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In the 2014-15 season, the Ohio State men’s hockey team opened up its season at home against the Providence Friars. The Buckeyes split the series, but little did they know at the time they were facing the eventual national champions. Now opening the 2016-17 season ...

The No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes enter Week 6 of the college football season as arguably the hottest team in the nation. Coach Urban Meyer’s defense leads the country with 9.3 points allowed per game, but will face a dynamic Indiana Hoosiers’ offense that has ...

If there’s one word to define an Urban Meyer offense, it’s speed. Since being hired at Ohio State in 2012, the Buckeye offense under Meyer has finished the season twice ranked in the top 10. However, through many different players, Meyer has been attempting to ...

The Ohio State football team has suffered numerous injuries in 2016, more so than previous years. Before last week’s 58-0 victory over Rutgers, the No. 2 Buckeyes lost redshirt sophomore backup right guard Demetrius Knox for eight weeks with a broken foot. OSU coach Urban Meyer ...

Since taking over the job in 2012, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer has had his team tested against perennial Big Ten bottom feeder Indiana and coach Kevin Wilson. Meyer’s first game against Wilson and the Hoosiers in 2012 ended in a 52-49 nail-biter that came ...

Ohio State men’s hockey coach Steve Rohlik’s message to his team in the offseason was clear: A fast start to the season will be a key factor in the team having an opportunity at postseason play. The Buckeyes did just that in their exhibition game ...

The Buckeyes host Ontario-based Wilfrid-Laurier University on Sunday in its annual exhibition game prior to the start of the regular season, which begins Oct. 7 against No. 3 Denver. OSU started last season with eight straight losses, and with the majority of ‘15-’16 roster returning, ...

A few weeks back, during Ohio State coach Urban Meyer’s weekly radio show, he was asked about redshirt junior quarterback J.T. Barrett being just five touchdowns away from the school’s career passing touchdowns record. “I was like, ‘five away from what?’ Because it doesn’t seem ...

  Entering Saturday’s game against Rutgers, Ohio State redshirt junior quarterback J.T. Barrett needed just three touchdown passes to break the school’s career passing touchdown record of 57 that Bobby Hoying set during his time at OSU from 1992 to 1995. Barrett needed just one ...

The offseason in any sport has its drama, and that’s certainly the case for the Ohio State women’s hockey team. Coming off a disappointing 10-25-1 season in 2015-16, OSU bid adieu to three transfers — including its captain Alexa Ranahan, and top scorer Claudia Kepler ...