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2025 Season: Are You Ready For Some Football?

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osuvictory1 said:
Who we losing?

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DT, 2 LB, S, CB, Nickel, DE so there's 7 just on defense

Innis and 2-3 TEs maybe (not sure who counts as a starter)

TT is a red shirt junior. Who knows if that injury is a career ender for a guy that far along and no NFL future.

Donaldson technically

I could see 9 starters (depending on how you count them) without any shocking surprises.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
DT, 2 LB, S, CB, Nickel, DE so there's 7 just on defense

Innis and 2-3 TEs maybe (not sure who counts as a starter)

TT is a red shirt junior. Who knows if that injury is a career ender for a guy that far along and no NFL future.

Donaldson technically

I could see 9 starters (depending on how you count them) without any shocking surprises.
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So are we talking losing 15 to the portal or combined portal/draft attrition.

Man.... Innis will have his year next year. He needs to stay.

They need to go out shopping. Hope our portal evaluation dude and Pantoni through the agent's are in a war room. Pantoni is gonna also earn his money to keep dudes from entering the portal.
 
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osuvictory1 said:
So are we talking losing 15 to the portal or combined portal/draft attrition.

Man.... Innis will have his year next year. He needs to stay.

They need to go out shopping. Hope our portal evaluation dude and Pantoni through the agent's are in a war room. Pantoni is gonna also earn his money to keep dudes from entering the portal.
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No idea. I don't keep up with all that like I used to.

Defense obviously has a major retooling job.
 
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That Was The Season That Was: Good analysis by 11W's Ramzy Nasrallah


We Regret the Error
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The most consistently terrible program in the history of college football just went 16-0.

This was the most impressive season and turnaround the sport has ever seen. Indiana claimed the Heisman, the conference title, the Rose Bowl trophy in gruesome fashion, the Peach Bowl trophy with similar violence - and the national championship beating a team teeming with expensive blue-chip talent on its home field.

Books will be written and movies scripted about the 2025 Hoosiers, who - to borrow Ryan Day’s philosophy - now get to have their stories told forever. Meanwhile, the 2025 Buckeyes just added another chapter to their Regrettably Lost Seasons tome.
If that sounds negative, consider the new national champions don't even have one of those big, sad books. Every single season of IU football has been garbage, the lamentable adulation which accompanies pathetically low expectations - or solid gold.

The way in which Curt Cignetti was able to pull this off will require thousands of words containing rich detail and numerous vantage points, since one person alone can't win a national title. It takes a coalition of the committed to do that.

But for this humble web site devoted to an annual contender which shed its Cinderella slipper decades ago, this is a very abrupt learning experience. IU's title was not won in the traditional manner. This was a brand-new strategy for a quickly evolving and chaotic era. And it worked, quite literally, perfectly.

The Buckeyes got a close look at what winning meaningful games in 2025 looks like, and based on this experience - here are ten strategies we should expect Day's program to prioritize as it works to stop writing sad chapters in a big, privileged book no one wants to read.

No.1: Win in the Margins​

No.2: Survive and Advance in the Trenches​

No.3 Deploy a Dangerous Quarterback​

No.4 Deploy a Predictable Kicker​

No.5 Follow the Jim Tressel Sacrament for Punting​

No.6 Act Like a Wealthy Program and Quit Multitasking​

No.7 Elevate Portal Management and Free Agent Evaluations​

No. 8 Prepare for Uninvited Chaos​

No. 9 Optimize Deployment to Win the Games Not Yet Played​

No. 10 Be Ready When Luck Happens​

 
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“A LOCKER ROOM OF GROWN-ASS MEN.” During a recent episode of The Triple Option podcast, Urban Meyer said the quiet part out loud: Ryan Day and Ohio State have shifted at least part of their roster-building philosophy away from high school recruiting and toward adding veteran players from the transfer portal.

“I think the template has been set now, with the Big Ten winning three years in a row with the most mature, veteran teams,” Meyer said. “Someone said the average age of college teams was about the same age as NFL teams. … The average experience was almost four years — someone threw that at me yesterday as well. The Wolverines did it. The Buckeyes did it.

“I actually talked to Coach Day about that yesterday. We talked about it before the (national title) game, and he mentioned that. Everyone’s talking about it. How do we get a locker room of grown-ass men that have been through it? Coaching that 21-year-old is a much different cry from coaching that 18-year-old. You’ve got a grown-ass man with experience that understands the game.”
 
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Good analysis by Ramzy Nasralla for 11W of what went wrong in 2025:


Four Reasons Why​

The NFL Combine was a healthy dose of confirmation bias.

Everything that transpired in Indy over the weekend simply reinforced what you've either heard, read or said yourself for weeks. How did the Buckeyes lose back-to-back games to end its season with these guys on the team?

This is the type of angst that can consume you forever, like all of those other seasons piled up in Ohio State's reviled Squandered Season cabinet that leak out every offseason. So let's bury 2025. A righteous cleansing, because lot of you (not you, reader) are way into your feelings too often.

We'll start with the hardest lesson in 136 years of Ohio State football, which is that even if the lessons of 2025 are learned and retained, college football is now changing at a velocity which may render them artifacts rather than principles in short order. Planning to build something meaningful in two or three seasons is a wasted effort. Win now is every program's mandate.

The Buckeyes are not going to solve how last season collapsed in winter so that 2026 turns out differently, because it's a whole new team, which will have a seasoned OC calling plays and an actual proven coordinator for the third unit, which has been an anchor on the program since the pandemic. Those NFL Combine highlight machines will be wearing different helmets.

The head coach, several faces and all of the expectations remain the same. It's time to cleanse ourselves of 2025 - here are the four reasons the Buckeyes didn't go back-to-back as CFP champions:
  • Special Teams [Field Goals, punting, a just-get-off-the-field mentality creating a huge deficit of hidden yards and costly penalties - a mediocre dynamic now as entrenched in the program as Wide Receiver U]
    • Remedy: Robbie Discher hired. First qualified hire for that role since Matt Barnes in 2019.
  • Offensive Philosophy & Execution [failing to accommodate for an inexperienced QB against talent-equated opponents, chronic Red Zone inefficiencies not involving the aforementioned Field Goal kicker, sticking with long-developing routes while OL was in shambles, dialing up a critical 3rd down conversion for TE4 while benching WRs, sticking with a silent count vs. Miami, lack of game control agility vis a vis When It's Time to Turn Up the Gas, We Will]
    • Remedy: Arthur Smith hired, Cortez Hankton hired.
  • Talent Evaluation [critical misses, notably Ethan Onianwa as the program's biggest whiff in the portal era, inflated impression of TE room's capabilities, RB4 was RB1 to start the season, a walk-on was WR4 at WRU to end the season]
    • Remedy: A work in progress, always.
  • Personnel Decisions[allowing a first-time play-caller to run the offense, which had negative effects on his position group and the offense, his departure the week of the B1G championship, hiring an OL coach who is more specialized in other elements of the offense than OL coaching]
    • Remedy: Prepare for uninvited chaos.
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