Latest rumors have a new LSU head coaching favorite, and the domino effect could also land them their next starting quarterback​

The next LSU head coach and quarterback may both be on the market.

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Would Sam Leavitt come with Dillingham?​

Sometimes coincidences happen, but it does feel like odd timing to see Dillingham’s name begin to gain some steam, while a report also surfaces that Arizona State quarterback Sam Leavitt will be eyeing opportunities that are out there. It is quite possible that those two bits of news aren’t related, but it does feel a little bit fishy. If Leavitt does opt for the Transfer Portal this off-season, he is a player that will be in very high demand.

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Fungo Squiggly said:

Can any of the wrestling fanatics here explain what Nebraska's deal was? They got smoked by Oklahoma State almost as badly as they got smoked by OSU. Their guys were generally higher ranked than the Bucks but got beaten handily. Were their guys just over-ranked? Bad day? Injuries? A little of this, a little of that? I know upsets happen, but complete domination of a higher ranked team seems pretty unusual. I took a peek at the huskerboard thread but there wasn't much insight there other than they got their asses kicked.

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It could be a lot of things....they could have been a bit over-ranked but there's a system behind how guys are ranked and seeded.

It could be - totally a theory - that a lot of their guys are having to do significant weight cuts to get to their weight classes and they ran out of gas. That's happened a few times to me with my middle school and high school wrestlers. I was never a huge fan of big time cuts but from time to time it was the only way to get a super talented kid on the mat and so long as it was within their Alpha, we're good. But it still takes its toll.

Joel Klatt shares amazed assessment on how Ohio State beat UCLA in Week 12​

The Ohio State Buckeyes dominated the UCLA Bruins 48-10 at the "Shoe" this past Saturday, notching their 10th win of the 2025 season and marching on towards a season-defining game against TTUN in Week 14.

What was most impressive about the win was that the star of the game wasn't one of the usual suspects. Running back Bo Jackson had 112 yards on just 15 carries, with a touchdown run to punctuate his performance.

FOX Sports' Joel Klatt shared an amazed assessment of the performance, focusing on how the Buckeyes were able to gain 440 yards of offense, 222 of it on the ground, without Carnell Tate at all and without Jeremiah Smith for a good chunk of the game.

Klatt shouted out OSU for having a better rushing performance than the Utah Utes, who had more yardage (286 yards) but on far fewer carries.

“Even without Carnell Tate on the field and no Jeremiah Smith late in the game, what did they do? They just decided to run the football for 6.7 per carry, which is the most per carry UCLA has given up since 2019," Klatt said on Monday's edition of his podcast.

"They run it better against UCLA than anybody has this entire season, including Utah. Maybe Ohio State can run the football pretty well.”

With the main mission of the season getting ready for the Wolverines and "The Game," Ohio State has one more game to complete its tune-up this weekend in its home finale against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.

With Jackson and the RB room up and running -- Isaiah West and James Peoples both had seven or more yards per carry against the Bruins as well -- the Buckeyes are big game ready. Right on time for the biggest game of Ryan Day's career in Ann Arbor on November 29.
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Ohio State QB Julian Sayin was nearly hurt against UCLA on a play that is illegal in the NFL​

The NCAA may want to make this play against the rules after Julian Sayin was nearly hurt.

Julian Sayin was a victim of the hip-drop tackle against UCLA​

The 2025 NFL season is the first in which the league has outlawed the “hip-drop tackle” due to the injuries it has caused. A hip-drop tackle occurs when a defender wraps up a ball carrier and drops their hips to the ground to bring the player down. It’s dangerous because defenders often land on the ball carrier’s legs or ankles during the motion. In the first half against UCLA, Sayin was brought down with that style of tackle and came up limping.

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Julian Sayin eases the mind of Buckeye Nation with an update on his injury scare that happened in the win over UCLA​

Julian Sayin had a brief moment where he limped off the field in Ohio State’s win over UCLA in Week 12.

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Julian Sayin provides positive update on what appeared to be an ankle or foot injury​

Ohio State’s starting quarterback made a trip to the injury tent on Saturday after coming up limping from a hit on third down in the first half. Sayin appeared to land awkwardly and was checked out briefly before returning to the game.

“Just ended up stepping on it a little bit weird, but I’m feeling good now,” Sayin said after the game. “Not too bad, just stepped on it a little bit weird.”
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Just sayin': The hip drop tackle should be illegal in college football too.

OregonBuckeye said:

I don't have a problem with it. I find Juck cringey honestly

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Juck is a goober, but he's dead on accurate about Minny adopting that row the boat shit.

P.J. Fleck still believes the Gophers can compete at the 'highest level'​

Fleck was brutally honest about how Minnesota fits into the current state of college football.



The Gophers lost to then No. 8 Oregon by 29 points on Friday night in Eugene. Head coach P.J. Fleck talked about "closing the gap" between the top tier of the Big Ten after the game, but after losing their fourth straight road game by an average of 29.5 points, that feels like a pipe dream.

"Maybe it wasn't a great choice of words for me to talk about closing the gap. But, yeah, I feel like we're going to compete at the highest level. That's the person I am, that's the competitor I am. I wouldn't coach if I didn't think that. Just because you want that, doesn't mean that's going to happen," Fleck said on Monday.

"We're sitting at 6-4. There's a lot of really good football teams in the country that are 6-4, including us. It's really, really hard to win in 2025. There are not many undefeated teams anymore, you look across the board."

The Gophers are 6-4, and they're currently in a five-way tie for sixth place in the Big Ten at 4-3 in conference play. With an average scoring margin of -8.3, which ranks 105th in FBS, it feels like Minnesota is much closer to 5-5 or even 4-6.

"When you're looking at the two big conferences, with the SEC or the Big Ten, we said this years ago, with 18 teams and 16 teams, we're going to beat up on each other. The records might not look like the records of the old," Fleck continued.
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Hopefully Patricia uses pretty much the same gameplan he did against Texas for this one. Arch was confused all game, Underwood is even worse than Arch at reading a defense, a lot of the same looks and he's liable to make some bad mistakes.

Ohio State sniffing around top-ranked Minnesota wide receiver recruit​

David Mack has produced eye-popping numbers for the Moorhead Spuds, who are in the state championship game against Edina.



David Mack will play for the Class 6A state title on Friday night as the Moorhead Spuds meet the Edina Hornets at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

Last Friday, Mack scored on a five-yard slant to help Moorhead secure a spot in the Prep Bowl with a 26-14 win over Lakeville South. Then he traveled to Columbus, Ohio, where he visited Ohio State University and met with the No. 1-ranked Buckeyes.

It's unclear how much interest the Buckeyes have in Mack, as it doesn't appear that he's been offered a scholarship by Ohio State. However, the Gophers were the first FBS team to extend an offer to the junior wide receiver.

Last season, as a sophomore, Mack caught 70 passes and 18 touchdowns. This season, he's blown those numbers away. In the regular season (eight games), Mack had 76 catches for 1,044 yards and 17 touchdowns. In four playoff games, he's totaled 38 receptions for 450 yards and eight touchdowns.

Add it all up, and Mack has 112 catches for 1,494 yards and 25 touchdowns this season.

According to 247Sports, the only offers Mack has received so far are from Minnesota and South Dakota State.
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Ohio State, Ryan Day just entered the race for a Minnesota WR making waves​

Ryan Day and the Ohio State Buckeyes have entered the fray for this Minnesota wide receiver.

Give it time, and things will surely work out. One of the things that the Ohio State Buckeyes have done better than seemingly everyone under Ryan Day's watch is recruit the best wide receivers in the country. It does not matter what part of the country they hail from, Ohio State is always closing. Yes, it absolutely helps that offensive coordinator Brian Hartline is the very best at what he does in this, too.

One such player the Buckeyes seem to a keen eye on is an unranked 2027 recruiting prospect from Minnesota in David Mack. The Moorhead, Minnesota native will be playing for a Class 6A State Championship on Friday night in Minneapolis. After helping the Moorhead Spuds win last Friday night, he made his way to Columbus to see the Buckeyes demolish the UCLA Bruins during Big Ten play.

With him getting a photo op with his primary recruiter Hartline, could this mean Mack is now well on his way to Columbus in 2027? Then again, what happens if Hartline gets to lead his own program before the time Mack can enroll in college? Let that sink in... Regardless, Ohio State showing interest in a recruit who only has offers from home state Minnesota and South Dakota State speaks volumes.

Clearly, the big winner in all this is Mack, who could use this Ohio State visit to his advantage here.

Ohio State has a reputation for being Wide Receiver U in college football​

For a program like Ohio State that tends to know what it is doing when it comes to evaluating a certain position group, to the victors go the spoils. In a way, maybe the Buckeyes used the Minnesota offer Mack had as a way of knowing that he can play in this league? It stinks for a team like Minnesota, as the Golden Gophers just are not as well-resourced as Ohio State. Then again, who really cares?
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ORD_Buckeye said:

Safe to say that you dodged a bullet with the current one.

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we're actually pretty good at dodging bullets from other people.
it's the ones we fire into our own dicks that never seem to miss.

ORD_Buckeye said:

I have to admit that I'm nervous about this year. Those cheating cocksuckers are going to be playing at home with a trip to Indy and a spot in the playoffs on the line. We're going to be playing to not get hurt by their dirty bullshit. Also, might be going into it without Tate and Smith.

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Im cautiously optimistic

I think we can run on them this year. Jackson keeps getting better as does the run game as a whole and scUMs DL is not the wall it was last year. Not that Day should run right into the middle of the D a bunch again. But our RBs aren't putting up a 22 carries for 67 yards stat line against them this year.

Defensively, The only thing that concerns me is our defense forgetting how to tackle and contain and letting Underwood get a bunch of crap yards on long scrambles. You gotta make him beat us throwing the ball, I don't think he can.

Can't have any dumb turnovers again either. That 1st Howard INT last year pretty much set the tone for the whole game.

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ORD_Buckeye said:

I have to admit that I'm nervous about this year. Those cheating cocksuckers are going to be playing at home with a trip to Indy and a spot in the playoffs on the line. We're going to be playing to not get hurt by their dirty bullshit. Also, might be going into it without Tate and Smith.

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Seems very doubtful we won't have Smith and Tate

Edit: To be less confusing with the double negative lol, I think it's very likely they play

Virginia Tech

ORD_Buckeye said:

While I think staying at Ole Piss is the smart move in the NIL/portal era, I'm guessing that Joey is out or he would have signed an extension already.

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his agent in Jimmy Sexton.

he's playing chess for all of his clients right now, not just Kiffin.

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Weird how Rivals used to sort of suck and now 247 sort of sucks.

Fuck em. Gonna break em off

USC has 35 commits? My goodness

UCLA