Ohio State enters the college football season with more star power than any school in the country but the preseason No. 1 team in the country will only be capitalizing on the jersey sales of one of those stars this season, Ezekiel Elliott.
The university, following the lead of a handful of other programs, will discontinue the sale of all jerseys aside for No. 1 and No. 15, the latter intended to be a reference to the calendar year, according to an report from the New York Times last week.
It’s a cautious approach by the university as the Ed O’Bannon case – one determining the legitimacy of universities profiting on the commercial use of athlete’s names and likeness – sits in federal appeals court. The NCAA has never allowed names to be printed on the back of university-licensed jerseys, but any number could be sold.
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