The gray sleeves are back folks.
playoff threads #gobucks pic.twitter.com/nmhhOnueep
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) December 15, 2022
These threads are beautiful. Well, please, Ohio State — please, please, please… please — make these a part of the permanent uniforms for both the scarlet and gray jerseys. The school’s colors are scarlet and gray, so let’s act like that.
I conclude my short but necessary tirade.
Let’s have a Good Friday, shall we?
FIND A BRICK WALL. On Thursday I came across a trailer for the Ohio State vs. Georgia fight at the Peach Bowl created by Buckeye Productions and good heavens big Googly Moogly – whatever other expressions I can use to explain my amazement – he is phenomenal .
find a wall You have to go through it once the trailer ends.
The Peach Bowl is 15 days away. An official trailer will be released by the Ohio State Football Media Team on one of these days. However, until that trailer is released (and maybe even after), I will be watching the Buckeye Productions video on repeat until December 31st arrives.
New Year’s Eve can’t come soon enough.
JIMMY SMITH. As I said at the start of Thursday’s Skull session, Brian Hartline is a beast who consistently surpasses the already high expectations Buckeye Nation has for wide receiver recruitment, adding another five-star wideout on Wednesday.
However, what I didn’t say Thursday is that Hartline is also an incredible troll, something I learned from Skully a few hours after yesterday’s post.
A few minutes after Hartline abducted Jeremiah Smith of the Chaminade-Madonna Prep in Opa Locka, Fla., Ohio on Wednesday, a distraught commenter on a message board in Miami, FL, was furious that Hartline was coming to South Florida Smith wishes the prospect attended high school in the Hurricanes’ backyard in 2024.
The next morning, Hartline had a perfect response for the Miami commentator, but of course it wasn’t on the message boards. Hartline sent his message on Twitter in the most tweeting way possible: a subtweet.
— Brian Hartline (@brianhartline) December 15, 2022
Simply an incredible achievement by Hartline. First, he secures a five-star receiver from South Florida, heavily recruited by Miami and its offensive coordinator Josh Gattis — Michigan’s former OC who called Ohio State soft in 2021. Second, he won Twitter for the day with an incredible subtweet from a sad Hurricanes fan.
It’s been a great day to be the wide receiver coach at Ohio State University, and it might be even bigger to be a Buckeyes fan as they have a spate of top receiver commits after Columbus over the next two years will see coming:
SURNAME | YEAR | HT | WT | STARS | EVALUATION |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
JEREMIAH SMITH | 2024 | 6-3 | 185 | FIVE | 0.9982 |
BRANDON INNISS | 2023 | 6-0 | 190 | FIVE | 0.9859 |
NOAH ROGERS | 2023 | 6-2 | 195 | FOUR | 0.9799 |
CARNELL TATE | 2023 | 6-2 | 180 | FOUR | 0.9717 |
BRYSON RODGERS | 2023 | 6-0 | 175 | FOUR | 0.9011 |
That’s what I call an embarrassment of wealth.
It doesn’t get any better than that, folks.
HATE SEEING THIS. After Michigan’s 45-23 win over Ohio State in The Game this season, some Wolverines players ran across the Horseshoe lawn with a corn and blue flag flying in the wind. They even planted it on the scarlet block O at the 50 yard line.
This looked something like this:
flag planted. pic.twitter.com/vBHd0ICliQ
— Jordan Strack (@JordanStrack) November 26, 2022
And now the Michigan football program has added pictures of that moment at the Schembechler Hall practice facility in Ann Arbor. It looks a bit like this:
New works of art in the Schembechler Hall pic.twitter.com/ajcb4gl5yo
— Larry Lage (@LarryLage) December 15, 2022
Look, I know Michigan won the last two meetings in the rivalry, and I don’t have a lot of space to comment on the stuff the Wolverines do these days because of that fact, but it’s pretty funny to me, eh quick they put up a mural of their win at ohio stadium and their win last year at the big house.
It seems a program is doing just that after being dominated for two decades. But what do I know? I’m counting down to November 25, 2023 because I was dying to see the Buckeyes back at the top of The Game. I wouldn’t mind seeing The Rematch in the national championship either, but that’s just me.
ALL-AMERICAN MEN. Ohio State is America’s team. That’s a claim I think most readers of Eleven Warriors would agree with, or maybe not. I do not know. I also don’t think that claim would go down well outside of Buckeye Country.
However, I can safely say that Ohio State was named one of America’s best teams by their All-Americans this year. Here are all of the All-American awards the Buckeyes received after the regular season:
- CJ Stroud: Walter Camp Football Foundation, CBS Sports, AFCA (second team)
- Marvin Harrison Jr.: AP, Walter Camp Football Foundation, PFF, CBS Sports, The Athletic, Bleacher Report, FWAA, Sporting News, AFCA (first team)
- Emeka Egbuka: PFF (third team)
- Paris Johnson Jr.: Walter Camp Football Foundation, The Athletic, Bleacher Report, FWAA, AFCA (first team); CBS Sports, AP (second team); PFF (Honourable Mention)
- Dawand Jones: PFF and CBS Sports (first team); AP, Sporting News (second team)
- Luke Wypler: PFF (third team)
- Thomas Eichenberg: PFF, grandstand report (first team); Walter Camp Football Foundation, CBS Sports, FWAA, AP, Sporting News (second team)
- Ronnie Hickman: PFF, AP (second team)
As for the Associated Press All-American honors — and to be honest, those are the only All-American honors I care about, I don’t know why, and I won’t be answering questions at this point — the Buckeyes lead with five receivers: Harrison, Johnson, Jones, Eichenberg and Hickman.
@OhioStateFB leads with 5 AP All-Americans on their list!
Which team on this list is the most surprising? pic.twitter.com/YcIohzPsjd
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) December 15, 2022
If Ohio State is to get past Georgia and meet its goal of winning a national championship, these five Buckeyes and players like CJ Stroud, Miyan Williams, JT Tuimoloau and Zach Harrison, among many others, need to lead the games.
In fact, everyone needs to be at the top of their games. But I expect these Ohio State players to be on the front lines.
Let’s ride, Buckeye Nation. Bring on the bulldogs. Ohio vs the World.
SONG OF THE DAY. “She’s a Rainbow” by The Rolling Stones.
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