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Building a Monster

Ohio State's longest offseason ever will finally end after 301 days. This will be the most-prepared team in program history.

That's 301 days for Jonathon Cooper (above) to return after playing right up to the brink of burning a redshirt in 2019. He had to choose between Michigan, the B1G title game or whatever came afterwards before sitting out to preserve this season. He chose to play in Ann Arbor.

It's 301 days for Master Teague III, whose achilles injury six months ago put this season in doubt and created urgency to reel in Trey Sermon, for whom it's personally been 349 days.