Before each week's Ohio State game, Eleven Warriors catches up with media members who cover the opposing team to get their perspective on the Buckeyes' upcoming opponent.
For our season-opening edition of Across The Field, we caught up with Nick Daschel, who covers Oregon State for The Oregonian, to get his perspective on the Beavers, who are traveling to Columbus to play the Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium on Saturday (12:07 p.m., ABC).
The Beavers are coming off a 1-11 season in 2017, when they failed to win a single game against a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent (their only win came against Portland State, an FCS team), but enter the new season with a new head coach in Jonathan Smith, who brought in a brand new coaching staff around him.