Ohio State Football is Looking Great for 2025
Ohio State is looking very good for 2025. Winning a National Championship, which the Ohio State football team did last year. Brian Hartline is a great recruiter, and Ohio State has a very good 2026 wide receiver class. Ohio State received the commitment on Sunday from four-star California wideout Kayden Dixon-Wyatt. He said, “If you want to be an elite receiver, you go to Ohio State.” Dixon-Wyatt is the 12th Ohio State commit overall and the fourth wide receiver commitment in 2026. Has a college football team ever had more talent than Ohio State currently has at wide receiver?
Kayden Dixon Wyatt
The 6-foot-2, 180-pound standout is the high school teammate of fellow OSU wide receiver commit Chris Henry Jr., and now they’ll play together at the next level. Jaeden Ricetts and Brock Boyd are the other wideouts in OSU’s 2026 class. That makes four wide receivers in the 2026 recruiting class. Add that to returnees Jeremiah Smith, Brandin Iness, Carnell Tate, Quincy Porter, Mylan Graham and Bryson Rogers, and OSU has an exceptionally talented wide receiver room. The entire OSU post-spring practice depth chart can be found here. Smith might be the best college football player in the nation.
The 2026 Ohio State Recruiting Class
The Ohio State football 2026 recruiting class is already one of the top recruiting classes in the nation. Ohio State has never finished with the top recruiting class in the nation, but this year, they may. Currently, they have two incoming five-star recruits and eight four-star recruits. Ohio State also filled key needs in the transfer portal and did not lose any football players in the soring transfer portal. That was after they lost only peripheral players in the fall transfer portal.
Name, Image, and Likeness
OSU needs to contend, as all college football teams must, with Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) dollars. Under NIL, college athletes get paid. For football players, that could be several million dollars. OSU does not spend the most lavishly on football recruits. A talented player may go to a school different from OSU because that school offers more money. This also affects the transfer portal. OSU did lose out on important transfers because other schools, so odd, were offering more money. One would think that with 14 Buckeyes being drafted by the NFL.
Other Ohio State Newcomers For the 2025 Season
There will be some new faces for the OSU football team this fall. Most notably, there will be a new quarterback. Ordinarily, a new quarterback would be a death knell for a college football team, but Ohio State has experienced Lincoln Keinholz, who has looked very good this spring back there, as well as former five-star Alabama recruit Julian Sayin. The main area of weakness for OSU, if you could call it that, is at defensive tackle. At running back returnee James Peoples and transfer from West Virginia, CJ Donalson, will split the primary carries. All other positions are manned by stars.
Conclusion
OSU football is looking very good for next season. Winning the National Championship has helped them with name recognition and enhanced the attractiveness of their program. A repeat is possible in Columbus, especially if whoever is named quarterback, it may not be until the fall that head coach Ryan Day names a starter at quarterback, is up to snuff.
