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We're buying Ohio State's explosive playmakers after 8 games

The Buckeyes' home run hitters on both sides of the ball are keeping them afloat as the No. 1 team in the country.

After a disappointingly slow start to 2015 -- an inevitability, perhaps, given the sky-high expectations the Buckeyes faced heading into their championship-defending season -- Ohio State appears to be firing on all cylinders again. They've dispatched Maryland, Penn State, and Rutgers without much trouble, and finally look a lot like the multi-tooled monsters that took down Alabama and Oregon to close out last year's campaign.

The news from Saturday morning that newly-appointed starter J.