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Former Duquesne Linebacker Ty Howard, An All-Conference Player in 2024, Transferring to Ohio State​

Ohio State has added an all-conference linebacker from the transfer portal.

Ty Howard, who earned first-team All-NEC honors at Duquesne this season, announced his signing with Ohio State on Sunday.

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Howard joins the Buckeyes after recording 52 tackles, seven tackles for loss, four sacks, three interceptions, four pass breakups and a fumble recovery for the Dukes in just nine games in 2024. He recorded takeaways in four straight games, including a 40-yard interception return for a touchdown against St. Francis.

The Howard File​

• Year: Redshirt Junior
• Size: 6-0/200
• Pos: LB
• Previous School: Duquesne (2022-24)
• Stats: 52 tackles, 7 TFL, 4 sacks, 3 INT, 4 PBU, 1 FR in 2024

Howard is the older brother of incoming freshman running back Bo Jackson. Both Howard and Jackson arrived at Ohio State to start their time as Buckeyes this weekend as midyear enrollees.

Ohio State has not formally announced Howard’s signing, but Villa Angela-St. Joseph coach Jeff Rotsky told Eleven Warriors that Howard is receiving a scholarship from Ohio State. Under the new roster rules that will go into effect in 2025, college football teams will be able to have up to 105 players on scholarship, though Ohio State is still expected to have some walk-ons on its roster.

Howard brings two years of eligibility to Ohio State after spending three seasons at Duquesne.
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Ty Howard

• Position Linebacker
• Height 6-0
• Weight 200
• Class Junior
• Hometown Cleveland, OH
• High School Villa Angela-St. Joseph

AS A JUNIOR (2024)

• First Team All-Conference
• Led all NEC linebackers and ranked second overall with three interceptions ... Had four takeaways in four straight games (40yd pick six at Saint Francis, fumble recovery at Stonehill and interception in red zone vs. Mercyhurst and RMU) ... Earned NEC Defensive Player of the Week after the red zone INT and a team-high eight tackles versus RMU and was a three-time NEC Prime Performer ... Had five or more tackles in seven of nine games played ... Tied a career high with eight tackles three times ... Added four sacks, with one in each of the last three games, and 7.0 tackles for loss to go with 52 total tackles on the year.

AS A SOPHOMORE (2023)

• Played in four games with three starts
• Made 16 tackles and had two five-tackle games (vs. Edinboro and at Coastal Carolina)
• Charted five tackles, 1.5 TFLs, one sack, and a fumble recovery in season-opening win over Edinboro

AS A FRESHMAN (2022)

• Appeared in six games at linebacker
• Totaled 10 tackles, including 2.5 sacks, and had one quarterback hurry
• Recorded four tackles (two solo) vs. Merrimack
• Had two sacks at Youngstown State

BEFORE DUQUESNE

• All-Ohio Division IV first team linebacker by the Ohio High School Athletic Association
• NE Lake Division Defensive Player of the Year
• Finished his senior year with 115 tackles, including 23 tackles for loss, nine sacks and 10 quarterback pressures in nine games
• Also played running back and served as the team's long snapper
• Began his high school career at Euclid before transferring to Villa Angela-St. Joseph as a senior
• Also played baseball and track
• Honor Roll student

PERSONAL

• Son of Andria and Lamar Jackson
• Has four siblings
• Brother, Omari, plays football at Lake Erie College

geoegia vs norte dame

The first hoops game of 2025 features the Spartans coming to Columbus.

ohio st vs oregon

This is the BMW thread. Land of the free, home of the brave where negativity is the rule and The Lunatics rage.

For those not present over the last month, this thread is for those that want to Bitch/Moan/Whine (BMW) during the Cotton Bowl.
I recommend that we nominate @AuTX Buckeye and @Bestbuck36 as thread monitors.
Tagging @BB73 @LordJeffBuck if they feel this is worthy of a pinned thread.
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Let’s keep this train rolling!

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It's 2025 and Michigan still sucks!*

* And they cheat, too!

enjoy

Other programs tampering with UConn's players, Mora says​

UConn coach Jim Mora plans to "pursue all avenues" against teams that tamper with Huskies players, warning such teams to "think hard before you tamper with our players."

Mora posted on social media Monday, hours before star defensive lineman Pryce Yates re-entered the transfer portal. Yates, a three-year starter with 29.5 career tackles for loss, initially entered the portal Dec. 13 before withdrawing Dec. 21 and posting a social media graphic that indicated his intention to return for the 2025 season.

Yates, a redshirt junior from San Antonio, Texas, earned defensive MVP honors Saturday in the Wasabi Fenway Bowl, recording a sack and three tackles for loss in UConn's 27-14 win against North Carolina. Yates led UConn with 14 tackles for loss in 2023 and had 12.5 career sacks, including 3.5 this season despite being limited to seven games because of injury.

"A simple note to the schools and coaches that have blatantly broken @NCAAFootball rules by tampering with our players in the last 24 hours," Mora wrote Monday on X. "We do know who you are, we will pursue all avenues to hold you accountable. We are excited that we've built a program where coaches have to cheat to beat us and we will protect that program. Think hard before you tamper with our players."

Mora later wrote in response to a post that he doesn't know how to fix the tampering issue in college football, but that "we will expose any program and coach that violates" NCAA rules. He added: "I'm 100 percent against grown men cheating the rules and teaching players horrible life lessons."

Just sayin':

1) With NIL and the transfer portal, college football recruiting has radically changed. Many players' loyalty is now to the most NIL dollars and not to any specific team. I seriously doubt that the NCAA knows how to fix it either (other than just abolishing the tampering rules....).

and

Re: "I'm 100 percent against grown men cheating the rules and teaching players horrible life lessons."

2) I'm just thankful/glad that the NCAA (as incompetent as they are) actually caught the "cheats up north" for cheating the the last 3 years.

iowa vs missouri

The Longhorns visit the ‘Shoe for the first time since their Vince Young-led 2005 team won 25-22 on their way to the National Title. There is a chance this will be a matchup of the preseason #1 and #2 teams.

The Buckeyes evened the series by winning at DKR in 2006, with James Laurinaitis, Teddy Ginn, and Troy Smith leading the way.

Prior to the glorious CFP Cotton Bowl game last January, the only other matchup was a 21-24 Fiesta Bowl loss in Glendale after the 2008 season, when Terrelle Pryor was a freshman and Colt McCoy was a junior who had just won the Walter Camp POY Award.

The most recent Buckeye victory, sealed by Jack Sawyer‘s 83-yard play for the ages, once again tied the series at 2-2.

The Buckeyes host a first-time opponent, FCS Grambling State, who play in the SWAC. The Tigers were coached by the legendary Eddie Robinson, who led them to 408 victories from 1941 to 1997 (minus the WWII years of 1942/43).

Grambling has more NFL Hall of Famers than any of these schools:

Auburn, Clemson, Florida, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Texas A&M.

When defending MAC Champion Ohio comes to play in Ohio Stadium, are they not the home team?

The most recent visit was a 43-7 Buckeye win in 2010.

The Buckeyes get a BYE after playing only 3 games.

Following a Bye week, the Buckeyes head to Seattle to face the Huskies as a conference opponent for the first time.

The most recent meeting was the Rose Bowl following the 2018 season, a 28-23 Buckeye victory in Urban Meyer’s final game as head coach.

The last time tOSU went to Husky Stadium resulted in a 33-20 Buckeye victory in 2007.

The Golden Gophers visit the ‘Shoe trying to snap the Buckeyes streak of 13 straight in the series. That most recent Minny win was in Columbus during John Cooper’s final season in 2000.

Buckeyes head to the wind tunnel in Champaign, having won 9 straight in the series since the ‘Juice Williams’ game in 2007.

The last meeting in Champaign was back in 2015, since the 2020 contest was dropped due to Covid.

Buckeyes head to Camp Randall having won 10 straight in the series since the Badgers knocked off the #1 Buckeyes up there in 2010.

Of course, one of those 10 wins was by the score of 59-0.

Series.history (only since 1989)

Buckeyes get their second test of the season against undefeated BYE.

Pedsters come to the ‘Shoe with the Buckeyes coming off a bye week.

Buckeyes head to West Lafayette 1 day prior to the 23rd anniversary of Holy Buckeye.

Bruins come to Columbus for the first time as a conference opponent.

The overall series is 4-4-1. The Buckeyes are 2-1-1 in Columbus, winning the last such matchup 42-20 in 1999.

The most recent meeting was in Sept. 2001; in Jim Tressel’s second game as head coach the Buckeyes lost in Pasadena 13-6, with their only score coming on a blocked punt.

The only time these teams met in the postseason was the brutal 23-10 loss to the Dick Vermeil-coached, John Sciarra-QB‘ed team in the Rose Bowl after the 1975 season, during which the Buckeyes had defeated that Bruins team 41-20 in Columbus in early October. That loss was in Archie Griffin’s final game, and it cost the Buckeyes the National Title the last time Woody Hayes had a shot at winning another one.