#Buckeyes

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Kamryn Babb did not have the Ohio State football career he wanted, but his personal impact may have surpassed anything he could have imagined. Babb endured four torn anterior cruciate ligaments - twice in each knee. Each time he inched closer to a breakthrough on the field, an injury knocked him back. When he caught a touchdown…

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The Iowa Hawkeyes and the Maryland Terrapins are set to square off in a Big Ten battle at 4:30 p.m. ET on Sunday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Iowa is 11-6 overall and 8-2 at home, while Maryland is 11-5 overall and 1-3 on the road. The Terrapins are coming off an impressive 80-73 victory over Ohio State last Sunday. The Hawkeyes, meanwhile, are 3-3 in…

Sometime after midnight, having just watched one of the worst football games I have ever seen with my own eyes, I took a gander at Georgia's schedule. Not the 2022 schedule. The Bulldogs passed that test. They finished a perfect 15-0 overall, winning a second national championship. They also finished a superb 11-4 against the spread. After losing…

It took a stunning late comeback and overtime, but Iowa picked up a third straight win on Thursday night. This afternoon, the Hawkeyes (11-6, 3-3 Big Ten) will look to make it four straight wins as they host Maryland (11-5, 2-3 Big Ten). This conference clash in Iowa City, which is the final game of today's college basketball schedule, is set for a…

After a strong start to the new year with an easy win at Northwestern, Ohio State has fallen on hard times, losing three-straight games. Following a heartbreaking loss to Purdue last week, the Buckeyes lost at Maryland last Sunday, and on Thursday were upset by Minnesota, who were winless in Big Ten play entering the game. Now Ohio State will have…

Have more comments, questions? Reach out to me at bwhite1 @ dispatch.com To editor: I think members of Buckeye Nation need to wake up and stop threats to football players. Winners build up and strengthen, not threaten. These young men come to get educated and developed for a career after attending Ohio State. They are learning with each game. Every…

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Florida and Michigan both own storied bowl histories, but not as much as of late. The Gators are just 1-3 both straight up and against the spread over their last four bowl games, while the Wolverines are just 1-4 SU and 1-3-1 ATS over their last five bowls. In a rematch of a bowl from three seasons ago, Florida meets Michigan in the Peach Bowl in…

The Ohio State Buckeyes (10-6, 2-3 Big Ten) will be trying to break a three-game losing streak when hitting the road against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (12-5, 4-2 Big Ten) on Sunday, January 15, 2023 at Jersey Mike's Arena. It airs at 2:15 PM ET on Big Ten Network. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the…

LINCOLN - One more offseason. One more preseason. One more football season. And one more postseason. All with a new commissioner, and an eye toward a larger future in the league. One more trip around the sun with this iteration of Big Ten football. And one more year with divisional schedules. One more year, for certain, of a Big Ten title game. The…

The College Football Playoff finally arrives on Saturday! The #4 Ohio State Buckeyes (11-1) face the #1 Georgia Bulldogs (13-0) in the Peach Bowl. Action kicks off at 8 pm ET. Below we continue our College Football odds series with an Ohio State-Georgia prediction and pick. Ohio State is 11-1 and finished in second place in the Big 10 East thanks…

If Ohio State felt it needed any of the top quarterbacks sitting in the transfer portal, wouldn't he already be in Columbus? The Buckeyes will be any quarterback's dream next season. As they have been in every season of Ryan Day's tenure. The combination of Marvin Harrison Jr., Emeka Egbuka and Cade Stover sells itself. There may not be a better…

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College football's 2022 season came to an end last week when Georgia walloped TCU in the national championship game, giving the Bulldogs back-to-back titles. Immediately following that game, several publications released "Way-Too-Early" Top 25 projections for the 2023 season. Not surprisingly, the Michigan State Spartans were not included among…

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What was the BOOM, you ask? Tommy Eichenberg will return for a final season with the Buckeyes in 2023. Get ready for more grunts next fall. Let's have a good Friday, shall we? THE ACHILLES HEEL. The term "Achilles heel" comes from the legend of the Greek hero Achilles, who was dipped in the River Styx by his mother, making him invulnerable…

This season I have been breaking down a few of college football's biggest games each week and giving out at least one bet I like from each matchup. Let's take a look at the college football playoff matchup between Ohio State and Georgia. Ohio State vs Georgia Spread, current line: If I had to pick against the spread, I would lean towards taking the…

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Each day, one of our experts will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. Here are our best bets for Thursday, Jan. 12: The play: NBA moneyline, Nets over Celtics The odds/bet: +105 ($20 to win $21) The…

Dylan Raiola turned heads recently when he de-committed from Ohio State, but one school appears to be the new favorite landing spot for the No. 1 player in the 2024 college football recruiting class. 247Sports director of recruiting Steve Wiltfong revealed his new Crystal Ball prediction for the quarterback, with Georgia emerging as the favorite to…

See the odds to win the national championship during the 2022-23 college football season The Georgia Bulldogs won their second straight national title, crushing TCU 65-7 in the national championship game This page tracked the 2023 college football championship odds, which was ultimately captured by the Georgia Bulldogs for the second straight…

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Luke Wypler's decision to enter the 2023 NFL Draft set off a domino effect on Ohio State football's offensive line. Matt Jones helped stop the tumbling of those tiles when he announced Wednesday he will be back for a sixth season. The second team All-Big Ten Conference guard gives the Buckeyes two returning starters up front, along…

Minnesota will again look for its first conference win of the season when it visits Ohio State in a Big Ten game at 6:30 p.m. ET Thursday at Value City Arena in Columbus. Minnesota (6-8, 0-3 road, 0-4 Big Ten) lost to Nebraska 81-79 in overtime on Saturday for its second straight defeat and seventh in the last nine games. Ohio State (10-5, 7-1…

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State football will have two starters back on its 2023 offensive line, thanks to Matt Jones' decision to extend his career. Jones announced Wednesday he will put of the NFL Draft and return to the Buckeyes for a sixth season. The returning starter at right guard joins left guard Donovan Jackson as holdovers for this fall as…

The Minnesota Golden Gophers (6-8, 0-4 Big Ten) will try to stop a four-game road skid when taking on the Ohio State Buckeyes (10-5, 2-2 Big Ten) on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at Value City Arena, airing at 6:30 PM ET on FS1. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Buckeyes' (-1700 to win on the moneyline)…

This article is part of our College Football Picks series. The 2021-22 College Football Playoff showed that it was in fact possible for new blood to finally break into the sport's final four teams. With big question marks hanging around a number of the playoff's annual contenders, could the 2022-23 season repeat with two programs making their…

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Inches separated TCU from perfection. After coming up just short in the Big 12 championship game against Kansas State, the Horned Frogs and first-year coach Sonny Dykes will settle for the most unexpected College Football Playoff berth in the history of the postseason format. And now the really hard part begins: third-seeded TCU enters the Vrbo…

Resale tickets are all that are left for Ohio State football's return to the College Football Playoff. Ohio State will take on Georgia for the first time since losing to the Bulldogs in the 1993 Citrus Bowl. The Buckeyes opened as 6.5-point underdogs, the first time Ohio State will come in not as a favorite since the 2021 national championship game…

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The best-case scenario for Ohio State football's 2023 offensive line is quickly falling by the wayside. Left tackle Paris Johnson Jr.'s NFL Draft declaration, formalized on Tuesday, had been all but a foregone conclusion. Same for right tackle Dawand Jones, who has not officially declared but is expected to do so as well. Ohio…

The Utah Utes come into the Rose Bowl as Pac-12 champions for the second straight season. Utah is hoping it avoids the same kind of wide-open Rose Bowl it faced last January, though. The Penn State Nittany Lions pose a new challenge out of the Big Ten and have motivation of their own to win on one of the sport's biggest stages. Penn State is making…

Georgia head coach Kirby Smart noted before the game that his team wanted to " hunt." Frogs were the prey. After failing to win a single national championship since 1980, the Georgia Bulldogs have now won back-to-back titles and finished a spotless 15-0 season in style, thrashing TCU 65-7. They never left a doubt in the domination, ending the…

The confetti was still falling from the SoFi Stadium rafters on Monday night when college football oddsmakers sent out a crystal clear statement: Georgia is the best team in the land, and we don't expect that to change. After the Bulldogs secured their second straight national title with a 65-7 destruction of TCU in the College Football Playoff…

Georgia finally stopped scoring touchdowns against TCU, and the team is already starting to think about a three-peat. The Bulldogs became the first program in over a decade to successfully defend a national title. After beating Alabama in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship, Georgia dropped the hammer on TCU with…

After two weeks of enjoyable matinees, the marquee games of college football's 2022 bowl season are up next. Most importantly, of course, we have the College Football Playoff semifinals. Second-ranked Michigan takes on No. 3 TCU before top-ranked and defending-champ Georgia squares off with No. 4 Ohio State. But there's also the remainder of the…

With the 2022 college football season officially over, it's time to direct attention to the 2023 season. There's no better way to do that than to talk about "way-too-early" top 25 rankings and look at Big Ten Championship and College Football Playoff championship odds, so we decided to do just that. We took a look at where Ohio State falls in the…

It's New Year's Eve which means it is also the biggest day of the college football season! Two College Football Playoff Semifinal matchups are on tap for Saturday. First, the TCU Horned Frogs will battle the Michigan Wolverines in the Fiesta Bowl. Later on, the Georgia Bulldogs will look to get one step closer to winning back-to-back national…

Georgia finally stopped scoring touchdowns against TCU, and the team is already starting to think about a three-peat. The Bulldogs became the first program in over a decade to successfully defend a national title. After beating Alabama in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship, Georgia dropped the hammer on TCU with…

The second big weekend of spring games features three early favorites to win the College Football Playoff National Championship. Georgia, the reigning champion in college football, takes the field in the afternoon, along with big hitters like Alabama, Ohio State and Miami. As we get set for the loaded slate this weekend, Chip Patterson broke down…

DraftKings Sportsbook wasted no time following the Georgia Bulldogs' thrashing of the TCU Horned Frogs in the title game to open up the 2023-24 College Football Playoff championship odds. Unless you've been living under a rock, you can probably guess the leaders in the clubhouse for CFP title odds. Even though the top-three schools listed are all…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Ron Swanson once told us that only three things motivate people: money, fear and hunger. The "Parks and Recreation" character apparently didn't spend much time around football locker rooms. Proving naysayers wrong remains unmatched fuel for college football teams. Athletes will search every corner of the internet for a shred of…

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State football's quest to find a starting quarterback for 2023 looms as one of the most pivotal position battles in the country this offseason. The battle between third-year Kyle McCord and second-year Devin Brown could be intense. The stakes are unquestionably massive for a team expecting to once again contend for a national…

The 2022 college football season is over. Even though the dust hasn't quite settled, we are already looking forward to the 2023 campaign. Things will look quite a bit different for those in the Big 12 Conference. The conference schedule still hasn't been announced but there will be some big-time matchups already on the schedule. The Oregon Ducks,…

Georgia will honor its fourth national championship in style this Saturday. The school announced it will stage a parade to commemorate Monday's 65-7 demolition of TCU in the College Football Playoff national title game. The festivities will begin at 12:30 p.m. ET and culminate in a celebration at Sanford Stadium at 2 p.m. Georgia Parade…

Penn State football will head into the 2023 season with high expectations The 2022-23 college football season is over, meaning it's officially time for Penn State football to start looking at the 2023 season. The Nittany Lions finished this past season 11-2 with a Rose Bowl win. It was a monumental season for Penn State after going 11-11 the two…

The defending champion No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs try to become the first team to win back-to-back College Football Playoff titles when they face the No. 3 TCU Horned Frogs Monday at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. Georgia clobbered LSU 50-30 to win the SEC title while TCU backed into the College Football Playoff after losing to Kansas State in the Big…