former team, Penn State.
Before Ohio State, he played in 34 games as a true freshman at Penn State, averaging 2.8 points and 1.7 rebounds per game while shooting 56.9 percent from the field in an average of 9.4 minutes per contest
He is one of the few Ohio State players with tournament experience, as he appeared in both NCAA Tournament games for the Nittany Lions in 2023 against Texas A&M and Texas.
According to 247Sports, he was a consensus three-star prospect coming out of Cincinnati’s Archbishop Moeller High School. As a senior at Moeller, he was a finalist for 2022 Ohio Mr. Basketball, the GCL Conference Player of the Year, the Ohio Player of the Year by Cincinnati.com, and a Division I first-team All-Ohio honoree.
Mahaffey is one of the few returning players to the Buckeyes, and his role will look much different this year. He started all but one game last season, and will come off the bench this year.
With the addition of Micah Parrish and Sean Stewart, they will push Mahaffey to the bench. More than likely, Devin Royal and John Mobley Jr. will come off the bench before Mahaffey, so he could be the 8th or 9th player in the rotation for Jake Diebler and the coaching staff.
Last year, as a starter, he played just over 22 minutes a game for Ohio State. I expect that number to drop a little, but he is still a valuable player to the team with his defense and as a returning player. He also played the second most minutes of any returning player, only to Bruce Thornton.
I would expect him to be the third guy off the bench, and play 14-18 minutes per game.
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Mahaffey returns to the Buckeyes having logged the second-most minutes behind Bruce Thornton.
Even though it’s October and fans are locked into college football, the fall also means that college basketball is right around the corner.
From now until the start of the hoops season in early November, we will be doing player previews and team previews for all the players on the men’s basketball team and the new look Big Ten Conference.
The Evan Mahaffey File
Name: Evan Mahaffey
Position: Forward
Class: Junior
High School/Previous School: Archbishop Moeller H.S./Penn State
Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
Weight: 200 pounds
Height: 6-foot-6
Breakdown
The Penn State transfer and Ohio native was one of the top overall producers for the Buckeyes last season, as one of four players to play in all 36 games and made 35 starts.
He was one of the team’s top defenders, and averaged 4.3 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 1.0 steals per game while also recording 25 blocks. As a scorer for the Buckeyes, he had four double-digit scoring games, including a career-high 16 against his former team, Penn State.
Before Ohio State, he played in 34 games as a true freshman at Penn State, averaging 2.8 points and 1.7 rebounds per game while shooting 56.9 percent from the field in an average of 9.4 minutes per contest
He is one of the few Ohio State players with tournament experience, as he appeared in both NCAA Tournament games for the Nittany Lions in 2023 against Texas A&M and Texas.
According to 247Sports, he was a consensus three-star prospect coming out of Cincinnati’s Archbishop Moeller High School. As a senior at Moeller, he was a finalist for 2022 Ohio Mr. Basketball, the GCL Conference Player of the Year, the Ohio Player of the Year by Cincinnati.com, and a Division I first-team All-Ohio honoree.
Expected Role
Mahaffey is one of the few returning players to the Buckeyes, and his role will look much different this year. He started all but one game last season, and will come off the bench this year.
With the addition of Micah Parrish and Sean Stewart, they will push Mahaffey to the bench. More than likely, Devin Royal and John Mobley Jr. will come off the bench before Mahaffey, so he could be the 8th or 9th player in the rotation for Jake Diebler and the coaching staff.
Last year, as a starter, he played just over 22 minutes a game for Ohio State. I expect that number to drop a little, but he is still a valuable player to the team with his defense and as a returning player. He also played the second most minutes of any returning player, only to Bruce Thornton.
I would expect him to be the third guy off the bench, and play 14-18 minutes per game.
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LGHL Buckeyes and Nittany Lions set for the always thrilling, big-game, marque 12 noon kickoff
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Buckeyes and Nittany Lions set for the always thrilling, big-game, marque 12 noon kickoff
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All the Buckeye news thats fit to re-print.
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Matt Tamanini, Land-Grant Holy Land
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Kickoff time, TV set for OSU’s upcoming road trip to Penn State
Joey Kaufman, The Columbus Dispatch
Ohio State adds big visitor to guest list for Nebraska game
Gene Ross, Land-Grant Holy Land
Ryan Day Lasered In On Ohio State’s Defensive Dilemmas During Buckeyes’ Bye Week
Andy Anders, Eleven Warriors
Four thoughts on Ohio State football in the second half of the 2024 season
Bill Landis, Dotting The Eyes
Stock Market Report: Special Big Ten edition, Is Indiana the standout stock of the league
Justin Golba, Land-Grant Holy Land
This makes me very, very happy. But also, don’t count out a loss to Little Brother and going 5-7 and not making a bowl game!
Stat Pack: Where Ohio State stands statistically after Week 8
Patrick Murphy, Bucknuts
You’re Nuts: Who is Ohio State’s biggest non-Oregon threat in the Big Ten?
Josh Dooley and Gene Ross, Land-Grant Holy Land
Entering final season, Taylor Thierry key to Ohio State women’s basketball success
Thomas Costello, Land-Grant Holy Land
Men’s Soccer: Ohio State Earns No. 1 NCAA Committee Ranking
Ohio State Athletics
Women’s Golf: Choi, Hollenbaugh Fire Rounds in the 60s as Buckeyes Tie for Fourth at Jim West Challenge
Ohio State Athletics
Now they are saying that 247 was hacked, but then why did they have the graphic made? ️
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Matt Tamanini via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Barbara J. Perenic/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK
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!
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On the Gridiron
Kickoff time, TV set for OSU’s upcoming road trip to Penn State
Joey Kaufman, The Columbus Dispatch
️ Game Time Announcement
Penn State
️ Beaver Stadium
️ Saturday, Nov. 2
@CFBONFOX
12 P.M. pic.twitter.com/AqWxcRQrG9
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) October 21, 2024
Ohio State adds big visitor to guest list for Nebraska game
Gene Ross, Land-Grant Holy Land
Ryan Day Lasered In On Ohio State’s Defensive Dilemmas During Buckeyes’ Bye Week
Andy Anders, Eleven Warriors
Four thoughts on Ohio State football in the second half of the 2024 season
Bill Landis, Dotting The Eyes
Stock Market Report: Special Big Ten edition, Is Indiana the standout stock of the league
Justin Golba, Land-Grant Holy Land
This makes me very, very happy. But also, don’t count out a loss to Little Brother and going 5-7 and not making a bowl game!
Stat Pack: Where Ohio State stands statistically after Week 8
Patrick Murphy, Bucknuts
You’re Nuts: Who is Ohio State’s biggest non-Oregon threat in the Big Ten?
Josh Dooley and Gene Ross, Land-Grant Holy Land
On the Hardwood
Entering final season, Taylor Thierry key to Ohio State women’s basketball success
Thomas Costello, Land-Grant Holy Land
Outside the Shoe and Schott
Men’s Soccer: Ohio State Earns No. 1 NCAA Committee Ranking
Ohio State Athletics
Women’s Golf: Choi, Hollenbaugh Fire Rounds in the 60s as Buckeyes Tie for Fourth at Jim West Challenge
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Now they are saying that 247 was hacked, but then why did they have the graphic made? ️
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LGHL Silver Bullets Podcast: Ohio State’s bye week, Big Ten results and Nebraska preview
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Silver Bullets Podcast: Ohio State’s bye week, Big Ten results and Nebraska preview
Michael Citro via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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Will the Huskers go after Denzel Burke on Saturday? | Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
The Buckeyes complete their second “improvement week” and prep for the Huskers.
With the Ohio State Buckeyes on their second bye week of the 2024 season, it provided a great opportunity for us to focus on some of the other teams around the Big Ten. With that in mind, we opened this week’s show with a trip around the other B1G results to see how everyone was doing.
It was a bad weekend to be an Iowa Hawkeyes or a Michigan Wolverine — is there ever a good week to be a Michigan Wolverine though? — and the wheels seem to have come off for Rutgers. On the flip side, Michigan State notched an important win and Indiana looks as formidable as it has been in my lifetime. We discuss some of the key talking points.
After looking around the conference and the country, we turned our attention toward the Buckeyes’ upcoming game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The Huskers were humbled on Saturday and will be looking to bounce back with a much stronger defensive performance than they had against Indiana. Dylan Raiola, a former OSU quarterback commit, will no doubt feel like he has something to prove to Ohio State fans, even though it wasn’t the Buckeyes’ fault he decided to flip — not once, but twice. Raiola started the year strong but has not looked great the last two games.
We made our score predictions and selected the players we thought might have good games on Saturday against Nebraska.
We also looked at the Ohio State players who were named “Midseason All-Americans,” although we don’t agree that that’s actually a thing, and we had another black stripe removal to discuss.
We would love to hear from you, so please reach out with your feedback and questions below in the comments section or send us an email. Any questions directed toward us will be answered on our next show.
Be sure to subscribe, rate, review, share, and follow the show over on Twitter at @SilvrBulletsPod.
As always, thanks for listening!
0:21 - The Buckeyes were off over the weekend, but there was plenty of drama around the rest of the Big Ten.
33:01 - The Buckeyes get set to take on a Nebraska Cornhuskers team that just got humbled by Indiana — and a former OSU quarterback commit.
Continue reading...
Michael Citro via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Will the Huskers go after Denzel Burke on Saturday? | Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
The Buckeyes complete their second “improvement week” and prep for the Huskers.
With the Ohio State Buckeyes on their second bye week of the 2024 season, it provided a great opportunity for us to focus on some of the other teams around the Big Ten. With that in mind, we opened this week’s show with a trip around the other B1G results to see how everyone was doing.
It was a bad weekend to be an Iowa Hawkeyes or a Michigan Wolverine — is there ever a good week to be a Michigan Wolverine though? — and the wheels seem to have come off for Rutgers. On the flip side, Michigan State notched an important win and Indiana looks as formidable as it has been in my lifetime. We discuss some of the key talking points.
After looking around the conference and the country, we turned our attention toward the Buckeyes’ upcoming game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The Huskers were humbled on Saturday and will be looking to bounce back with a much stronger defensive performance than they had against Indiana. Dylan Raiola, a former OSU quarterback commit, will no doubt feel like he has something to prove to Ohio State fans, even though it wasn’t the Buckeyes’ fault he decided to flip — not once, but twice. Raiola started the year strong but has not looked great the last two games.
We made our score predictions and selected the players we thought might have good games on Saturday against Nebraska.
We also looked at the Ohio State players who were named “Midseason All-Americans,” although we don’t agree that that’s actually a thing, and we had another black stripe removal to discuss.
We would love to hear from you, so please reach out with your feedback and questions below in the comments section or send us an email. Any questions directed toward us will be answered on our next show.
Be sure to subscribe, rate, review, share, and follow the show over on Twitter at @SilvrBulletsPod.
As always, thanks for listening!
0:21 - The Buckeyes were off over the weekend, but there was plenty of drama around the rest of the Big Ten.
33:01 - The Buckeyes get set to take on a Nebraska Cornhuskers team that just got humbled by Indiana — and a former OSU quarterback commit.
Continue reading...
