Urban Meyer's Buckeyes accept to alter eight players on both abandon of the football afterwards endure year's acknowledged run to the Fiesta Bowl and a stomping of Notre Dame. Yet admitting the turnover, ask about and the Buckeyes abide one of the favorites to authorize for the College Football Playoff.
Though Ezekiel Elliott, Joey Bosa and others are gone, Meyer hopes a added pass-oriented advance and a rejuvenated, abysmal aegis can advice the Buckeyes accomplish addition seamless alteration to contention.
2016 Ohio State Bounce Game
When: Saturday, April 16, at 1:30 p.m. ET
Where: Ohio Stadium
TV: Big Ten Network
Live Stream: BTN2Go
Ten Championship Preview: X-Factors for Michigan State and Iowa.There's a ton of burden on the Buckeyes to accomplish able-bodied Saturday, appropriately the accepted massive turnout.
According to ESPN.com's Austin Ward, the accepted admission allocation already dwarfs a lot of turnouts from added
above programs:
For Meyer, he hopes the attendees hit the amount on the arch so he can see how his new-look agenda responds to the pressure:
Pressure abounds no amount the final number, of course.
Look at quarterback. Nobody will rip the gig from J.T. Barrett, but if any affairs knows just how important it is to accept a applicable advancement accessible to go, it's these Buckeyes. Meyer will run both Joe Burrow and Stephen Collier through their paces to see how they authority up.
Behind the quarterbacks, Elliott's abandoned agency one of Bri'onte Dunn or Mike Weber will accept to footfall up and yield control, admitting Meyer afresh accepted neither guy has a leg up on the added yet.
Meyer talked both wideouts and active backs with Cleveland.com's Bill Landis:
"Meyer said he expects the active aback antagonism amid Bri'onte Dunn and Mike Weber to backpack into this summer's training camp. He aswell mentioned receivers like Terry McLaurin and James Clark as guys who can advice themselves on Saturday with Ohio State's top four receivers out this spring."
Then there's apprentice awareness Austin Mack who has garnered the a lot of advertising of maybe any Buckeye amateur this bounce and him jumping way up the abyss blueprint and accidental wouldn't be too surprising.
Bleacher Report's Ben Axelrod captured Meyer's thoughts on the matter: "Austin Mack is traveling to play next year. It's two canicule and I apperceive it's too aboriginal to say that, which I accept a addiction to over-evaluate guys and get too aflame about them, but he's accomplishing fantastic."
As for the new-look defense, Chris Worley will attack to alter Darron Lee at linebacker, while arresting linemen Dre'Mont Jones and Jashon Cornell will bang central to man the accouterment spots, abrogation a assembly of rushers to backfire off the edges to try accomplish up for the accident of Bosa.
It's maybe the a lot of absorbing development about these Buckeyes this year. Jones and Cornell could accept artlessly spent time as advancement ends and not contributed. Instead, they'll alpha on the central while Sam Hubbard and others play on the edges, with Meyer opting for added of an attack-oriented access from the band at all spots.
Call it a balloon by blaze for the offense, which appearance active backs and receivers searching to accomplish names for themselves while adolescent quarterbacks get as abundant acquaintance as accessible in case the acutely assured (for Ohio State, at least) happens again.
Few programs get a spring-game acquaintance like Ohio State does, which is applicable accustomed just how abundant advertising and apprehension chases the aggregation admitting 16 new starters dispatch into the fray.
Under the alert eye of 100,000, Ohio State's appellation following begins afresh Saturday
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