The curtain has fallen on another spectacular college football season, and despite a dud of a College Football Playoff national championship game, it was one to remember and one where Ohio State once again had a shot at claiming the ultimate prize.
While the Buckeyes came up a wee bit short against the Georgia Bulldogs, the expectation in Columbus is that OSU will make another run at it again in 2023. In fact, many of the same teams we’ve been seeing in high-stakes games on our television sets and streaming devices are expected to show up on those same platforms again next year.
We’ll be making the rounds on preseason expectations for Ohio State, the Big Ten and other teams in the weeks and months ahead, but one analyst we liked to follow consistently in 2022 was Fox College Football’s Joel Klatt. He shared his thoughts on his personal list of top teams weekly, and he was as unbiased as Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh’s press conferences are quirky.
Well, now that the focus is on 2023 in what little offseason there is for college football these days, Klatt shared his very early top 10 for next season. Of course, we are interested in where he has Ohio State.
Here is Klatt’s way-too-early top 10 heading into next year and where the Buckeyes land in his opinion.