The Ohio State football program was expected to take a step back on defense this season after losing Jim Knowles. Knowles had the Buckeyes ranked at the top of every major category en route to them winning a national championship. Replacing him was supposed to be hard.
Instead, the Buckeyes seem to have upgraded. While Jim Knowles is now at his third school in three years, the Ohio State Buckeyes hired Matt Patricia as the defensive coordinator before this year started. All Patricia did was make the Ohio State defense even better.
With Ohio State's season now over and the NFL regular season finished, rumors are swirling that Patricia could be looking at coordinator jobs in the NFL.