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RB CJ Donaldson (Official Thread)

pnuts34
brodybuck21 said:
CJ left it all out there

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These kids give their all for the team and the university. It always pisses me off when fans think a player has to be from OH or attended OSU for multiple years to have an emotional investment in the program. This kid got to OSU literally a year ago, and he's sobbing like a baby. And the fact that he played against his hometown school nonetheless
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

buckeyemania11
ORD_Buckeye said:
Byes are going to have to go away. 7 of 8 isn't a statistical aberration.

And oh yeah, SEC is 0-2 against ooc teams while the B1G is 2-1 and went belt-to-ass in the only head to head match up.

Last year, the B1G was 5-3 against ooc teams, and the sec was as 2-3. Head to head was 2-0 for the B1G.

It looks like the 12 team playoff is finally going to kill the SEC Uber Alles narrative.
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Preseason polls still help the usual suspects keep the SEC DOMINANCE narrative going. We all know how this works, a handful of SEC teams get over ranked in preseason, then other SEC teams beat them to become over ranked as well and they all hold up as "quality wins" to ESPN and co at the end of the year even when those teams end up with 4+ losses. It's a never ending predictable cycle.

I'm waiting for the articles about how the SEC got "screwed" having to play games against each other in the 1st round and the quarter finals and how that means these playoff results aren't meaningful. When in reality they should be thankful that they got gifted 1 semi final team by getting to play each other. Ole Miss and UGA both woulda last to any other quarterfinal team outside of Bamas corpse
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2026 PA K Jacobo Echeverria (Verbal Offer)

Jaxbuck
bigdog3300 said:
Interesting. Not one of the 27 kickers ranked by 247, but Kicker Training has him as the highest uncommitted kicker. Has a long of 41 yards this season. He does have an unusual name though, which is a bonus for kickers.....
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Kickers with names that sound like soccer players are always good.

It's science
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2026 College Football Playoffs Discussion

Captain Buckeye
Gizmo said:
Need to "expand" to 8. Too many teams already don't belong, and that would get rid of one team having a longer layoff.
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Nah more is better. Miami doesn’t get in this year, we don’t get in last year if under the 4 team model.

I don’t like the long wait though from the last game of the year until New Years Eve.

Go to 16 teams but fix the layoff.
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Non-Playoff Bowl Games Discussion Thread

Jaxbuck
ScriptOhio said:
Duke's Mayo Bowl
ESPN
8:00 PM
Wake Forest (8-4) vs Mississippi State (5-7)

In the 2025 college football season, several 5-7 teams declined bowl bids, including Florida State, Auburn, UCF, Baylor, Kansas, Rutgers, and Temple, primarily to focus on player development and the transfer portal, disrupting bowl-filling efforts for games like the Birmingham Bowl. These teams often expected their season to be over and had already moved on, making it difficult to field a team, unlike some bowl-eligible teams that also opted out due to coaching changes or playoff snubs.

Birmingham Bowl: Georgia Southern (now 7-6) 29 defeated Appalachian State (now 5-8) 10.

Just sayin': When 5-7 gets you into a bowl game (needless to say) there are just too many bowl games.
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I believe the first game of the day features another 5-7 team (playing a 6-6 team). Rice and Texas State or some such critter?
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

Telekinesis
knuckifyoubuck said:
OSU, IU, and Oregon would have been so sweet. I'll get over it, but very disappointed still in how we played and how the ball bounced on NYE. No cope about bye weeks or anything else, just raw dogging my dissapointment realizing we got our shit shoved in by Miami lol fucking bullshit
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This is all true, but I’m still proud of how our guys finished. They didn’t quit and still had Miami fans nervous as hell in the second half.

Bama got completely ran off the field and embarrassed. :lol:

Still hurts, but the Buckeyes never gave up or folded against anyone. They kept swinging.
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Koi Perich (S Minnesota)

Captain Buckeye
billmac91 said:
I’d think Oregon will be big players for Koi as well….Id love to see us get involved, but agree it will be an expensive acquisition.
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He can’t cost more than Downs right? I’d think this is the player where it’s worth it.

Normally I don’t want higher priced guys. But if they’re sure fire starters then you have to make that call.

Just roll over a portion of the money set aside for Downs. Important player here and you’re right Oregon you have to believe will come after him too. Everyone will.

Just have to hope our prior relationship with him and our defensive style for the safety position will entice him. I think it will and I think he’ll likely be paid nicely too.
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K Jayden Fielding (All B1G, National Champion)

Captain Buckeye
billmac91 said:
There’s “the best you got” in practice, which it sounds like he consistently wins.

And then there’s “the best you got” in clutch moments.

I think we all concede he’s a talented kicker in non-clutch moments. MaCafe, who is big on kickers, had great things to say about him from camps he’d been too (big leg for smaller size kicker)….

All that said, the sample size is large enough to know he’s not it. We brought in a transfer portal kicker from the MAC, and he didn’t get any run in-game presumably bc Fielding “out-kicked” him in practice.

I don’t now, at a certain point, don’t you have to make a change?? You can never truly replicate in-game situations on the practice field.
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Oh I agree with you. You can’t put Fielding back out there to hit kicks when it matters. I’m shocked he hit that kick at the end to get the natty (almost missed that btw).

At this point you have to go get a kicker who has shown the ability to hit from 40+ in a game consistently. Then who cares what practice looks like because Fielding being good in practice doesn’t help when you need a game tying 27 yard field goal.
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K Jayden Fielding (All B1G, National Champion)

cmstophe
Mike80 said:
I'm not going to crush the kid - unlike about 60% of the non-BP Buckeye fanbase, I don't get my jollies screeching about kickers.

Literally no one in the locker room feels worse about it than he does.

I do have some concerns about 'staying with your guy' too long but that's a Ryan Day problem, not a Jayden Fielding problem. There's putting people in a position to succeed or fail, and then there's trotting a guy out who has shown a propensity for not getting the job done. Everyone has their ceiling and their limitations, and it's ENTIRELY on the coaches to find them, understand what they are, and do what's best for the PROGRAM and the PLAYER.
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No point in “crushing” him or anything.

The fact of the matter is he isn’t good enough to be kicking here and Day’s refusal to address the kicking game has cost us dearly for years, and a lot of “what-ifs.” That’s really all that needs to be said.

It needs to be a priority this offseason and, nothing personal, Fielding cannot kick another game at OSU. (I have no clue his eligibility or if this was already a foregone conclusion and I also do not care)

I trust that that will be the case.
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

TampaBuckeyes
Greyshirt said:
I prefer to keep it 12 teams but first 2 rounds are home games for higher seeds. Additionally, the quarters should be played before Christmas. Way too long of a break.

What advantage did OSU get by being a top 4 seed? They played an away game at a half empty stadium. Again the whole set up is about money and not the actual game of football.
The teams with byes should have a home game and it should be mid December. Then all 4 teams have a 2 week layoff until the New Year Days bowls. Then the Final Game around Jan 8-10

This seems so simple and logical to me
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Id be ok with this. You move the first round up to the week after CCG and the next round to the Saturday before Christmas. Then you’ve got 8-12 days off before the new years semis.
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Google Ohio State football expected to get a visit from one of the top defenders in the transfer portal with it now open - A to Z Sports

Ohio State football expected to get a visit from one of the top defenders in the transfer portal with it now open - A to Z Sports
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2026 College Football Playoffs Discussion

ScriptOhio
TampaBuckeyes said:
Didn’t watch the games yesterday but looking at the scores I think we have enough data points on rest vs rust.

Next year should be 16 and get rid of the byes. Indiana just has an underdog mindset that keeps them focused. Only top-4 seed to make it out of 8 so far.
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What will the College Football Playoff look like in 2026? The primary options as deadline nears

It remains to be seen whether next season’s Playoff format will be determined before this season’s champion has been crowned.
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What will the College Football Playoff look like in 2026? The primary options as deadline nears​

Updated Jan. 2, 2026

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With an extra six weeks to talk about it, the administrators who oversee the College Football Playoff are making one last push to expand the postseason format in time for the 2026 season.

ESPN gave the CFP management committee a reprieve by extending a Dec. 1 deadline to inform the network of just how many Playoff games will be played next season to Jan. 23. The deadline will not be extended again.

The options haven’t changed much since late summer:
  • Stay at a 12-team field with five spots for the highest-ranked conference champions, which is the default if consensus on an expansion plan cannot be reached.
  • Expand to 16 teams next year by adding four at-large spots to the current bracket.
  • Expand to 24 teams, which would require more than one year’s notice to implement.
Agreement between the SEC and Big Ten — essential for any change — remains uncertain, but a couple of potential compromises could provide a path to resolution and a larger Playoff for the 2026 season.

If the Big Ten is willing to back away from the field mostly being set via automatic qualifiers — which the league appears to be now, people familiar with the direction of discussions believe — maybe the SEC would be open to doubling the size of the field within the next two or three years?

The Athletic spoke to several people involved in or briefed on the discussions to get an idea of where the possibility of expansion stands heading toward a pivotal in-person gathering of CFP officials, the day before the Jan. 19 national championship game in South Florida.

The odds of expansion seem to be increasing, but this is still very much an active negotiation.

“Expansion is a necessity,” one person familiar with the discussions said. “The question is when and how?”

The SEC has made where it stands more than clear over the last month or so, from commissioner Greg Sankey to Mississippi State president Mark Keenum, who heads the CFP’s board of managers. The SEC wants a 16-team Playoff with as few spots dedicated to automatic qualifiers (AQs) as possible.
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Expanding the Playoff to 24 teams would be complicated, starting with the elimination of conference championship games and the reworking of TV contracts that include them, and it is not something college football could flip the switch on less than a year out from the 2026 season. Realistically, the soonest a postseason of that size could be implemented would be the 2027 season, but there is at least some interest beyond Big Ten country.

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark publicly acknowledged being intrigued by 24. The components of the model, which would de-emphasize the selection committee and create a more clearly defined path to qualification through conference play, address a lot of common complaints about the current format and the changing standards of success in major college football.

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Just sayin': Might as well just go to 16 teams. If they had 16 teams this year; #11 Notre Dame, #12 BYU, #13 Texas, and #14 Vanderbilt would have gotten in; and in lieu of Notre Dame and Texas, #15 Utah and #16 USC would be bitching.... :lol:
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WR Coach Cortez Hankton (Official Thread)

RugbyBuck
Of course
Thump said:
We will miss Hartline. You are crazy.
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How do you get that I don't think we'll miss Hartline from my post? Of course we will and I was pushing him for HC-in-waiting all year. The facts are, though: that he didn't rotate players in and you can only develop so much without playing; seasons are longer with more chance of injuries in the CFP scenario and with him this year we had receivers trying to learn on the job out of necessity rather than having been brought along so that they've seen the field when/if you need them; and he's gone and there's nothing crazy about hoping that Cortez might have a different sense of development than The Hartline Method.
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

ORD_Buckeye
Byes are going to have to go away. 7 of 8 isn't a statistical aberration.

And oh yeah, SEC is 0-2 against ooc teams while the B1G is 2-1 and went belt-to-ass in the only head to head match up.

Last year, the B1G was 5-3 against ooc teams, and the sec was as 2-3. Head to head was 2-0 for the B1G.

It looks like the 12 team playoff is finally going to kill the SEC Uber Alles narrative.
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