Joel Klatt Lead College Football Analyst Another chapter in the process ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft is in the books. Quite frankly, I’m not a huge fan of the NFL Scouting Combine. I’ve never really loved it, but it is what it is. It serves as an event to get touchpoints and confirmations about … Read more
The 2025 NFL Scouting Combine officially began Thursday, which means draft season is here! The 329 NFL prospects who were invited to the combine take center stage this week in Indianapolis as they aim to raise their draft stock. The players started trickling into Lucas Oil Stadium earlier in the week, but the drills — … Read more
In the waning moments of Ohio State’s postgame media availability last month, Jeremiah Smith was asked the question a lot of folks couldn’t wait to be answered. It’s the question that pushed the conversation from a national championship debut for the talented freshman receiver to Smith’s next logical destination. To be specific: Is the 19-year-old … Read more
With Ohio State set to hire three-time Super Bowl champion and former NFL head coach Matt Patricia, the Buckeyes have capped what has been a raucous four weeks of coaches coming and going. Patricia, 50, will coordinate the defense in Columbus, Ohio. Patricia’s hire marks the second time Day has hired a former New England … Read more
This is when the College Football Playoff gets serious. The quarterfinals feature some of the most powerful brand names in the sport — well, mostly. Georgia and Ohio State have accounted for three of the previous 10 national champions to emerge from the College Football Playoff. Oregon played in the first CFP title game and … Read more
Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer A little more than five months ago, during the third week of July, the opening soliloquy for Oregon head coach Dan Lanning at Big Ten Football Media Days in Indianapolis lasted nearly nine minutes. It began with a customary expression of gratitude for conference commissioner Tony Petitti, … Read more
Ryan Day will not be fired. It never should have even been an honest talking point among the media and parts of the Ohio State fanbase that ABC’s Kirk Herbstreit labeled as the “lunatic fringe,” Saturday night in a sardonic spiel at the end of Ohio State’s 42-17 curb-stomping of Tennessee in the first round … Read more
Ohio State inspires new catchphrase for Ryan Day in rout of Tennessee Buckeyes suffer no hangover from loss to Michigan. Instead, they come back defiant and strong. Ryan Day and his staff cooked up a masterful plan against the Vols. Will Howard executed it to perfection. COLUMBUS, Ohio – The blowout had reached a crescendo … Read more
Have more comments, questions? Reach out to me at bwhite1@dispatch.com. Letters are lightly edited for clarity. On Ohio State football To Brian: Mike Arace’s column about the madness, insanity or psychosis of many OSU fans about their obsession with beating Michigan every year was excellent. He left out the countless hours spent by students, OSU staff … Read more
Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio — How different this postgame scene must have felt for Ryan Day, the embattled head coach of Ohio State, who stood in almost the exact same place three weeks ago, on Nov. 30, as everything about his team and his tenure seemed to crumble following … Read more