Jake said:

Doyel is no longer at CBS Sports but seems to have been replaced by another moron named Brian Jones. Mr. Jones just gave his CFP predictions on live TV:

Penn State over Clemson in a semi-final, Alabama over Penn State in the title game.

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Jaxbuck said:

The cult might have one of his family members or something. Let’s not rush to judgement.

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‘m gonna go CTE... he was an LB at Tejas back in the late 80s/early 90s and played pro a few years...

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If they don't have an end of game, Hail Mary trick play in the playbook called the 'Shanghai Surprise' then an opportunity has been missed.

Tennessee Volunteers OL Cade Mays granted transfer waiver by NCAA

The NCAA has granted Tennessee offensive lineman Cade Mays a transfer waiver after initially denying his request, Volunteers coach Jeremy Pruitt told reporters after Thursday's practice.

Mays, who played in all 14 games at Georgia last season before transferring in January, must still receive a waiver from the SEC to play for the Volunteers this season. He is an expected starter on Tennessee's offensive line if he is eligible.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/college-footba...ers-ol-cade-mays-granted-transfer-waiver-ncaa

Nominees for the 2021 class announced:

https://www.nfl.com/news/peyton-man...-nominees-for-pro-football-hall-of-fame-class

Eddie and Spiels are included again.

Eppy Epenesa, ladies and gentlemen!

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Only because I just looked at the Texans depth chart for fantasy.

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I looked her up for fantasy too.

A week before 9-11 family from Columbus was out here... I was chauffeuring around Manhattan... they had just gotten off the ferry from the Statue and were exhausted... I fought with them to do the twin towers... and the observation deck... they pissed and groaned... tired, exhausted and hungry... but they did it.. we were right there at the bottom of the island... my infamous "told ya so" to them

On 9-11 I was in the midst of remotely helping folks in NYC from home in NJ... but numerous BPers were there... within a few blocks... when it was happening...

Ohio State offers 2022 four-star safety
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Four-star Southeast Polk safety Xavier Nwankpa | via @xaviernwankpa01 on Twitter
The Buckeyes’ coaching staff was hard at work this Labor Day, offering one of the nation’s top DB’s.

Ohio State’s coaching staff has been hard at work on the recruiting front as of late. Last Tuesday, the Buckeyes earned their most recent commitment in 2022 TE Bennett Christian. However, almost just as important was the start of the official contact period for the 2022 recruiting class on the same day.

The Buckeyes have quickly hit the ground running, making contact with a handful of the nation’s top talents in next year’s recruiting class. On Labor Day, head coach Ryan Day and the Ohio State coaching staff continued that momentum by offering one of the top safety prospects in 2022.


Xavier Nwankpa (Altoona, IA/Southeast Polk) announced his official scholarship from the Buckeyes on Monday. The four-star safety now has 15 official scholarship offers, and Ohio State should quickly be viewed as legitimate contenders already.

OSU has an incredible reputation in recent years for developing defensive backs into first round NFL Draft picks. This pedigree, as well as Nwankpa being from Big Ten country, should help their chances in securing a commitment if there is serious mutual interest between the two parties.

In addition to Ohio State, Nwankpa has received offers from Iowa State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, and Florida. Therefore, while the Buckeyes should be viewed as contenders, there are a number of top programs in the mix that make this recruitment far from a lock.

Ohio State’s 2022 recruiting class is off to a solid start. The team has successfully brought in an impressive linebacker haul, led by five-star Gabe Powers and a pair of high four-stars in C.J. Hicks and Dasan McCullough. In addition to the linebacker haul, the Buckeyes have also earned a defensive commitment in four-star CB Jyaire Brown as well as a big blocker in four-star OT Tegra Tshabola.

The addition of a safety of Nwankpa’s caliber would help solidify a promising defensive presence in the future for Ohio State.

Nwankpa is the No. 9 safety in the 2022 class, the No. 2 recruit from Iowa and the No. 127 overall prospect in the country, according to the 247Sports Composite Rankings.

Quick Hits:

• Ohio State 2022 four-star OLB commit C.J. Hicks posted his highlights from week two of his high school junior season to Twitter on Monday. Check out what the Buckeyes will be getting in the Archbishop Alter star, courtesy of Hudl:

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Buckeye Bits: Ohio State gets their first 2021 signature, Heyward got paid, Braxton’s Spinniversary, more
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All of the latest Ohio State news from around the beat and beyond.

Happy Labor Day, friends! Hopefully your long weekend was spent soaking up these last few days of summer. Or if you’re like me, you may have spent your weekend decorating your home for fall. There is now not a single corner of my apartment that is pumpkin-less.

Let me just say, anyone who tells you that “they don’t want summer to end” either has a pool, lives by the ocean, does not live in a major city or is lying to your face. Once it hits late August/September, the novelty of summer has worn off. We’ve all taken our summer vacations, we’re sick of sweating every time we go outside and I swear the mosquito population doubles in size. Once it hits Sept. 1, summer is dead to me. She no longer exists. Yes, it’s still 80 degrees in Philly, but I don’t care. I’m ignoring her, consuming pumpkin-flavored everything, wearing hoodies and doing all the fall activities. Speaking of which...


Absolutely nothing screams fall like NFL Sundays. Waking up to a nice crisp 65-degree day, turning on SportsCenter to get a gist of the day’s lineup, putting on your team’s jersey, cracking open a pumpkin ale, the smell of buffalo chicken dip and chili slow cooking in the crockpot— yeah, football hits different in the fall.

While the loss of Ohio State’s football season still stings, the NFL picking back up this weekend should surely take the edge off. Things are looking up! *knocks aggressively on wood coffee table*

Let’s get into the day’s headlines.

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Column: Identifying the best possible Ohio State opener

Meredith Hein, LGHL

The Buckeyes were scheduled to kickoff on Saturday, but alas, they did not. So, Meredith took a look at who would make the perfect hypothetical opener for Ohio State based on timing, location and quality of opponent.

Ohio State making early impressions on a handful of 2022 standouts

Gene Ross, LGHL

Last Tuesday commenced the official contact period for the 2022 recruiting class, and Ryan Day and his staff hit the ground running, reaching out to a number of their top targets in hopes of making early, good impressions.

Ohio State 2020 Virtual Season Kickoff Preview: Week 1 vs. Buffalo Bulls

George Eisner, LGHL

Our Virtual Ohio State 2020 season kicked off on Saturday, and it was an absolute blast!


Be sure to toon in next Saturday to watch the virtual Buckeyes take on the virtual Oregon Ducks!

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While you were enjoying your Labor Day weekend, hopefully taking a break from Twitter and all the Big Ten chaos, Sir Yacht was still doing what he does best: lying! This tweet is by far my favorite one yet.


I’m so confused. Does he actually think he’s fooling anyone? Is he now doing it as a joke? Has it been a joke the whole time? What is his end goal?!


He’s not even exaggerating when he says “14th or 15th.”


During a press conference on Thursday, in regards to his communication with the Big Ten, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott told reporters that “a high priority for the Pac-12 would be to align our seasons” because “it would be awesome to have some of the traditional postseason opportunities the Pac-12 and Big Ten have enjoyed with each other.”

To which Austin Ward of Lettermen Row says: “No, it wouldn’t.”


And I’d have to agree. As Austin writes, “the Buckeyes are built to win it all right now,” and playing for anything less is just pointless.


Our Matt Tamanini is working on a column regarding all the silly rumors that have taken place over the last few weeks, but first, he needs some data.


Personally, I find them entertaining, but unimportant. These non-journalists’ sources (if they even exist) are not people in high places making the decisions. They’re playing with your emotions, begging for retweets and cannot be trusted. However, I find it thoroughly amusing to see what these people come up with. (Re: Ohio State may leave the Big Ten and go independent)


On Labor Day of 2015, Braxton Miller made his debut at H-Back for Ohio State and then made one of the most iconic plays in college football history.


Ohio State officially signed the first member of its recruiting class of 2021 on Saturday— Australian punter Jesse Mirco.


Mirco was able to sign early as he is 23 years old, however the rest of Ohio State’s 2021 recruiting class will have to wait until the first day of this year’s early signing period (Dec. 16) to sign.


Like I said above, NFL football is back this weekend, and Steve Helwagen of Bucknuts is here to help you get your Buckeye fix! Check out his breakdown of every single former Ohio State player on current NFL rosters.


And then check back into LGHL next Tuesday, as we will have a recap on how those former players did in their respective games.


Another former Buckeye got PAID paid.


Steelers defensive tackle Cam Heyward is now the NFL’s highest-paid defensive player over the age of 30. Heyward has spent his entire career with the Steelers, as they selected him in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft. This season marks his final year of his current contract with the team. Heyward has missed only 10 games in his nine NFL seasons, has been selected to each of the last three Pro Bowls, and earned All-Pro honors in 2017 and 2019.


NFL rookies Chase Young, Jeff Okudah, Damon Arnette and J.K. Dobbins are living proof that the Ohio State-NFL pipeline is alive and well.


Pain.

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Things are...not going well in Ann Arbor. One of the most popular rumors floating around is that Michigan’s president is the only one standing in the way of a college football season. Whether that’s true or not (its not), he has much bigger things to worry about right now.


The Graduate Employees’ Organization, which represents more than 2,000 graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants, have voted to strike until Friday in response to Michigan’s reopening plans.


Per the GEO’s press release:


The union is also asking undergraduate students not to attend class, virtually or in person, which, as said in the tweet above, could substantially disrupt academic operations throughout the week.


Two of my pet peeves: gender reveal parties and humans destroying the earth.


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Column: Identifying the best possible Ohio State opener
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Because by golly, we’ll have one eventually.

We might still have a day off to enjoy this Monday (and for those essential workers who do not have the day off, thank you for what you do, and I sincerely hope you get a break soon), but this Labor Day doesn’t really feel real. And the reason for that is obvious: We didn’t have college football kicking off Saturday.

Labor Day in the Hein household is a particularly jolly affair, since it also usually happens to fall close to my husband’s birthday. Under normal circumstances, we would make a trip out of heading to a game (including once to Arlington, Texas, for Michigan’s opener against Florida. I wore a shirt that said “she doesn’t even go here.”) or spend the weekend with friends parked in front of the television and drinking in the pageantry, getting our desperate fill like marathoners hydrating just after the finish line.

Things are different this year. Heck, I’d even take a Michigan opener at this point. But for now, we’re left to feed on the memories of Labor Day openers of seasons past. Obviously, this set of circumstances begs the question of what those circumstances are that make the best opener. So let’s jump in.

If we’re generalizing, there are three factors that play into the quality of an opener, and that’s in terms of (1) timing, (2) location and (3) quality of opponent. Timing refers both to the day of the week and the time of day the team plays, location to, well, location, and quality of opponent, naturally, to how premier the matchup is in terms of rankings and conference implications. These factors naturally interplay (an opener between Ohio State and Florida Atlantic in Boca Raton on Saturday night feels silly) but also feed into the ideal opener.

Let’s start with quality of opponent, because it’s not a simple binary of “good” or “bad.” Rankings, conference alignment and recency bias all come into play. What if Ohio State opened with Boise State? The Broncos might not be in a Power Five conference, but would certainly represent a formidable foe early in the season. But that’s not always the case. It’s certainly a wide berth between the Boise States of the world and the Akrons.

Unfortunately, often, non-Power Five teams start the season ranked lower than their talent, and they must work to prove themselves through maybe 10 weeks before they can enter the top-10. As a result, a non-Power Five opener might not have the panache in an opening matchup that it might, say, in a bowl game.

Additionally, given scheduling challenges - Ohio State has to schedule premier home-and-homes years in advance - knowing which non-Power Five opponents will be marquee matchups can be a challenge, and ultimately end up as a blunder or non-factor on the schedule.

There is still nuance even within the Power Five, because Ohio State could open with an in-conference opponent - like the Buckeyes did with Indiana in 2017 when JK Dobbins tore it up against Indiana. Personally, these games give me overwhelming anxiety because you find out immediately just how good your team is at the start of the season, and start to get a picture of the rest of the conference. Alarming, yes, but also grounding, and also hella exciting when Ohio State comes out on top.

When it comes to other Power Five conference matchups, games can act almost as an extension of bowl season, but it’s not always the same sentiment. Opening against Oregon State is certainly not the same as opening against Oregon: One feels like a Rose Bowl, while the other feels like the Motor City Bowl.

Playing anything but the top-three teams in the ACC, Big 12 or Pac-12 probably would evoke a negative sentiment, even if Ohio State scheduled the games with the best of intentions. For instance, consider when the Buckeyes faced Miami (FL) in the non-conference slate in 2010 and 2011 (neither of which was actually an opener). The Hurricanes were ranked 12th in 2010, but were unranked in 2011. The loss in 2011 then rang even worse for the Buckeyes.

Unfortunately, even for these premier matchups, scheduling as an opener is certainly not the norm, as home-and-homes are often scheduled for games two or three of the non-conference season.

Then there’s the recency bias which, once again, is further hindered by scheduling challenges. A team that is coming off a great bowl win will be next to impossible to schedule by the following opener, even if it’s what the people want to see.

So bottom line, I suppose, is that a quality opponent is preferable to a not-quality opponent. Duh. But the source of that quality opponent remains variable. That opponent can come from another Power Five conference or the Big Ten, but the off-chance a worthy non-Power Five opponent presents itself, I certainly wouldn’t be mad.

Location obviously plays another important role in determining the excitement of an opening matchup. No one really wants to play an away game to kickoff the season, even if it is the unfortunate necessity of scheduling home-and-homes.

As mentioned in regard to out of conference opponents, playing at a warm and sunny neutral site could help to recall bowl season. Given the timing of opening matchups, a trip to an away game can be a final and awesome conclusion to the summer over a long Labor Day weekend.

Meanwhile, playing at home in the Horseshoe evokes an unmatched home field advantage. Personally, I feel like we should keep bowl season to bowl season and enjoy our home games at Ohio Stadium while we can.

Finally there’s timing. Ohio State has only occasionally played openers on anything but Saturdays. In fact, this year, the Buckeyes were supposed to open on the road in Champaign to take on Illinois this past Thursday (sobs uncontrollably). There was that one time, as we’ve discussed previously, in 2017 when Ohio State took on Indiana in Bloomington on a Thursday evening. I think it’s pretty fun to have a game early in the week, so the focus remains exclusively on the Buckeyes.

Then there’s the question of kickoff. Noon games might be great for staying awake throughout the game, plus I don’t have to sit through myriad other games before I can get to my main event of the day: Ohio State versus whomever dares to take them on.

However, while it’s a rare thing, especially for an opener on a Saturday (for Ohio State at least), what’s better than a 7 p.m. ET kickoff under the lights, right?

If we put it all together, I guess the best matchup is just a slight variation on what we had back in 2017, which, I would argue, was the best opener in recent memory: a conference matchup on a Thursday night, only maybe this time it takes place in Columbus.

Anyway, that’s a look at the ideal opener for the Buckeyes — though now, I’d take a Saturday noon matchup on the road against Bowling Green.

On an unrelated note, if I may be so bold, maybe we should all become service academy football fans. At least we’re guaranteed a few games this year. Triple option, here we come!

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Ohio State making early impressions on a handful of 2022 standouts
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Four-star dual-threat QB Jacurri Brown | Andrew Ivins, 247Sports
The Buckeyes continue to build off the early momentum in next year’s cycle.

Last Tuesday began the official contact period for the 2022 recruiting class, and Ohio State’s coaching staff wasted no time reaching out to some of their top early targets in the cycle. Ryan Day seems to be pretty darn good at this whole recruiting thing, and he understands that to secure the nation’s top talents, you have to get in there early and make a good first impression.

That work continued over the holiday weekend, as Labor Day provided no breaks for the Buckeyes’ staff who are looking to secure the top group in the country in back-to-back years. They’ve gotten off to a blazing start in 2022, with their six-man class ranking second behind only LSU, and this has gotten the attention of a number of guys who would be great additions to the already stacked group.

Ohio State has seemingly picked up a ton of steam lately with four-star dual-threat QB Jacurri Brown. As Caleb discussed in his State Secrets on Friday, Brown appears to be near the top of the Buckeyes’ big board when it comes to the quarterback position. OSU officially reached out to the Georgia native on Wednesday, according to his post on Twitter, and he has since retweeted a number of edits of him donning the Scarlet and Gray.


Brown, the No. 6 dual-threat QB in the class and the No. 122 player overall, is still waiting on his official Ohio State offer. He has already amassed over 20 different scholarship offers, including the likes of Auburn, Florida, Miami and Tennessee. There is clearly a high level of mutual interest between Brown and the Buckeyes, and so I would be shocked if that OSU over doesn’t come within the next few days. Ryan Day has been the QB whisperer at Ohio State, and Brown could very well become his next prodigy.

The Buckeyes reached out to yet another talent from the South before the three-day weekend began, getting in touch with four-star defensive end Kenyatta Jackson on Thursday.


Jackson, out of Chaminade-Madonna Prep in Florida, is the No. 5 WDE in the 2022 class and a top-60 player overall. Ohio State offered the 6-foot-4.5, 215-pound edge rusher back at the end of May, and Jackson has since ran his total official offer list to almost 30 schools. With Larry Johnson listed as his primary recruiter, the Buckeyes are currently one of three teams the junior is “warm” on, according to 247Sports — those being Clemson, Oregon and OSU. Defensive end will be an important position in 2022, so I would keep a close eye on Jackson moving forward.

The staff continued making their phone calls and reaching out to their targets on Friday, this time getting in touch with four-star wide receiver C.J. Williams.


A California product, Williams is the No. 5 WR in the class, and the No. 35 player overall in 2022. The 6-foot-2, 193-pound pass-catcher is a hot commodity already, racking up a whopping 44 offers as he begins his junior year of high school. Ohio State offered Williams back in April, and he will certainly be one of the central focuses for Brian Hartline, who has made a habit of bringing top wide receiver talent to Columbus. 247Sports currently lists Alabama and OSU as the two programs he is warm on, and so look for Hartline and Day to continue building their relationship with the West Coast stud.

Finally, one of the latest 2022 prospects Ohio State has made official contact with is four-star athlete Dallan Hayden.


Hayden’s stock really began to rise about two weeks ago — about the time when Ohio State’s offer came in — and he now sits at around 25 official offers. Playing both sides of the ball for Christian Brothers High School in Memphis, Hayden is currently rated the No. 18 athlete in the country and the No. 300 player in the class overall, but expect those numbers to get a bump in the coming months.

A Tennessee legacy, as his father Aaron Hayden played for the Vols, his lone Crystal Ball prediction is in favor of the in-state program. However, don't count the Buckeyes out just yet, as they were the first team to contact him at midnight once the new NCAA window opened on Sept. 1. The 5-foot-11, 192-pound junior has already rushed for 690 yards and nine TDs this season through only 10 quarters of football thus far, and with the ability to also play defensive back, he could become a Cameron Martinez-type target for OSU.

Quick Hits

• Ohio State is one of the first five programs to offer 2023 offensive tackle Aidan Leigh — notably the younger brother of five-star 2021 OT Tristan Leigh, whom the Buckeyes are very much still trying to land. The younger Leigh has now received offers from Maryland, Ohio State, LSU, Florida and Oklahoma, in that order. The staff is likely hoping to land both of the Virginia natives, as while Aidan is not yet rated, Tristan is the No. 11 player in the country.

• Jesse Mirco has become the first official member of Ohio State’s 2021 class, as the Australian punter signed with the program on Saturday. Coming out of ProKick Australia, the same program that produced former Buckeye punter Cameron Johnston, Mirco is allowed to sign his LOI earlier than his 2021 peers, as he is already 23 years old. The rest of the group will have to wait until the early signing period begins on Dec. 16.

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Buckeye Bits: No re-vote from Big Ten presidents today, Dre’Mont Jones impressing at Broncos camp, more
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All of the latest Ohio State news from around the beat and beyond.

I opened last Friday’s Buckeye Bits with the sentence, “What a crazy week it has been,” and while for drastically different reasons this time around, things are still pretty nuts — no pun intended... ok maybe a little — around the Ohio State beat.

Football is being played in January. Football is being played in October. Football is never being played again — honestly at this point who really knows? These past few days have just been a whirlwind of misinformation on social media. Everyone has “sources,” and somehow nobody’s source can actually agree on absolutely anything. This is an accurate depiction of what it has been like to enter the Ohio State blogosphere this week:


One of the more interesting developments this week has been the somewhat surprising (not in all cases) overt bias of which many writers have been presenting the news. Somewhere, somehow, long-time trusted journalists — you know, the ones who get PAID to write about college football — reporting the facts of what is going on has become “anti-football” and instead we are supposed to all err on the side of those with anonymous sources who are just saying the things we want to hear.

Listen, we all want Ohio State football this fall. Literally everyone on the planet — outside of maybe Alabama/Clemson fans — wants the Buckeyes to take the field. But we have to stop with all the “I know a guy who knows a guy who knows something,” crap. We here at LGHL are praying for a Big Ten season this fall just like the rest of you, but we will not get caught up in reporting on baseless claims to get everyone’s hopes up. Hope is incredibly important in times like these, but false hope does way more damage than good, and until we have concrete evidence that Ohio State football is back, we cannot in good faith tell you that it is just because somebody’s uncle’s cousin who talked to a B1G AD at Wendy’s says so.

Hopefully that time will come sooner rather than later, but until then let’s get to today’s headlines.

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Where can Ohio State look for their 2022 quarterback target?
(Caleb Houser, LGHL)

The only constant throughout all of this nonsense has been Ohio State’s recruiting. Even amid a global pandemic and a cancelled football season, Ryan Day and his staff have been working their butts off on the trail, and the results are speaking for themselves.

Ohio State 2020 Virtual Season Preview: Week 1 vs. Buffalo Bulls
(George Eisner, LGHL)

There may or may not be a real football season for the Buckeyes this fall, but we are going to bring you one either way. George has done all the heavy lifting in putting together a virtual season via NCAA 14 and updated rosters, and the first game is streaming this Saturday at noon ET. Follow us on Twitch to check out the livestream, and let’s have some fun watching virtual Justin Fields and the gang as they take on Buffalo.

LGHL Group Chat: Islanders, Cardinals and Disney — oh my!
(LGHL Staff)

Surprisingly enough, the LGHL staff has other interests outside of just Ohio State sports — shocking, I know. Today, Tia put together the first ever LGHL Group Chat, our new series where we discuss what we’re up to in the absence of OSU football. While it could also feature some of our outside thoughts about things going on surrounding the Buckeyes, it can also include Netflix recommendations, what our favorite MLB/NHL/NFL teams are up to, and much more.

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Of the many big rumors floating around the Twitterverse on Thursday, one of the main ones centered around a supposed re-vote by the Big Ten presidents about reinstating the conference’s college football season, with a targeted return date of Oct. 10. Well, as of today that does not seem to be the case.

CBS’ Dennis Dodd reported yesterday that there is no immediate plan for any sort of meetings regarding a fall football season, and today we got even more news to the contrary. On Friday morning, Nebraska president Ted Carter confirmed that no meetings would be taking place that day.


However, that does not mean that steps aren’t being taken towards a return to football. Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez said on Friday that medical officials within the conference are working to gather facts and put together a proposal to present to the Big Ten presidents and chancellors. While that information could certainly lead to the “re-vote” that was allegedly going to happen this weekend, it is unclear when that proposal will be finished.


As I said previously, there has been far too much emotion put into peoples’ reporting in regards to this whole Big Ten fiasco, which has helped lead to a clouding of facts. However... this just seems like a really bad quote to me. While it is clear that a January season may be the most feasible outcome of all this, you cannot say that its, “the best you are going to do,” when the actual best case scenario is obviously playing this fall — you know, the thing that three of the Power 5 conferences are still doing.


Meanwhile, today the Big 12 announced their COVID-19 thresholds needed to postpone football games. According to the conference, teams will need to have at least 53 healthy guys on the roster, including all scholarship players and walk-ons, in order to play. In addition, certain position groups have their own thresholds. Those are offensive linemen (7), interior defensive linemen (4), and quarterback (1).


Former Ohio State defensive tackle Dre’Mont Jones is making a name for himself at Denver Broncos practice as he heads into year two of his NFL career. Playing in 14 games as a rookie and starting in one of them, Jones compiled 14 total tackles, 3.5 sacks and an interception. His teammate Jurrell Casey — a five-time Pro Bowl DE — says he sees a little of himself in Jones, some high praise from a player of his caliber.


Pain.

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Apparently its 2K Day, and while I haven’t personally been a huge fan of the basketball video game franchise over the past few years, this squad of Ohio State alumni is kinda fire. You get a talented backcourt with great handles and the ability to play at either guard spot from both Mike Conley and D’Angelo Russell, and a pair of high-scoring forwards in Keita Bates-Diop and Evan Turner. They just need to recruit themselves a center and they're ready to ball.


Ryan Day isn’t the only high-profile Ohio State coach rooting for a fall football season.


In regards to his own team, Holtmann may be getting some additional practice time in the near future.

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In case you may have missed it, former Ohio State tennis player J.J. Wolf has gone on a Cinderella run at the U.S. Open. Upsetting Roberto Carballes Baena on Thursday, he has advanced into the third round in his first Grand Slam event. Wolf and his excellent flow will next take the court on Saturday, where he will face-off against No. 5 Daniil Medvedev.


If we can’t have the Chris Collinsworth slide, then what's even the point of all this!?


And finally, its time for our daily edition of “which large college program is suffering from a COVID outbreak today,” featuring special guest Texas Christian University.


Have a great (and safe) Labor Day Weekend, everybody!

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Committed to Oregon

Signed to NE practice squad

Kumerow’s son Jake (cousin of the Bosa boys) signed to the Bills practice squad.

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ORD_Buckeye said:

It's all cleared out now. I'm just waiting to get to the doctor and have some blood work done. Until, that's all done and I'm on the allopurinol, my bar is a no-fly zone.

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Will raise a glass with you upon your triumphant return. Be well.

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Bucklion said:

It is, although upstate NY was a much more likely habitat. They are aggressive, but they generally stay on the web and defend it. Recluses are a bitch because they get in places like closets and you don’t know they’re there. Imagine my adrenaline when I was picking up my laundry and one popped out...I grabbed a snow boot and started beating the shit out of it

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Well, at least a recluse deserved the beatdown, unlike this poor, harmless bastard.

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AuTX Buckeye said:

thats really really odd, but Ghost of Al Davis and all, to draft a guy in the 3rd and trade him before he’s even played a down for a 4th rounder... dont really understand it ...

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Well it makes sense when you consider the Raiders overall lack of WR talent.

Wait.

released by Chicago

Speaking of zoos...

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buckeydoptimist said:

Nice roster breakdown. I know it is "mostly" quibble-ing but I'd make the following changes:
Bowen Hardman - we need to be perfect on the names where possible.
Walker is probably 6-0 at best.
Jallow is a F, as he's played more 4 here than 2 - he and JA are both 3's predominantly so both should be the same.
Liddell is 6-6, love him but he is nowhere near 6-8.
Diallo measured out at 6-10 last year.
I'd make both Young and Key C/F, as both will play mostly C in 20-21.

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suggested changes made… Thanks

LovelandBuckeye said:

Scooby Dooby Doo!!!

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Ruh Roh Roner....