buckeyemania11 said:

Mingo is also Ped State's 2nd lead scorer and their top assist man. That's a very key missing player for them.

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You would think that at first glance, but it's PSU. Their backups are about the same quality as their starters. This just means Tunca will play more, and he scored 13 points in 18 minutes of Game 1 between these schools. Rice scored a career-high 20 against OSU, this gives him more of a path to PT as well. Those guys will be able to fill the void offensively, the only question is will they be as capable defensively.

Glad someone did it before I could

Oh8ch said:

Who's the tuff guy now Lou?

I actually loved the guy.

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College Football Spring Rankings 2026: CFN Top 25​

CFN reveals its 2026 College Football Spring Top 25, including the expectations, transfer impact, and bold predictions heading into the season.

1 Ohio State​

Ohio State was the No. 1 team at the end of the regular season, and yet 2025 didn’t represent the program’s best work. No one can touch the Buckeye superstars on offense, and the defense just brought in an NFL Combine's worth of transfers to take over.

Last year, Ohio State was almost forgotten about over the second half of the season with its relatively easy slate. This year? At Texas, Illinois, at Iowa, at Indiana, at USC, Oregon, at Nebraska, Michigan. (The 2026 season can’t get here fast enough.)

2025 Record: 12-2
CFN 2025 Preseason Rank: 4
CFN 2025 Final Rank: 4
Top Transfer In: James Smith, DT Alabama
Top Transfer Out: Quincy Porter, WR to Notre Dame
2026 Realistic Expectation: Win the national championship (and beat Michigan)
- 2026 Ohio State Schedule Analysis

2 Oregon
3 Indiana
4 Notre Dame
5 Georgia
6 LSU
7 Miami
8 Oklahoma
9 Texas
10 Texas Tech
11 Alabama
12 USC
13 Ole Miss
14 Texas A&M
15 BYU
16 Michigan
17 Washington
18 Arizona
19 Penn State
20 Iowa
21 South Carolina
22 Utah
23 Missouri
24 Kansas State
25 UCLA

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Mingo is also Ped State's 2nd lead scorer and their top assist man. That's a very key missing player for them.

RIP, Lou. Thanks for your efforts as an assistant on the 1968 Buckeye National Champs.

But I’ll always remember that during your entire life span, the Buckeyes NEVER LOST TO NOTRE DAME.

Who's the tuff guy now Lou?

I actually loved the guy.

BuckBackHome said:

College Football Coaching Legend Lou Holtz Dies at 89 Years Old

Lou Holtz, an assistant coach for Ohio State’s 1968 national championship team who went on to become a College Football Hall of Fame head coach, dies at 89 years old.

www.elevenwarriors.com

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Lou Holtz was an assistant coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team in 1968, when the team won the national championship. Holtz was part of Woody Hayes' coaching staff.

From 2005 to 2014 Lou Holtz worked at ESPN a College Football Show with Trev Alberts and Mark May (who both hated Ohio State with a passion), Lou usually stuck up for Ohio State.



R.I.P.

Ahiacitian said:

I think of low leverage middle relievers as your innings eaters that are asked to come in when your team is behind. Your setup guys are asked to protect a lead of three runs or less after the 5th inning. IMO, there is a big difference between the two.

But I will reiterate I am fine with heisman’s categories.

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Agree and agree.

BYU is a 6-seed by Lunardi with a 8-9 conference record.

The line opened OSU -8.5 and has gone down to OSU -6.5. Analytics give OSU a 75-77% chance of winning, but obviously PSU will put up a fight with their last home game of the season here tonight.

Like clockwork

Thump said:

Going tonight and expecting an "L."

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Good 3rd period come from behind "W" last night.

Good analysis by Ramzy Nasralla for 11W of what went wrong in 2025:

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Four Reasons Why​

The NFL Combine was a healthy dose of confirmation bias.

Everything that transpired in Indy over the weekend simply reinforced what you've either heard, read or said yourself for weeks. How did the Buckeyes lose back-to-back games to end its season with these guys on the team?

This is the type of angst that can consume you forever, like all of those other seasons piled up in Ohio State's reviled Squandered Season cabinet that leak out every offseason. So let's bury 2025. A righteous cleansing, because lot of you (not you, reader) are way into your feelings too often.

We'll start with the hardest lesson in 136 years of Ohio State football, which is that even if the lessons of 2025 are learned and retained, college football is now changing at a velocity which may render them artifacts rather than principles in short order. Planning to build something meaningful in two or three seasons is a wasted effort. Win now is every program's mandate.

The Buckeyes are not going to solve how last season collapsed in winter so that 2026 turns out differently, because it's a whole new team, which will have a seasoned OC calling plays and an actual proven coordinator for the third unit, which has been an anchor on the program since the pandemic. Those NFL Combine highlight machines will be wearing different helmets.

The head coach, several faces and all of the expectations remain the same. It's time to cleanse ourselves of 2025 - here are the four reasons the Buckeyes didn't go back-to-back as CFP champions:

• Special Teams [Field Goals, punting, a just-get-off-the-field mentality creating a huge deficit of hidden yards and costly penalties - a mediocre dynamic now as entrenched in the program as Wide Receiver U]
  • Remedy: Robbie Discher hired. First qualified hire for that role since Matt Barnes in 2019.
• Offensive Philosophy & Execution [failing to accommodate for an inexperienced QB against talent-equated opponents, chronic Red Zone inefficiencies not involving the aforementioned Field Goal kicker, sticking with long-developing routes while OL was in shambles, dialing up a critical 3rd down conversion for TE4 while benching WRs, sticking with a silent count vs. Miami, lack of game control agility vis a vis When It's Time to Turn Up the Gas, We Will]
  • Remedy: Arthur Smith hired, Cortez Hankton hired.
• Talent Evaluation [critical misses, notably Ethan Onianwa as the program's biggest whiff in the portal era, inflated impression of TE room's capabilities, RB4 was RB1 to start the season, a walk-on was WR4 at WRU to end the season]
  • Remedy: A work in progress, always.
• Personnel Decisions[allowing a first-time play-caller to run the offense, which had negative effects on his position group and the offense, his departure the week of the B1G championship, hiring an OL coach who is more specialized in other elements of the offense than OL coaching]
  • Remedy: Prepare for uninvited chaos.

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Utah State got absolutely destroyed by a bad UNLV team late night last night.

The MWC becoming a 1 bid league is becoming more and more likely.

DZ83CK said:

BYU, after a 16-1 start to the season, now sits at 20-10. The Cougars have lost 8 of their last 11 games. Must be nice to struggle mightily down the stretch of the season and still make the tournament.

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Yep. They could lose to Texas Tech in their final regular season game and get bounced in their 1st Big 12 tourney game and they would still make it without landing in Dayton.