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2024 Season Ticket Prices
- By ScriptOhio
- Tickets and Travel
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Ohio State’s 2024 Football Season Ticket Sales Highest in At Least 15 Years
Ohio State football's 2024 season ticket sales reached almost 57,000, the school's highest mark in at least 15 years.
OHIO STATE’S 2024 FOOTBALL SEASON TICKET SALES HIGHEST IN AT LEAST 15 YEARS
Ohio State football's season ticket sales reached their highest mark in at least 15 years ahead of 2024.
Not including student tickets, Ohio State sold 56,998 season tickets for the 2024 season, senior associate athletic director for ticketing and premium seating Brett Scarbrough told Joey Kaufman of The Columbus Dispatch on Thursday. The sales, which ended in June, surpassed the 56,484 non-student season ticket sales sold in 2022, a number that had been the Buckeyes' highest mark since at least 2009.
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K Mike Nugent (All American, Lou Groza Winner, National Champion)
- By Bestbuck36
- Buckeye Alumni
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Automatic 3 points and a touch back as soon as he came in the field!Login to view embedded mediaBuckeye Heroes: Mike Nugent is undoubtedly the best kicker in Ohio State history
The 2004 Lou Groza Award winner holds most of the school’s kicking records.
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There are so many challenges college football coaches have to deal with on and off the field. One of those on the field challenges is finding a reliable place kicker.
Even if you think you have a kicker who is nearly automatic, it seems to never fail that they end up missing when the game is on the line. Just look at Noah Ruggles in the 2022 season, where he was 17-19 before missing a really tough 50-yard field goal with the Buckeyes trailing Georgia by a point late in the fourth quarter.
When it comes to the most reliable kicker in Ohio State history, there is no doubt who has earned that title. Aside from career and single season field goal percentage, which are both held by Ruggles, Mike Nugent holds pretty much every other Ohio State kicking record. Nugent came to Ohio State from Centerville, where he was a teammate of linebacker A.J. Hawk.
Heading into the 2001 season, not only was Jim Tressel trying to find his footing as he transitioned from Youngstown State to Ohio State, the Buckeyes were looking for a new kicker. Mike Nugent and Josh Huston battled it out for the starting position, with Nugent eventually winning the job.
The first year for Nugent wasn’t anything special statistically, as he was 7-14 in field goals and 23-25 on extra points. Luckily for Nugent, Tressel had some patience with the kicker since not only was Nugent a freshman, the Buckeyes were just 7-5 in Tressel’s first season in Columbus.
The 2002 season is where Nugent started to break out and assert himself as one of the top kickers in the country. Not only did Nugent hit 25 of his 28 field goal attempts, he hit all but one of his 46 extra point attempts. Nugent finished the season with 120 total points on an Ohio State team that went on to upset Miami in the BCS National Championship Game.
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Just sayin': N-U-U-U-U-U-G-G-G-E-E-E
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Tour de France (official thread)
- By Thump
- Other OSU and Professional Sports
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Pogacar wins in mountains, builds overall TdF gap
Two-time champion Tadej Pogacar surged ahead on the final climb to win the mountainous 14th stage of the Tour de France and extend his overall lead to nearly two minutes.
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RB T.C. Caffey (Official Thread)
- By RB07OSU
- Buckeye Football
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Definitely a bummer for TC, but luckily it looks like both People and SWD are ready to go. I was thoroughly impressed by both in the spring game.Next Man Up?
Sources: Ohio State running back TC Caffey likely lost for season due to knee injury
Ohio State has arguably the best 1-2 punch at running back in college football in TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins. However, the Buckeyes are somewhat short at depth at the position, and that situation just got worse with the news about TC Caffey.247sports.com
The 5-foot-10, 215-pound Caffey had a strong spring and was expected to battle true freshmen James Peoples and Sam Williams-Dixon for playing time behind Henderson and Judkins.
Without Caffey, it will be interesting to see what OSU does for depth at tailback. Is safety Caleb Downs a legit option (presumably in a small role)? Head coach Ryan Day said that he absolutely is.
Ohio State also has preferred walk-on RB Rashid Sesay from West Muskingum who was the runner-up for Ohio's Mr. Football Award in 2023.
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The Heisman Hype
- By ScriptOhio
- College Football
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Ducks' Gabriel is Heisman fave in rare July shift
Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel moved past Georgia quarterback Carson Beck and Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers at ESPN BET and is now the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy at +750 odds.
Dillon Gabriel passes Beck, Ewers as Heisman favorite
Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel is now the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy with +750 odds at ESPN BET after moving past Georgia quarterback Carson Beck and Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers in an atypical July change for college football's highest honor.
Top Heisman Trophy Odds
| PLAYER, SCHOOL | ODDS |
|---|---|
| Dillon Gabriel, Oregon | +750 |
| Carson Beck, Georgia | +800 |
| Quinn Ewers, Texas | +900 |
| Jaxson Dart, Ole Miss | +1500 |
| Will Howard, Ohio State | +1600 |
| Nico Iamaleava, Tennessee | +1600 |
| Jalen Milroe, Alabama | +1600 |
| Garrett Nussmeier, LSU | +2200 |
| Cameron Ward, Miami | +2200 |
| Conner Weigman, Texas A&M | +2200 |
Beck and Ewers, who had been the favorites since February, are +800 and +900, respectively.
Gabriel began July with 10-1 odds at ESPN BET. He had been as long as 14-1 at other sportsbooks before an uptick of action showed up on the Ducks quarterback over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
The SuperBook in Las Vegas started receiving bets on Gabriel on Sunday, causing his odds to tighten from 14-1 to 9-1.
"I think there were some maybe influential people that hopped on it and said they liked it on some public spaces," Chase Michaelson, oddsmaker for the SuperBook, told ESPN. "It's people we respect that like Gabriel, and I think there are lots of reasons to like him."
Gabriel has put up gaudy numbers at Oklahoma and UCF. He passed for 3,660 yards with 30 touchdowns and six interceptions with the Sooners last season before transferring to Oregon, where he inherits what's expected to be an explosive Ducks offense.
More money has been bet on Gabriel to win the Heisman than any other player at ESPN BET. At BetMGM sportsbooks, the senior has attracted more than twice as much money as any other player offered in the Heisman odds since July 4.
Gabriel, at +750, would have the longest odds of any Heisman favorite entering the season in the past 15 years, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.
ESPN's Mount Rushmore of sports.
- By ScriptOhio
- Open Discussion (Work-safe)
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Mount Rushmore of Sports
OHIO STATE
Jesse Owens
Archie Griffin
Jack Nicklaus
Jerry Lucas
Question: What does the backside of Mt. Rushmore actually look like?
OHIO STATE
Jesse Owens
Archie Griffin
Jack Nicklaus
Jerry Lucas
Question: What does the backside of Mt. Rushmore actually look like?
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Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest (Official Thread)
- By ScriptOhio
- Other OSU and Professional Sports
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Nick Wehry, husband of women’s Nathan’s hot dog contest winner Miki Sudo, accused of cheating to join ‘elite’ class of competitive eaters
The competitive eating world has been rocked by hard-to-swallow claims that a contender in this year’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest cheated to beef up his score.
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Nick Wehry, husband of women’s Nathan’s hot dog contest winner Miki Sudo, accused of cheating to join ‘elite’ class of competitive eaters
This is the wurst.
The competitive eating world has been rocked by hard-to-swallow claims that a contender in this year’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest cheated to beef up his score.
Nick Wehry — husband of women’s division champion Miki Sudo — is being accused of using sleight of hand trickery during the July Fourth contest in order to inflate his tally of eaten hot dogs and falsely place himself among the sport’s elite contenders, according to two sources closely involved in the competition.
Nick Wehry is accused of padding his hot-dog total from July 4’s Nathan’s Hotdog Eating Contest.Andrew Schwartz / SplashNews.com
“100% he cheated,” one source told The Post Tuesday.
On the day of the competition, Wehry’s score was a respectable 46.75 hot dogs when they called it out at Coney Island, good enough for a fourth-place finish, according to footage and reports, including by The Post and ESPN.
But that figure later jumped to 51.75 on the official Major League Eating (MLE) results website, allegedly giving him credit for five full wieners more than he was actually served during the competition, the sources said.
Eaters’ scores are tabulated based on the number of empty plates stacked in front of their spot after the allotted time has concluded.
Any “debris” left uneaten on the top plate on the stack — bits of bun or stray chunks of beef — is subject to judges’ determination about whether it’s deducted from their total.
Every plate on the competition table starts out loaded with five hot dogs, so each plate left behind counts for five dogs eaten as the judges determine the participants’ scores.
Wehry has been accused of “stealing plates” from another competitor’s stack and putting them on his own place setting to raise his score above 50 — which is considered the threshold separating everyday competitors from the sport’s true top dogs.
Although the alleged score inflation didn’t improve Wehry’s standing, it did bump him above that magic 50 figure.
“There’s a number of people who have eaten 40 hot dogs in this competition before, there’s a lot fewer who have eaten more than 50, and even fewer who have eaten over 60,” another source said.
“For someone to have on the record that they ate more than 50, makes you part of a very small elite club of competitive eaters.”
Patrick Bertoletti, this year’s champ, wolfed down 58 hot dogs and buns in the 10-minute gorge-fest, defeating 13 competitors for the title and taking home a prize of $10,000 as mustard-belt holder.
Second- and third-place finishers Geoff Esper and James Webb put away 53 and 52, and took home prizes of $5,000 and $2,500, respectively. Wehry, in fourth place, would have gotten $1,500 – while the fifth place winner got $1,000.
Sudo herself hoovered 51 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes, setting a new world record for women during their competition before the mens’.
One source suggested that Wehry asked for a recount after the initial judge’s tallying took place, concerned his true total wouldn’t cut the mustard in the highly competitive field of contenders.
“I can only assume he demanded a recount after stealing the plate,” the source claimed.
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Ohio State Men's Lacrosse (2013 ECAC Champions)
- By ScriptOhio
- Other OSU and Professional Sports
- 974 Replies
Skull Session: Ohio State Lands Five-Star Linebacker Riley Pettijohn, Jake Diebler and His Wife Welcome Their Fourth Child and Musa Jallow Returns to Columbus
Ohio State lands five-star linebacker Riley Pettijohn, Jake Diebler and his wife welcome their fourth child and Musa Jallow returns to Columbus.
MY BOY’S WICKED SMAHT! “How do you like them apples?” Ohio State men’s lacrosse alumnus Trent DiCicco said to all Big Ten athletes (apart from Michigan State’s Ashley Harlock) after winning the 2024 Wayne Duke Postgraduate Award.
(I can neither confirm nor deny if DiCicco said those words. However, I can confirm that Good Will Hunting is the greatest movie of all time).
Last week, DiCicco won the Wayne Duke Postgraduate Award and was awarded a $10,000 scholarship for his academic, athletic, extracurricular and leadership achievements as a member of Ohio State’s lacrosse program.
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"Trent has been a terrific representation of what it means to be a student-athlete at Ohio State," Kaitlin Davis, assistant director of athletic academic services, said in a statement. "He kept dedicated to his academic goals while being a leader for his teammates. He is a special person and I could not think of a better Buckeye to win this award for our program and this university."
DiCicco was a four-year letterwinner and captain of the Ohio State men's lacrosse team. In 47 appearances for the Buckeyes, the Guelph, Ontario, native collected 17 points on 10 goals and seven assists, 88 ground balls, and 10 forced turnovers. DiCicco was also a member of Team Canada’s youth program during his college career and won a silver medal at the U21 World Championships in Limerick, Ireland in 2022.
A two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, DiCicco majored in mechanical engineering with a minor in robotics and autonomous systems, posting a 3.94 overall grade-point average. DiCicco also participated in research projects focusing on human movement biomechanics applied to law enforcement and athletes and a multidisciplinary project related to optimizing human performance, injury prevention and rapid rehabilitation.
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