June 21, 2026

Reporters roundtable: Did Kyle McCord settle Ohio State's starting QB competition?

Editor’s note: After each Ohio State football game, beat reporters Joey Kaufman and Bill Rabinowitz discuss the lasting storylines and other key developments. A top-10 road matchup with Notre Dame is just over the horizon. Ohio State has one more nonconference game left on its schedule before making its highly anticipated trip to South Bend. The looming test adds to the stakes of a quarterback competition between Kyle McCord and Devin Brown that has continued into the season. When Buckeyes coach Ryan Day was asked following last Saturday’s 35-7 win over Youngstown State if he might settle on a starter this week in order to give them all of the snaps to better prepare for the test against the Irish, he acknowledged the possibility. “That’s worth considering, yeah,” Day said. “That’s something we got to talk about as a staff.” Kaufman: The issue is whether McCord has done well enough…

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