2025 Spring Practices, Spring Game, and other Tidbits

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Ohio State Football to Hold Spring Showcase at Ohio Stadium on April 12

Ohio State will hold a spring showcase at Ohio Stadium on April 12, the usual weekend of its spring game. Details for the event are still to be determined.

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Ohio State Football to Hold Spring Showcase at Ohio Stadium on April 12​

The Ohio State football team will hold an event at Ohio Stadium on its typical spring game date, but it’s still to be determined whether it will be an actual spring game.

Even though the Buckeyes are starting spring practice two weeks later than usual, Ohio State will conclude spring practice on April 12, sticking with its typical schedule of concluding spring practice on the second Saturday in April.

That said, Ohio State is calling its final practice of the spring a “spring showcase” this year, opening up the possibility that Ohio State could deviate from holding a traditional spring game. Per Monday’s announcement of Ohio State’s spring practice schedule, details of the spring showcase including ticket information are still to be determined.



Ohio State will hold a Buckeye Gameday Fan Fest before the spring showcase in Remembrance Park (located on the corner of Woody Hayes and Archie Griffin Drives), featuring live entertainment, food and beverage and fan activations and giveaways, from 9 a.m. to noon.

Ohio State will conduct its entire spring practice schedule in four weeks this spring, beginning on March 17 when Ohio State students return from spring break. The Buckeyes will practice three times during the first week of practice, then practice four times in each of the following three weeks, culminating with the spring showcase for their 15th and final practice.

Ohio State is starting its spring practice schedule two weeks later than usual due to the length of its 2024 season, which culminated on January 20 with the Buckeyes winning the national championship in their 16th game of the season.

Spring Practice Starts: Monday, March 17th
Gameday Fanfest and Spring Game: Saturday, April 12th

Just sayin': The fans will want to see how the QB1 competition (i.e. Justin Sayin) looks in actual game conditions and will be disappointed if there isn't an actual "traditional" spring game.

 

[Onebuckfan]

“Traditional” was quaint from 1940 - 2020 and I bought into all of it..enjoyed it, college football was it. Now it’s money, portals CFP. If they do away with the Band ..what is it? Triple A for NFL.

 

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Ohio State Football to Hold Spring Showcase at Ohio Stadium on April 12

Ohio State will hold a spring showcase at Ohio Stadium on April 12, the usual weekend of its spring game. Details for the event are still to be determined.

www.elevenwarriors.com

Ohio State Football to Hold Spring Showcase at Ohio Stadium on April 12​

The Ohio State football team will hold an event at Ohio Stadium on its typical spring game date, but it’s still to be determined whether it will be an actual spring game.

Even though the Buckeyes are starting spring practice two weeks later than usual, Ohio State will conclude spring practice on April 12, sticking with its typical schedule of concluding spring practice on the second Saturday in April.

That said, Ohio State is calling its final practice of the spring a “spring showcase” this year, opening up the possibility that Ohio State could deviate from holding a traditional spring game. Per Monday’s announcement of Ohio State’s spring practice schedule, details of the spring showcase including ticket information are still to be determined.



Ohio State will hold a Buckeye Gameday Fan Fest before the spring showcase in Remembrance Park (located on the corner of Woody Hayes and Archie Griffin Drives), featuring live entertainment, food and beverage and fan activations and giveaways, from 9 a.m. to noon.

Ohio State will conduct its entire spring practice schedule in four weeks this spring, beginning on March 17 when Ohio State students return from spring break. The Buckeyes will practice three times during the first week of practice, then practice four times in each of the following three weeks, culminating with the spring showcase for their 15th and final practice.

Ohio State is starting its spring practice schedule two weeks later than usual due to the length of its 2024 season, which culminated on January 20 with the Buckeyes winning the national championship in their 16th game of the season.

Spring Practice Starts: Monday, March 17th
Gameday Fanfest and Spring Game: Saturday, April 12th

Just sayin': The fans will want to see how the QB1 competition (i.e. Justin Sayin) looks in actual game conditions and will be disappointed if there isn't an actual "traditional" spring game.

Spring games honestly don’t really show much anyway. I remember watching McCord barely throwing the ball past 10 yards A few years ago. And fans next to me saying OSU would be lucky to win 5 games with him. And I really don’t remember Will Howard at all last years spring game. The 2 hand touch dynamic just didn’t show much to take away from other than being happy to see the team live. I think the athletic department say that and said why risk it with injury after an NC. Not sure what a showcase will be, but I for one will attend just to see the players up close, and be able to get some incredible seats in the Shoe that I in no way could afford for a regular season game(me and a buddy spent I think $30/ea for AA seats)

 

[Daria01]

“Traditional” was quaint from 1940 - 2020 and I bought into all of it..enjoyed it, college football was it. Now it’s money, portals CFP. If they do away with the Band ..what is it? Triple A for NFL.

Yeah, college football has definitely changed a lot. It used to be all about tradition, but now it’s more about the money and the business side of things. If they get rid of things like the Band, it’s just going to feel like another NFL minor league. It’s tough to watch it shift

 

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Ryan Day on Ohio State’s Spring Game: “I Don’t Think It’s Going to Look the Same As It’s Looked in the Past”

Ryan Day isn’t ready to say exactly what Ohio State’s spring showcase will consist of yet but says he doesn’t think it’s going to look the same as past spring games.

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Ryan Day on Ohio State’s Spring Game: “I Don’t Think It’s Going to Look the Same As It’s Looked in the Past”​

Ryan Day isn’t ready to say exactly what Ohio State’s spring showcase will consist of yet, but he expects it to look different than past spring games.

Asked by a member of the Ohio State Board of Trustees at Monday’s Athletics Committee meeting about the impending changes to the Buckeyes’ spring game, Day explained that he believes Ohio State must change the way it approaches spring practice this year after playing 16 games – the most it’s ever played in a season – on its way to winning a national championship this past season.

“I think we have to be smart about how we handle this,” Day said. “When you look at the NFL model and they’re playing the number of games that they play in the NFL, we just played 16 games, so to think that we can continue with the same spring game or spring practice model, I think is asking for trouble, because of the amount of games now.

“It isn’t just right now, but in a year or two, I think you’ll look back and say to yourself, ‘Boy, that’s a lot of football.’ You look at what the Kansas
City Chiefs just did and the run they went on (playing in three straight Super Bowls), that’s a lot of football over a few-year period. So we’re gonna look hard at that, but we’re also gonna have to reconsider exactly how we’re gonna handle the spring game. So we’re getting close, we’re not quite there yet, but I don’t think it’s going to look the same as it’s looked in the past.”
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“I think we have a great nucleus of guys coming back,” Day told the athletics committee. “There was a lot that went into this (2024) season – the hard work, the leadership – so I think there’s a group of guys who were able to witness what it’s supposed to look like. And we had our freshmen and newcomers with us those last two games, the Cotton Bowl and also the national championship, where they were able to watch how those guys operate in the locker room, what it looks like on the field, postgame, the preparation. So I feel good about it.”

 

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Texas, USC latest programs to nix spring games

Texas and USC have joined Nebraska in canceling their spring games.

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Texas, USC latest college football programs to cancel spring games​

In another sign of college football's transformation, Texas and USC have joined Nebraska in canceling their spring games.

Sarkisian said he hoped to have an NFL-style spring featuring OTAs -- or organized team activities, as the pros call them -- with scrimmages.

"The development that's needed for these guys to get ready for the fall is a little bit different than it used to be," Sarkisian said. "I just don't know if rolling the ball out and playing the game, when we only get 15 practices, is the best for us to maximize the opportunities that we get."

A USC source said there's not much upside to spring games with risk of injury and more important uses for financial resources.

Florida State canceled its spring game this year because of ongoing stadium renovations at Doak Campbell Stadium, but coach Mike Norvell said he believes the trend of no longer playing spring games will continue.

Just sayin': More teams cancelling their Spring Game.

 

[DaiMonMoore]

It needs to go away. Amused that people actually waste money to attend.

 

[Thump]

It needs to go away. Amused that people actually waste money to attend.

Worse than a Bengals preseason game.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Worse than a Bengals preseason game.

Easy now

 

[Onebuckfan]

It needs to go away. Amused that people actually waste money to attend.

Yep another tradition gone. Bands will be next.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Yep another tradition gone. Bands will be next.

As long as young women anywhere insert flutes into their vaginas I, for one, shall not let band die my friend. I assure you of that.

 

[RuGettinIt]

As long as young women anywhere insert flutes into their vaginas I, for one, shall not let band die my friend. I assure you of that.

What’s all this I hear about band camp?

 

[RB07OSU]

I love the spring game mostly to see the new players and get a glimpse at the new faces on the team, especially now with so many early enrollees that get their first experience in the Shoe and also new students or existing fans that don't have the financial means to go to a game in the season. I would be very sad to see it go altogether. We run plenty of live go scrimmages that risk injury, this one just happens to be in front of fans. Plus we have shifted to down by touch when the key guys are in, the QB is always protected, and guys like JJ and Downs probably won't even play in it.

Plus it is a recruiting tool to see so many fans show up for a spring game and to get recruits in. In a related note, most other schools don't show up to support it, so the USC's and FSU's of the world are not like us in that respect. We also have more than enough resources at OSU to be in the red for the spring game. Vigorously against ever canceling the spring game, just run it like we did this year in a safe manner.

 

[Bestbuck36]

Any chance I can get to be in the Shoe, decent weather, affordable ticket prices, delicious nachos and Ohio State football, is a glorious day. Anyone that has a problem with that because "is not real football", or, "is stupid", needs to just shut the fuck up and probably never be in my general vicinity breathing Ohio air!