2024 Season: Are You Ready For Some Football?

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2024 Season Preview: Five Bold Predictions for the Ohio State Football Season

The 11W Season Preview rolls on with my annual five bold predictions for the 2024 Ohio State football campaign.

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2024 Season Preview: Five Bold Predictions for the Ohio State Football Season​

Hola amigos, I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya but I'm back for another slate of Buckeye football, starting off with my annual bold predictions for the upcoming season.

While I've been absent from 11W in digital print since the conclusion of spring practice, I've been rolling with Jason, along with Ramzy and Jones, on the Eleven Warriors (YouTube) Show, thus paying close attention to the men of the scarlet and gray as Ryan Day's squad preps for a natty or bust campaign.

Of course that probably won't help with the accuracy of my annual bold predictions column but hey, go big or go home. Nobody wants to beat their chest next January after proclaiming in August that "Caleb Downs will be good."

That said, let's get to it. Here are my five bold predictions for the 2024 Ohio State football season.

OHIO STATE'S DEFENSE RANKS TOP-10 NATIONALLY IN TACKLES FOR LOSS PER GAME​

OHIO STATE'S DEFENSE RANKS IN THE TOP-10 NATIONALLY IN TOTAL INTERCEPTIONS​

EMEKA EGBUKA GOES OVER 1,000 FOR THE SEASON, SETS ALL-TIME SCHOOL RECEIVING YARDS RECORD​

JAMES PEOPLES* AND JAYLEN MCCLAIN EMERGE AS TOP OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE TRUE FRESHMEN (*FRESHMAN NOT NAMED JEREMIAH SMITH)​

OHIO STATE BEATS MICHIGAN BY AT LEAST 14 POINTS EN ROUTE TO THE NATIONAL TITLE​

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Three bold predictions for the Ohio State football season

With the Ohio State football team about to start their season next weekend, we give you some bold predictions for how the season plays out.

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Three bold predictions for the Ohio State football season​

With the Ohio State football team about to start their season next weekend, we give you some bold predictions for how the season plays out.

The Ohio State football team will finally be playing football in under a week. It has been a long offseason full of change and motivation. With how badly last season finished, the Buckeyes are looking to win the Big Ten and win a national championship this year.

Ohio State starts the season ranked second in both polls. Only Georgia is ranked higher than them to start the year. They quite possibly have the best defense in the country. It's going to be hard for opposing teams to move the ball on them all year.

Offensively, the team should be better now that they have Will Howard leading the program at quarterback. He should be a slight upgrade over Kyle McCord. The Buckeyes also still have the best group of receivers in the country. Still, we aren't sure how the offensive line is going to perform.

With the season about to start, it's time to start giving some bold predictions for the season. It's always fun to see if these end up panning out or if they are completely wrong. This year, the predictions get more fun because this team is under an enormous amount of pressure.

The first prediction has to do with the defense.

1. Ohio State's defense will force 20+ turnovers this season​

2. The Ohio State football team will go undefeated and win the Big Ten​

3. The Ohio State football team wins all of their CFP games by at least 14 points en route to a national championship​

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2024 Season Preview: Creating Over/Unders and Predicting Results for Ohio State's Team Totals

We set over/under props for some of Ohio State's team totals and predict whether the Buckeyes will reach those numbers during the 2024 regular season.

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2024 Season Preview: Creating Over/Unders and Predicting Results for Ohio State's Team Total​

How much will the Buckeyes improve statistically from 2023 to this season?

Ohio State has plenty of playmakers on both sides of the ball, with a number of its units ranking among the best in the country entering the 2024 season. The defense could be the best in the country, the offense could be Ryan Day's first run-first offense since taking over for Urban Meyer in 2019, and the national award watch list candidates take more than two hands to count. Altogether, the Buckeyes are stacked in almost all areas of the field on both sides of the ball, hence the reason OSU is considered a national championship frontrunner entering the 2024 season.

With that, we came up with over/unders for plenty of different team totals both on offense and defense that we believe could realistically go either way – and predict whether the Buckeyes will hit the respective overs in each category.

(Note: Given the expanded playoff and the fact that OSU's season could be between 13 and 17 games this season, these numbers are just for the 12 regular-season games).
Ohio State's Regular Season Team Props

Prop	Over/Under	Prediction
Points Per Game	41.5	Over
Rushing Touchdowns	38.5	Over
Passing Touchdowns	33.5	Under
Passing Yards Per Game	294.5	Under
Rushing Yards Per Game	266.5	Over
Yards Per Carry	5.59	Over
Third-Down Conversion Rate	50%	Over
Red-Zone Touchdown Rate	70%	Over
Points Allowed Per Game	11	Under
Sacks	39.5	Under
Tackles For Loss	98.5	Under
Opponent Third-Down Conversion Rate	27%	Under
Interceptions	14	Under

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