Ohio State football lost a highly touted linebacker to the transfer portal in Gabe Powers, but it looks like the Buckeyes could potentially see him on the enemy sideline next season. The former four-star prospect from Marysville, Ohio, saw limited action since arriving on campus in 2022.
It is always heartbreaking when a local guy leaves, but Powers has shown a lot of patience throughout his career in Columbus and has only seen 50 snaps as a Buckeye. It looks like he might be staying in the Big Ten though as he has set up three visits and two are within the conference.
The Ohio product has set up visits with the Kansas State Wildcats of the Big 12 as well as the Minnesota Gophers and Wisconsin Badgers within the Big Ten. He would now doubt elevate any of those three defenses and considering once a Buckeye always a Buckeye, we will be cheering him on every step of the way.
A turnover trashcan foreshadowed a coaching search best described as a dumpster fire that wound up costing both a coach and athletic director their jobs. A revolving door to the coaching office. NCAA investigations and scholarship reductions.
Don’t forget the mustard bottle thrown onto the Neyland Stadium field or the golf ball that came perilously close to Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin — whose one-year stint made him the first of seven coaches, counting two interims, at Tennessee after Philip Fulmer’s firing after the 2008 season.
No. 6 Ohio State is very accustomed to the playoff stage with the Buckeyes chasing their first national championship since 2014 and first title game berth since 2020. Seventh-ranked Tennessee has its own championship pedigree, though its last national title came in 1998. The Volunteers had been the butt of too many jokes for too many painful years.
That officially ends Dec. 21 when ninth-seeded Tennessee visits No. 8 seed Ohio State (10-2, No. 6 CFP) in the first round of the newly expanded College Football Playoff with the winner traveling to the Rose Bowl to face top-ranked Oregon.
“We’ve done our job and gotten this place back to back to where it needs to be and where it’s supposed to be,” said center Cooper Mays, who played high school ball in Knoxville and knows what this game means. “We’re out here in the in the thick of things going into December, going into the playoffs. And that’s kind of all you can ask for at this point in the season.”
Plenty of credit goes to coach Josh Heupel who has the Vols (10-2, No. 9 CFP) here in his fourth season on Rocky Top.
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