Ohio State opened their season with a 56-3 win over Ball State. For those who watched the game right from the beginning, it's fair to say the Buckeye's didn't start the game exactly the way they wanted to.
Week 1 of the 2026 college football regular season is nearly in the books. The first full Saturday of the 2026 college football regular season took place this weekend.
Each week of the college football season, Yardbarker will spotlight standout performers, some of whom will be playing on Sundays. With that in mind, here are five from Week 1.
Jeremiah Smith needed only one half to remind college football what he can do, racking up 151 receiving yards and two touchdowns in No. 1 Ohio State’s season-opening 56-3 victory over Ball State.
Ohio State opened the 2026 season with a 56-3 blowout win over Ball State, but head coach Ryan Day was far from happy behind closed doors. Freshman running back Legend Bey showed raw speed that made the Buckeyes recruit him heavily last winter.
Ryan Day isn’t waiting until the final week of the regular season to make Ohio State’s priorities surrounding Michigan perfectly clear. The Buckeyes are doing something unusual Saturday, holding Senior Day during their 2026 season opener against Ball State rather than during their traditional final home game of the regular season.
The Ohio State Buckeyes will induct longtime head coach Jim Tressel into their Ring of Honor on Saturday, and they had a perfect way of dressing things up for the ceremony.
The Ohio State Buckeyes are under 24 hours away from opening their season against the Ball State Cardinals in Columbus. Although much of the national attention
Ohio State football coach Ryan Day says he is not looking for the next job. Day told Eleven Warriors he wants to remain with the Buckeyes for at least another decade, and he does not see an opening elsewhere that would pull him away.
Ohio State will open its season against Ball State on Saturday, marking the official end of fall camp. Many players made their mark for the Buckeyes during August, but a few took a step back.
The Detroit Lions waived former Ohio State center Seth McLaughlin this week, opening a 53-man roster spot less than two weeks before the regular-season opener (per the NFL.com transaction log).
Ohio State’s offensive line spent most of last season keeping quarterback Julian Sayin remarkably clean. Then everything changed in the Buckeyes’ two biggest games.
Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day has never had a losing season. In fact, he's never even gotten close. Day is simply judged on a "championship-or-bust" scale and that remains true once again in 2026.
Legend Bey is clearly going to be important for Ohio State in 2026, as Ryan Day’s comments all but solidifies his status. The Ohio State Buckeyes scratched and clawed to get freshman Legend Bey to Columbus, and now the former Tennessee flip is set to make an immediate impact.
The Tennessee Vols are hoping to flip five-star EDGE DJ Jacobs from the Ohio State Buckeyes, and it sounds like UT has a real chance. Tennessee’s pursuit of 2027 five-star EDGE DJ Jacobs, an Ohio State commit since last December, has Buckeyes fans in panic mode.
The Ohio State Buckeye’s 2026 season will kickoff this Saturday, when the Nation’s top-ranked team plays host to the Ball State Cardinals. As the Buckeyes
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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