June 27, 2026

Inside the Ohio State offensive game plan: How the Buckeyes scheme to beat the nation’s best defense


COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nine men are gathered around a conference table in a room in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, with a 10th against the back wall of the room with a green laser pointer in his hand. It’s midweek game prep for an Ohio State football game in November (not Michigan), and the offensive staff is doing what it does every week. They have done the same this week in Atlanta for this Peach Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal matchup against No. 1 Georgia on Saturday night, as the Buckeyes took over the north tower of a downtown Atlanta hotel, with the Ohio State logo on the elevator doors and Ryan Day doing everything he could to make a hotel feel like their football home. In that home, the work of beating the best defense in the country followed the same procedure as always. The Buckeyes take a massive…

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