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Zach Rice (OL North Carolina, transfer to ???)

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Transfer Portal: NCAA Athlete Transfer News, Rankings & NIL Valuations

On3's NCAA Transfer Portal offers up-to-date news and rankings on college football and basketball transfers. Dive into detailed NIL valuations and stay informed on student-athlete transfer intentions.
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Rice arrived at North Carolina with much fan fare in the class of 2022, but plans to leave Wednesday after playing in six games this season between offense and special teams.

The 6-foot-5, 305-pounder played 12 games in 2023, mostly on special teams, and played in a pair of games in 2022. During that time period he was charged with speeding and underage drinking and driving.

Rivals.com had Rice ranked No. 24 overall, No. 1 in Virginia and No. 2 at tackle in the class of 2022 coming out of Lynchburg (Va.) Liberty Christian Academy. He played in the Under Armour All-American Bowl and was invited to the Polynesian Bowl. Rice didn’t allow a sack in his final two years and had 219 pancake block en route to being a two-time all-state selection.

Rice picked North Carolina over Alabama, Clemson, Florida, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Virginia and Virginia Tech.
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2024 tOSU Offense Discussion

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Ranking all 19 Ohio State touchdowns in the 2024-25 College Football Playoff (Part 2)

The offseason is dark and full of terrors, so let’s continue our look back at 19 enjoyable touchdowns in three easy-to-read columns.
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Ranking all 19 Ohio State touchdowns in the 2024-25 College Football Playoff (Part 2)​

The offseason is dark and full of terrors, so let’s continue our look back at 19 enjoyable touchdowns in three easy-to-read columns.

10. Will Howard to Jeremiah Smith from 43 yards vs. Oregon​

9. TreVeyon Henderson’s 66-yard run vs. Oregon​

8. Henderson’s 24-yard run vs. Tennessee​

7. Howard to Judkins from six yards vs. Notre Dame​

6. Howard to Smith from 37 yards vs. Tennessee​

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Ranking all 19 Ohio State touchdowns in the 2024-25 College Football Playoff (Part 3)

The offseason is dark and full of terrors, so let’s finish our look back at 19 enjoyable touchdowns in three easy-to-read columns.
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Ranking all 19 Ohio State touchdowns in the 2024-25 College Football Playoff (Part 3)​

5. Will Howard to Jeremiah Smith from 45 yards vs. Oregon​

4. Howard to Emeka Egbuka from 42 yards vs. Oregon​

3. Howard to Smith from 8 yards vs. Notre Dame​

2. Howard to TreVeyon Henderson from 75 yards vs. Texas​

1. Jack Sawyer’s 83-yard fumble recovery vs. Texas​

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Land-Grant Holy Land

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Land-Grant Holy Land question:​

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You’re Nuts: Which Ohio State football record is next to be broken?

Your (almost) daily dose of good-natured, Ohio State banter.
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Which Ohio State football record is next to be broken?​

Brett’s answer: Max Klare will break the single-season tight end receptions record​

Currently, the Ohio State single-season record for receptions by a tight end is the 55 catches Billy Anders made all the way back in 1966. After years of tight ends not being featured all that much in Ohio State’s passing attack, lately there has been an uptick in targets for the tight ends. Cade Stover hauled in 41 passes in 2023, while last season, Gee Scott Jr. made some big catches during the Buckeye playoff run.

The newest tight end on the Ohio State roster is Max Klare, who transferred into the program from Purdue following the conclusion of the 2024 regular season of the Boilermakers. On a Purdue team that was dreadful last season, Klare was one of the few bright spots, catching 51 passes. It’ll be interesting to see how Klare plays when surrounded by a functioning offense. Opponents of the Boilermakers last year didn’t have much to prepare for aside from slowing down Klare, and he still was able to record more than 50 receptions.
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Matt’s answer: Jeremiah Smith will break the single-season receptions record​

Brett said it right there in his response, “Obviously, the top target for Ohio State in the passing game is going to be Jeremiah Smith.”

Brett knows it, I know it, you know, every defensive coach and player in the country knows it, every NFL scout knows it, and yet none of that makes one single, solitary bit of difference. As his cousin, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith said, Jeremiah has the ability to be the best wide receiver of all time; not best Ohio State receiver of all time, not best college receiver of all time, but actual, legitimate GOAT wide receiver.

While J.J. will clearly get massive levels of attention from opposing defenses this fall, with Carnell Tate, Brandon Inniss, and the rest of Brian Hartline’s room, defensive coordinators will have to pick their poison. So, I fully anticipate Jeremiah getting his fair share of catches.

Last season, he hauled in 76, which is 19 behind Jaxon Smith-Njigba record-setting 95 from 2021. But what’s funny about Smith’s 2024 total is that he wasn’t even No. 1 on the team last year; that was Emeka Egbuka with 81.
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Just sayin': Any other Ohio State football records that you think might be broken in 2025?
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2030 FIFA World Cup

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South America proposes 64-team 2030 World Cup

The president of South American soccer's ruling body CONMEBOL made an official proposal on Thursday to expand the men's 2030 World Cup from 32 teams to 64.
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2030 World Cup: CONMEBOL proposes expanded 64-team tournament​

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Alejandro Domínguez, the president of South American soccer's ruling body CONMEBOL, made an official proposal on Thursday to expand the men's 2030 World Cup from 32 teams to 64.

FIFA is aware of the proposal that was first introduced in March by a delegate from Uruguay during an online meeting of the ruling council of world soccer's governing body.

"We are convinced that the centennial celebration will be unique because 100 years are celebrated only once," Domínguez said during his opening speech at CONMEBOL's 80th Ordinary Congress.

The 2030 World Cup is already set to be the most sprawling edition with six host nations spread across three continents.

Uruguay was the original World Cup host in 1930 and is scheduled to stage one game. Paraguay, Argentina, Spain, Portugal and Morocco are also co-hosts.
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If FIFA approves the move, it would create a tournament of 128 matches, double the number of the 64-game format that was played from 1998 through 2022.

However, UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin has called a 64-team World Cup "a bad idea."

Critics of the 64-team proposal have argued it will weaken the quality of play and devalue the qualifying program in most continents.
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A new way to crown the National Champion

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CleveBucks said:
What if, instead of crowning a national champion every year, we determine the current champion of college football by a title that is passed on from team to team. When you beat the current title holder, you become the title holder.

The first champion was the winner of the first game ever, Rutgers over Princeton, 6-4.

11/06/1869 Rutgers
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11/24/2017 Pittsburgh

Edit: Updated 11/30/2017
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Assuming this is accurate, I'll take it from here:

9/8/2018 Penn State
9/29/2018 Ohio State
10/20/2018 Purdue
10/27/2018 Sparty
11/10/2018 Ohio State
12/28/2019 Clemson
1/13/2020 LSU
9/26/2020 Mississippi State
10/3/2020 Arkansas
10/10/2020 Auburn
10/17/2020 South Carolina
10/24/2020 LSU
10/31/2020 Auburn
11/28/2020 Alabama
10/9/2021 Texas A&M
11/13/2021 Ole Miss
1/1/2022 Baylor
9/10/2022 BYU
9/17/2022 Oregon
11/12/2022 Washington
1/8/2024 Cheaters
9/7/2024 Texas
10/19/2024 Georgia
11/9/2024 Ole Miss
11/23/2024 Florida

And it appears Florida hasn't lost the title, yet.
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2024-2025 College Basketball General Discussion

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IU was probably the most disappointing team in the B1G, considering the rumors they paid out over $10 million for that team last year, going over the top to get everyone they wanted in the transfer portal. Paying all that money, getting the cream of the crop in the portal, being expected to be a contender in the B1G and still missing the big dance is a disaster. That shouldn't overshadow the poor job Steve Pikiell did at Rutgers. If you look at the latest mock drafts, two of the top-3 players in some of them are Rutgers freshmen Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey. How bad of a coach are you if you have two of the top-3 talents in college basketball, a preseason top-25 type team, and you're 11th in the B1G? You have to say Steve Pikiell is inept at building a roster, to have two excellent players and a complete inability to mold a competent cast around them, and he's been at Rutgers since 2016, so he's had plenty of time to learn about the B1G and the level of players you need in order to win.
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BP Bracket 2025 (in honor of Jake)

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Jake

Hi Everybody, Probably the worst person to perform this task, so I'm just going to get into it. As you may or may not have noticed, and if you're around, you probably did. But, Jake hasn't posted in a while. Of course part of the fun a place like this (and being online in general) is there's...
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Sorry about Jake. I don't read all the forums here - I know, shame on me.
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Academic Honors for Buckeye football players

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Former Ohio State Football Captain Cody Simon, Two-Sport Star Makenna Webster Win Big Ten Medal of Honor

Former Ohio State football captain Cody Simon and two-sport star Makenna Webster are OSU’s Big Ten Medal of Honor recipients for the 2024-25 academic year.
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A program-record 95 Ohio State football players were named Ohio State Scholar-Athletes for having a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or better. 805 total athletes across the Ohio State athletic department earned Scholar-Athlete honors for the 2024-25 academic year.

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Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork believes the Buckeyes’ athletic and academic success go hand in hand.

“If you're doing one thing in your life at the highest level, you're going to do everything else at the highest level,” Bjork told Eleven Warriors. “No one's going to take a day off. No one's going to take a shortcut. So if you just look at our football team, look at our women's hockey team; women's hockey has led the department in cumulative team GPA, and we've been in six out of the last seven Frozen Fours, won two out of the last four national championships. Football had the highest GPA (in program history) last spring, last fall, they're on track this spring to have a really great GPA, and we just won the national championship. So again, correlation between excellence in one category – academic, social life, whatever – is going to bleed over into the athletic realm.”
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