If there is a 4 or 5 star high school player who Urban Meyer thinks would fit in at Ohio State you can bet the coach is going after him regardless of where he lives. But Urban Meyer and his staff spend a lot of their time recruiting certain states hard, and it’s easy to see why.
Each year different recruiting services evaluate every state and list them according to the number of high value recruits each state produced. There will be some variance in the rankings because each service uses a different criteria.
But usually Ohio will be around the No.