Ohio State declared offseason champs by Pro Football Focus.

Ohio State dropped its two biggest games of the season last year to Michigan and Missouri, but it looks to have just increased head coach Ryan Day’s resolve.

The Buckeyes have spent several million dollars in search of an excellent roster this offseason according to CFB Focus and have redefined what “amateur” athletics entail in the process.

Recently, the prominent scouting website Pro Football Focus declared Ohio State the unofficial winner of college football’s offseason, according to a post on its X account.

Day set the foundation for Ohio State’s victorious offseason by convening a group of Columbus businessmen in pursuit of funding and shared a driving analogy with them.

“If the speed limit’s 45 miles per hour, and you drive 45 miles per hour, a lot of people are going to pass you by,” Day remarked. “If you go too fast, you’re going to get pulled over.”

Pro Football’s Focus’s Buckeyes proclamation has fans of colleges around the country wondering how it will all transfer on the football field this fall.

Among the names on the Buckeyes’ list of offseason transfer portal additions is some of the top athletes from the SEC and Big 12 Conferences.

 

First-team All-SEC performers include Ole Miss running back Quinshon Judkins and Alabama safety Caleb Downs.

Judkins rushed for nearly 1,200 yards and 15 touchdowns last season for the Rebels.

Downs had 70 solo tackles, two interceptions and three pass breakups for the Tide, and will join his teammate, center Seth McLaughlin, in the Buckeyes’ portal class this season.

Kansas State quarterback Will Howard is a second-team All-Big 12 performer who also chose the Buckeyes in the transfer portal and might push for a starting spot straight immediately.

Now that the dust has settled from the first stage of college football’s offseason, it’s hard for Buckeyes supporters to be anything but positive about the next season.

Arch-nemesis Jim Harbaugh and many of his top coaches are off to the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers, and the Buckeyes have once again re-loaded with one of the most talented rosters in college football, ahead of the NCAA’s inaugural 12-team playoff.

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