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Ohio State star Jeremiah Smith eager to put on show especially if Notre Dame decides to ‘play man’
ATLANTA — Jeremiah Smith, Ohio State’s superstar freshman receiver, sounded downright giddy at the possibility of seeing single coverage on Monday night.
Notre Dame has a terrific secondary, and typically relies on that group. It led the nation in passing efficiency defense. But it hasn’t seen a group of receivers like the ones belonging to the Buckeyes. They were third in passing efficiency.
“If you are going to play man [to-man defense] against Ohio State, be ready,” Smith said Saturday. “I can’t wait to put on a show.”
The dynamic wideout destroyed Tennessee and Oregon in the first two rounds of the playoff, making 13 catches for 290 yards and four touchdowns. Texas limited him to just one reception for three years by sending extra defensive backs his way, freeing up Ohio State’s other dynamic weapons.
This week, Notre Dame standout freshman cornerback Leonard Moore said the Irish aren’t going to change “who we are” by switching to zone coverage.
“We’re going to play man coverage like we do every week,” said Moore, the National Freshman Defensive Player of the Year, as voted on by the Football Writers Association of America.
He added: “We’re going to go out there and challenge the receivers.”
Smith is ready to be tested. Ohio State also has explosive threats Emeka Egbuka (947 yards, 10 touchdowns) and Carnell Tate (698 yards, four touchdowns) on the outside who are difficult to deal with.
“None of us think we can be covered. I mean, we actually talked about this yesterday, as well,” Smith said. “If that’s what they do, that’s what they do. We’re just going to go out there, play our game and show the reason not to play man on man.”
Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman doesn’t sound all that interested in coaching in the NFL. It was reported recently that the Bears are looking to interview Freeman for their head coach vacancy.
“To hear that the Bears have interest, it’s humbling. It’s the NFL,” he said. “But it’s also a reminder [that] with team success, comes individual success.
“I have put zero thought into coaching in the NFL. All my attention has just been on getting this team prepared for every opportunity we have in front of us. Probably not the answer you’re looking for, but that’s the answer you’re going to get.”
Freeman recently signed a four-year contract extension with Notre Dame that extends through the 2030 season.
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Ryan Day will have some very familiar competition in the Big 10 soon.
The son of the Ohio State football coach, R.J. Day, announced his commitment to Northwestern for the Class of 2027 on Sunday.
Northwestern plays in the same conference as Ohio State and the schools will face each other.
R.J. Day, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound quarterback from — not surprisingly — Columbus, Ohio, has started for three years at St. Francis DeSales HS as he heads towards his senior season.
According to reports, the younger Day had other offers from Purdue, Syracuse, Cincinnati and South Florida, as well as others.
Northwestern has eight quarterbacks on head coach David Braun’s roster.
And the offensive coordinator for the Wildcats is Chip Kelly, who served in the same role for Ryan Day at Ohio State when the Buckeyes won the title in 2024.
Kelly, the former head coach at UCLA and Oregon, was also the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire when Ryan Day was the team captain from 1998-2001.
Most recently, Kelly was the OC with the Las Vegas Raiders before he took the job with Northwestern.
“It’s really surreal when you think about the relationships that we’ve had with those two as a family over the years,” R.J. Day told ESPN earlier this month. “Coach Kelly coached my dad in college, so that adds another layer to it.”
Cincinnati Reds legend and well-known gambler Pete Rose was possibly more than just curious about Ohio State football’s 2012 season when he texted Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer.
Appearing on “The Triple Option” show with Alabama running back Mark Ingram May 6, Meyer told a story about his relationship with Rose.
After OSU hired Meyer, the Reds asked him to throw out the first pitch at a game. Meyer threw to his son, Nathan, and walked into the dugout, where Rose, MLB’s all-time hit leader, was waiting to greet him.
“I couldn’t get enough talking about ‘Big Red Machine,’ and he wanted to talk college football,” Meyer said on the podcast, explaining how the two spoke for hours and exchanged numbers.
Meyer said that during his first season, Rose texted him early on. He wanted information about the team, like news on Braxton Miller’s shoulder injury.
“I told that to someone, and they said, ‘You’re an idiot. Do you know he’s trying to get information from you for gambling, and you could get in trouble?’ ” Meyer said.
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Though Meyer asserted that he never disclosed much, he started to steer the conversations clear of college football after he realized Rose potentially wanted information for gambling.
The two had another conversation in Las Vegas, where Rose told Meyer he gambled daily after retiring.
Rose was banned from baseball for betting on the sport, something he admitted to in his 2004 autobiography. Rose was reinstated in 2025 and so is considered eligible for the Hall of Fame.
Still baseball’s most prolific hitter (4,256 hits), Rose died in 2024.
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