Ohio State has a higher ceiling than any other team in the Big Ten
Ohio State has 16 former 5-star recruits on its roster, per 247.
Rutgers has gotten 3 former 5-star recruits in its entire history, and none of them are on this roster.
The talent gap is so, so evident. That's not a surprise, but it is jarring to see.
— Brian Fonseca (@briannnnf) October 2, 2021
Claiming this as a down year for Ohio State may have been premature. The talent on this team was always evident, but something just wasn’t clicking. Now, it appears as though things are starting to come together just in time to run through the Big Ten schedule.
As good as Michigan, Iowa, and Penn State have looked this season, the ceiling for those teams just isn’t as high as what it is for Ohio State with all the four and five-star talent oozing out of the roster. If the team can continue to improve and be as aggressive and interested as what we saw against Rutgers, all of those knee-jerk reactions to the demise of OSU this year will have been severely premature.