With college football around a month and a half away from kicking off, the venerable Phil Steele released his yearly college football preview magazine.
Steele provides in-depth previews for all Football Bowl Subdivision teams and one of the best components of his magazines are his top 65 position group rankings. For offense, Steele ranks where each team’s unit falls for quarterbacks, running backs, receivers and offensive line.
It’s difficult to project how a team’s specific unit will perform in a season as teams will have injuries, as well as players who overperform or underperform. Regardless, these lists provide us with expectations for teams and players headed into the season.
Ohio State has been spectacular on offense in recent years as it was a top-two-scoring offense in both 2022 and 2021.
With CJ Stroud, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Paris Johnson Jr., Dawand Jones and Luke Wypler off to the NFL, the Buckeyes are losing some great players. The good news is they’re also bringing back many high-quality players from last year’s unit and have players ready to step into bigger roles.
Ohio State fared pretty well on Steele’s lists as it was ranked in the top 10 in three of the four position groups. Here’s how it all shook out.