Ohio State’s efforts to build a roster full of some of the most talented college football players from all over the country will be evident once again in 2020.
The Buckeyes enter the season with a roster ranked third in 247Sports’ team talent composite rankings, including 14 players who were five-star composite recruits – the second-most in the country, behind only Georgia. And Ohio State’s roster is as national as ever, populated with players from 22 different states, including players from all four corners of the continental United States and even Hawaii.
With less than one week to go now until that roster will finally take the field for its season opener against Nebraska, we take a look at the makeup of the 2020 Buckeyes – who are currently at the exact limit of 85 scholarship players and are just one below the permitted total of 120 players – including how many of them were top-ranked recruits, which states are most represented on the roster and the 15 high schools that produced multiple players on this year’s team.