The Ohio State Buckeyes will be back on the field on Saturday when they kick off their season against Ball State. Here are two winners and two losers from the first three weeks of fall camp.
Ohio State will kick off its 2026 season on Saturday vs. Ball State at 12:30 p.m. ET at Ohio Stadium, and the Buckeyes have high expectations to win the national championship.
Ohio State will begin the 2026 college football season Saturday against Ball State before facing a much tougher opponent at Texas one week later. The main question heading into that Week 2 matchup, with one game between, will be how Ryan Day intends to deploy his loaded offense.
Ohio State has taken another step forward in its pursuit of one of the more intriguing wide receivers in the 2028 class. Four-star prospect Malachi Lee recently trimmed his list to a final 12, and the Buckeyes made the cut alongside Oregon, Michigan, Nebraska, USC, Texas A&M, Rutgers, Miami, Virginia Tech, UCLA, Florida, and Arizona State.
The Staples Wreckers of Westport, Connecticut just added an extremely valuable weapon to their coaching staff. That would be former Ohio State Buckeyes' championship-winning quarterback Cardale Jones.
Ohio State will open the season against Ball State on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Ohio Stadium. Ahead of the season opener, Ryan Day previewed what to expect from the Buckeyes in Week 1.
Former Ohio State and NFL quarterback Cardale Jones has put playing football in his rearview mirror. As the 2026 football season gets underway, the former national champion is moving on to a new career as a coach.
The Ohio State Buckeyes kick off their season at 12:30 p.m. ET in Columbus Saturday against Ball State. After a nonconference schedule that includes a trip to Austin to rematch the Texas Longhorns in Week 2, the Buckeyes' schedule ramps up when Big Ten play gets underway later this month.
Ohio State will welcome in a major 5-star target for two of its biggest games this season. The Ohio State Buckeyes have no plans of slowing down their wide receiver recruiting pipeline, even with Brian Hartline no longer in the picture.
The Ohio State Buckeyes’ Big Ten battle with Illinois just became a bit more important. The Ohio State Buckeyes have the majority of their work done in
Kyle McCord was traded across the NFL on Sunday and the storyline goes deeper invoking another former Ohio State player. NFL roster cutdowns over the weekend brought plenty of storylines for former Ohio State football players, but none stranger than what happened with former Buckeye quarterbacks Quinn Ewers and Kyle McCord.
Former Ohio State standout Malik Harrison is looking for a new NFL home after the Pittsburgh Steelers released the linebacker on Sunday in a move that creates $4.75 million in salary cap room.
Ohio State sits atop the AP preseason poll, and with Julian Sayin leading a stacked offense, the national championship talk is already loud. Ryan Day, however, isn’t interested in preseason praise.
Former Ohio State TE Jelani Thurman looks like he found the perfect home after leaving Columbus if his first game in the ACC means anything. The Ohio State Buckeyes saw more than 30 players transfer away from the program last winter.
According to Aaron Wilson, the Panthers are waiving former Ohio State DT Tywone Malone as they begin cutting their roster down to 53 players. Malone, 23, was a four-star recruit and the 16th-ranked defensive lineman in the 2021 recruiting class out of Oradell, New Jersey.
Ohio State is a week away from its season opener against Ball State, and fall camp has provided a clearer picture of what the Buckeyes’ offense will look like in 2026.
From the moment he hit the field for Ohio State, pro football fans have been waiting for wide receiver Jeremiah Smith to be eligible for the NFL Draft.
Five-star edge defender DJ Jacobs remains pledged to Ohio State, but the SEC pull from Tennessee is getting stronger by the day. The top overall recruit in the 2027 class committed to the Buckeyes last December over heavy suitors like Georgia and Miami.
Ohio State and head coach Ryan Day are coming from a place of strength. They finished last season with a 12-2 record and reached the College Football Playoff.
Nick Saban, the seven-time national championship coach now serving as a college football analyst, reflected Friday on the only time he was fired in his career, taking full responsibility for his dismissal as defensive backs coach at Ohio State more than four decades ago.
In case there were any doubts that Jeremiah Smith will seamlessly transition to the NFL, worry no more.
Talent-wise, you'd be hard-pressed to find a Big Ten program that has boasted more superstars, though. In fact, in a recent All-Decade team published by Diare Carragher of PFF, the Buckeyes were extremely well represented.
There's a world in which Jett Harrison, the youngest Harrison, is better than both his older brother and perhaps even better than his Hall of Fame dad.
The Ohio State Buckeyes are going into the new college football season with the kind of expectation that comes with being ranked No. 1 before playing a single game.
The expanded College Football Playoff has made the regular season more forgiving, which was one of the strongest arguments for moving beyond four teams.
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