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Big Ten season preview: Ohio State Buckeyes

The nicknames have seemingly been rolled out one after the other for Ohio State.

This has been labeled the “Year of Development.” The practice facility has become the “Land of the Wolves.” The mantra has become tied to finding “The Edge.”

Just about the only thing that hasn’t been worked into a title, though, is what Urban Meyer keeps hinting his young Buckeyes are capable of providing: The Sequel to 2014.

“I see that potential,” Meyer said. “I see it, and I think 2014 was the template that everybody wants. J.T. Barrett was buried in the depth chart, Darron Lee, Eli Apple, [Ezekiel] Elliott, [Michael] Thomas -- those guys were no-names.