National Signing Day wrapped on Wednesday, and the Ohio State was unusually low in the class rankings. Its 2019 class finished the day third in the Big Ten behind Michigan and Penn State and 14th nationally. That’s way lower than both OSU’s four-year average (ranked 3.50) and 10-year average (5.40), per the 247Sports Composite. It’s way lower than the Buckeyes ever did under Urban Meyer, who signed top-seven classes every year. The last time an Ohio State recruiting class didn’t finish first or second (it usually was first) in the Big Ten was 2010, near the end of the Jim Tressel era. The No. 14 national ranking also marks the lowest finish for the Buckeyes since that year, when Tressel put together the 20th-ranked class in the country. But believe it or not, there are a couple of legitimate reasons as to why Ohio State’s class finished so low both…
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