COLUMBUS, Ohio — It won’t officially kick off the season for another two weeks, but the 2015 Ohio State football team has already made history. For all of the teams that have entered a college football season highly touted following a national championship campaign—1995 Nebraska, 2002 Miami (Fla.), 2005 USC, 2009 Florida, 2013 Alabama—none has earned a unanimous No. 1 ranking in the Associated Press preseason Top 25. That, however, changed on Sunday, when the Buckeyes became the first team to do just that, earning all 61 first-place votes in the AP’s first Top 25 poll of the season. Is Ohio State’s 2015 really worth that sort of hype? It sure seems that way. Returning 15 combined starters on offense and defense from a season ago, the losses from a Buckeyes team that beat Alabama and Oregon en route to capturing the first-ever College Football Playoff championship appear minimal. No Ohio State player was drafted before the second round of the 2015 NFL draft, with only a total of five Buckeyes being chosen in the draft’s seven rounds. David J. Phillip/Associated Press Ohio State’s minimal presence in the draft shouldn’t last for long, however, as this year’s Buckeyes team appears to be loaded with first-round talent. Depending on the mock draft you’re looking at, Ohio State players could potentially make up as many as six picks in the 2016 NFL draft in the first round alone…
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