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Is Ohio State still a top 5 team in 2023? 247Sports answers with their way-too-early Top 25

Is this right Buckeye fans? #GoBucks

It’s always fun to think about what your team will do next year and 247Sports is trying to help. It released a way-too-early top 25 for the 2023 college football season, and when you look at the top of the rankings, some very familiar teams are there.

For [autotag]Ohio State[/autotag], the expectation is the program doesn’t rebuild, it reloads. Will that be the case once again in 2023? It very much looks to be. 247Sports has the Buckeyes as a top-five team once again, but how high were they ranked? Find out below where the Buckeyes landed along with the rest of the early top 25.

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Thoughts on Ohio State’s signees after All-American Bowl

These seven were very impressive

The Buckeyes were very well represented at the [autotag]All-American Bowl[/autotag] on Saturday afternoon. [autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] had the most players of any school in the country playing in the game, seven, and each of them got their opportunity to play.

Some shined a bit brighter due to being a focal point of the East and West’s offense. Keep in mind, this is an all-star game, the coaches try to get everyone playing time so it’s  bit scarce.

It was still a very impressive showing for Buckeyes who will be on campus soon. The future is very bright with these seven and here are some thoughts on each of their performances during the All-American Bowl.

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Kienholz again, Ohio State signee throws second touchdown during All-American Bowl

Make it two for Lincoln #GoBucks

One, two, three, four. That’s how many touchdowns future [autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] Buckeyes scored on Saturday in the All-American Bowl.

The first two were from receivers, [autotag]Brandon Inniss[/autotag] and [autotag]Carnell Tate[/autotag]. The final two were courtesy of quarterback [autotag]Lincoln Kienholz[/autotag]. His first was a scramble and throw. On the second, the dual-threat had a clean pocket and threw a dart to his receiver for a 38-yard scoring strike.

The ball was perfectly placed to [autotag]TCU[/autotag] signee [autotag]Cordale Russell[/autotag], who was hit in stride into the end zone. The game was obviously out of hand before this score, but it still showed to [autotag]Ryan Day[/autotag] that Kienholz can do everything at the position.

A very good showing for future Buckeyes, as they were part of 28 out of 65 total points during the game.

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Watch: Ohio State quarterback signee Lincoln Kienholz throws touchdown in All-American Bowl

Lincoln Kienholz shows off his athleticism and arm strength #GoBucks

The West squad struggled for much of the [autotag]All-American Bowl[/autotag]. It had not scored a touchdown midway through the third quarter. [autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] signee [autotag]Lincoln Kienholz[/autotag] put an end to that.

The quarterback scrambled out of the pocket, set his feet while squaring his shoulders and unloaded a pass that went about 50 yards for a touchdown.

The South Dakota native is a true dual-threw option for Ohio State head coach [autotag]Ryan Day[/autotag], who is showing why the Buckeyes went after him even while he was committed to [autotag]Washington[/autotag]. Kienholz is the third Buckeye to score a touchdown in this game, following wide receivers [autotag]Brandon Inniss[/autotag] and [autotag]Carnell Tate[/autotag].

The Buckeye signees are putting on a show at the All-American Bowl.

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Watch: Ohio State signee WR Carnell Tate catches touchdown pass in All-American Bowl

Tate has star potential and showed it again #GoBucks

[autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] doesn’t have just one star receiver on his way to Columbus during this off-season, it has multiple star receivers. One of them scored earlier in the [autotag]All-American Bowl[/autotag], [autotag]Brandon Inniss[/autotag], and another, [autotag]Carnell Tate[/autotag], joined him.

Tate has been targeted plenty by [autotag]UCLA[/autotag] signee [autotag]Dante Moore[/autotag]. He is having a solid game, but he put an exclamation point on his performance with this second quarter catch. Moore found Tate streaking over the middle of the field, threw a great ball that the future Buckeye caught and ran into the end zone for a 29-yard touchdown strike. It was a big time play by Tate.

The play went for 29-yards and surely confirmed what Ohio State head coach [autotag]Ryan Day[/autotag] and wide receivers coach [autotag]Brian Hartline[/autotag] saw during Tate’s recruitment. It’s a position room that is deep and talented.

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Watch: Ohio State signee Brandon Inniss catches TD pass in All-American Bowl

The future Buckeye is showcasing his talents early in the all-star game

The Buckeyes aren’t short on wide receiver talent on campus and what is coming to Columbus as well. Wide receivers coach [autotag]Brian Hartline[/autotag] has earned a reputation of developing receivers and sending them off to the NFL which has translated to recruiting.

The pipeline will not stop anytime soon. Florida receiver [autotag]Brandon Inniss[/autotag] signed with [autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] in December. Before he gets to Columbus, he brought his talents to San Antonio and the [autotag]All-American Bowl[/autotag].

A fumble gave the East the ball in the red zone and [autotag]UCLA[/autotag] quarterback signee [autotag]Dante Moore[/autotag] found Inniss in the end zone for a second touchdown of the game for their team.

It was Inniss’ second catch of the game. He appears to have built a good rapport with Moore during practice this week.

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247Sports gives a report on Ohio State WR Noah Rogers performance at Under Armor All-American Bowl

The Buckeyes signed another very good wide receiver #GoBucks

The [autotag]Under Armor All-American Bowl[/autotag] was played Tuesday, and there wasn’t as much scoring as you would expect from a high school all-star game. The teams combined for 21 points, with one of the touchdowns coming from a pick-six.

That meant that [autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] signee [autotag]Noah Rogers[/autotag] didn’t get many opportunities to shine, but 247Sports was on hand for the whole week. With so many impressive players, not everyone gets time during the game but an impression can still be made during practice.

Rogers did exactly that. Andrew Ivins reported he “has some of the tools needed to eventually emerge as a go-to option for quarterbacks on Saturdays.”

He is part of another impressive wide receiver recruiting haul for head coach [autotag]Ryan Day[/autotag] and wide receiver coach [autotag]Brian Hartline[/autotag], which includes [autotag]Brandon Inniss[/autotag], [autotag]Carnell Tate[/autotag] and [autotag]Bryson Rodgers[/autotag].

If the report is correct, we should see Rogers performing at a high level for the Buckeyes sooner rather than later even if he didn’t shine during the game.

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What to expect from Ohio State’s newest transfer, safety Ja’Had Carter

The Buckeyes picked up a good one from the portal #GoBucks

The Ohio State football programed gained its first big win of the 2022-23 transfer cycle when it received a commitment from former [autotag]Syracuse[/autotag] safety, [autotag]Ja’Had Carter[/autotag]. The rising fourth-year player has two years of eligibility remaining. He has been terrific for the Orange, making the freshman All-American teams in his first year, followed by a solid sophomore year and a better junior year.

Carter was a menace with takeaways this season, grabbing three interceptions to go along with a fumble recovery that he took to the house. He played his best football in a three-game stretch against [autotag]Pittsburgh[/autotag], Notre Dame, and Clemson. Carter had 20 tackles, 3 picks, and a fumble recovery during that run.

It wasn’t easy finding highlights for Carter, but from what I did find, Buckeye nation should be pretty excited about the potential of the 6-foot-2-inch, 198-pound transfer.

Carter is always around the ball, even if he’s not making plays. His instincts are great, which is why he picked off multiple passes this fall. Carter has the speed to make up ground and that translates when he comes up to play the run.

The versatility that Carter has is just so impressive. One play he can read the run and come up to make the stop. The next, as the single-high safety, make the right read, keep his proper depth and come away with a pick.

There is a reason Carter was viewed as the best safety in the transfer portal this cycle. [autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] head coach [autotag]Ryan Day[/autotag] knew that he was losing at least one of his starting safeties in [autotag]Ronnie Hickman[/autotag] and found a replacement that should be plug-and-play for [autotag]Jim Knowles'[/autotag] defense next fall.

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Watch: Ohio State takes a 2-touchdown lead after a Georgia interception

The Buckeyes strike quick after a turnover #GoBucks

The Buckeyes are making a statement. Not many people thought they could play with Georgia, the defending [autotag]College Football Playoff[/autotag] champions, but this is exactly why they play the game.

[autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] had recaptured a touchdown lead after a Miyan Williams 2-yard scoring plunge. On the first play from scrimmage, Bulldog quarterback [autotag]Stetson Bennett[/autotag] made his first mistake of the game, throwing an interception to linebacker [autotag]Steele Chambers[/autotag].

It would take the Buckeyes just three plays to find the end zone again, as quarterback [autotag]C.J. Stroud[/autotag] found wide receiver [autotag]Marvin Harrison Jr.[/autotag] for the second time in the contest for a touchdown.

The 16-yard scoring play would give the Buckeyes a 21-7 lead early in the second quarter. This game has been just as entertaining as the first CFP game played earlier in the day.

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ESPN’s College GameDay selects winner of Ohio State vs Georgia and the other College Football Playoff game

Who do you think wins today? #GoBucks

The Buckeyes and Bulldogs will have to wait until prime time for them to find out who will play for a National Championship in about two weeks. ESPN’s College GameDay had a choice between the two semi-final games and chose Ohio State taking on Georgia in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.

It was an expanded crew selecting the games as David Pollack, Jesse Palmer and Joey Galloway joined Desmond Howard, Lee Corso Pat McAfee and Kirk Herbstreit in selecting who will win the College Football Playoff games this afternoon. Find out below who picked who to win the biggest games of this season starting off with the OSU and UGA matchup. (Herbstreit did not pick this game due to calling it.)

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