Even though transfers have become much more commonplace in college football, Ohio State hasn’t lost a lot of players to the transfer portal in Ryan Day’s first three years as head coach. Since Day became Ohio State’s head coach at the end of the 2018 season, the Buckeyes have lost only 13 total scholarship players to the transfer portal. While that might have seemed like a lot even five years ago, it should be viewed as a positive that Ohio State has lost only five scholarship players to transfers from last season’s roster. Alabama, by comparison, has lost 10 scholarship players to the transfer portal this offseason; even Clemson, a program that typically hasn’t had a ton of transfer portal activity, has lost eight players to transfers from last year’s roster. With the exception of wide receiver Jameson Williams, who’s now in line to start at Alabama, just about all…
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