Those include a big discussion of your thoughts about Ryan Day’s credo to win with humility; Julian Sayin and the Heisman race; this season among the greatest in Ohio State history; the best way to think of the chase for the Natty; and some reaction to the news that Kentucky fired its coach and Brian Hartline seems like a reasonable candidate for the job.

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Ohio State’s record for first-team All-Americans in a season is seven in 1974. Next is six in 1970, and five in the 1942, 1969 and 2021 seasons.

Could the Buckeyes approach that number of first-team All-Americans this season?

On this big Wednesday episode of The Bill and Doug Show, we re-rank the Top 22 Buckeyes for the third time this season w…

Ohio State beat Penn State 38-14 on Saturday, and on this Sunday Soundoff, Doug and Bill cover a boatload of topics, leaning on questions and comments from Substack subscribers.

Among the topics:

* Ohio State’s new Heisman Trophy push for Julian Sayin and Jeremiah Smith

* Comparing Sayin’s adjusted completion percentage to other great quarterbacks

* W…

Ohio State and Penn State will play for the 33rd straight year on Saturday, and then the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions will take a two-year break from each other, as determined by the Big Ten schedule.

Ohio State’s only protected rivalry is Michigan, and Penn State has no protected rivalry games in this Big Ten structure. So the teams won’t see e…

COLUMBUS — Ohio State vs. Michigan is five weeks away, which means it’s not too early for a breakdown of the Buckeyes vs. the Wolverines.

On this episode of The Bill and Doug Show for Substack subscribers, the focus is how Michigan might match up with the No. 1 team in the country as Ohio State looks to end a four-game losing streak to Michigan.

First, Bi…

Luke Fickell put in 15 seasons coaching at Ohio State and waited until he was 44 years old to take his first coaching job. It worked out great at Cincinnati and now isn’t going very well at Wisconsin, where the Buckeyes will travel on Saturday to face the Badgers in what could be Fickell’s last season in Madison.

What kind of path might Ohio State assistants like Brian Hartline and James Laurinaitis follow in their careers? Who among current OSU assistants — including Tim Walton, Keenan Baily and Carlos Locklyn — could be head coaches in the future?

How many Ohio State assistants of the past became head coaches? And if Fickell is fired at Wisconsin, could he wind up back on Ohio State’s staff?

It’s a coaching show, plus Whatcha Watching, Eating and Thinking, on this Wednesday episode of The Bill and Doug Show for Substack subscribers.

COLUMBUS — It’s another Sunday Soundoff after Ohio State moved to 6-0 with a 34-16 win over Illinois on Saturday. The Buckeyes earned 113 of the available 132 first-place votes on both polls Sunday while comfortably remaining at No. 1.

Bill and Doug took your questions and comments that focused on four areas:

It’s the Sunday Soundoff a day late, so it’s actually the Monday Soundoff on The Bill and Doug Show.

It’s still Bill Landis and Doug Lesmerises reacting to your questions and comments springing from the Buckeyes’ 42-3 win over Minnesota on Saturday.

That includes not just game questions, but a few about Jim Knowles at Penn State and why the national discussion around Ohio State maybe isn’t what you want it to be.

Thanks for joining this Soundoff episode of The Bill and Doug Show.

Who are the best players for the No. 1 Ohio State Buckeyes?

Bill Landis and Doug Lesmerises like to ask themselves that question every so often, and they did it again on this episode of The Bill and Doug Show. After ranking the 22 best Buckeyes in the preseason, they are back to try it again heading into Week 6 of the season.

Four guys from the…

Ohio State might be playing the way it knows it should rather than the way it really wants to, and that’s a good sign for the Buckeyes.

After a 24-6 win over Washington for the No. 1 Buckeyes, Bill Landis and Doug Lesmerises took a bunch of questions and comments from Substack subscribers, focusing on the offense, and broke it all down on the …

Take Ohio State out of the recent history of Big Ten quarterback play, and it gets dark quickly.

But there’s a light this season.

On this premium episode of The Bill and Doug Show, Bill Landis and Doug Lesmerises dive into the quarterback situations for all 18 Big Ten teams. Who’s in trouble? Who’s in the middle? Look at all the teams that are actually happy!

And where do Ohio State and its opponent on Saturday, Washington, rank in these tiers?

Then it’s a look at the last 10 years of Big Ten quarterbacks, with an attempt to rank the 10 best non-OSU QBs of the last decade in the league. It’s impossible. But reinforcements have arrived. Big Ten expansion is one way QB play in the league has been saved.

Thanks for joining The Bill and Doug Show.

Recruiting is dead, roster building is in.

On this premium episode of The Bill and Doug Show, the focus is the new way that Ohio State and other teams gather players, and the realization that recruiting used to be the primary way to judge successful talent acquisition, and now it’s a piece of it.

Retention, recruiting and the transfer portal…

Ahead of the 3:30 kickoff against Grambling State, Bill and Doug take a look at some early Big Ten games, what’s going on with Texas QB Arch Manning in Week 2, and then dive into what to watch for from the Buckeyes in a game in which they are favored by 55.5 points.

Thanks for checking it out, and make sure to join the guys for their live postgame show on YouTube right when the game ends.