Ohio State continues to be one of the most stable and successful programs in college football with 9 national championships including the most recent one. Since 2009 they've won 11 or more games in 14 of the last 16 seasons.
One of those was the Covid Year, when they still made the playoffs at 8-1. The other was 2011, when Jim Tressel was dismissed and Luke Fickell took over as coach, the Buckeyes tying their all-time record for losses at 6-7.
So it was a bit of a shock Wednesday when the Buckeyes lost a four-star safety to North Carolina even as the Buckeye Sports Illustrated site banged out an article with the click-baiting title, "Concerns Surrounding Ohio State QB Julian Sayin Continue to Grow.