Although the Ohio State athletic department has had conversations about the field at Ohio Stadium amid calls from the NFL Players’ Association to ban the type of turf the Buckeyes play on, Ohio State does not currently plan to replace the playing surface inside the Shoe.
The NFLPA recently launched a campaign to ban fields made of slit-film turf, a type of turf which uses various fake blades of grass rather than a single blade, citing research that indicates slit-film turf “has a statistically significant higher risk of (lower extremity) injury than the League average,” according to Pro Football Talk.