Jim Knowles absent as Ohio State holds title celebration - ESPN
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State, the first team to run the gauntlet of four playoff games on its way to the national title, celebrated with 30,000 Buckeyes fans on Sunday at Ohio Stadium.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State, the first team to run the gauntlet of four playoff games on its way to the national title, celebrated with 30,000 Buckeyes fans on Sunday at Ohio Stadium.
Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles is finalizing a deal to become the new defensive coordinator at Penn State, sources told ESPN on Sunday.
In the immediate aftermath of Ohio State's hard-fought victory over Penn State on Saturday, a road victory against what was, at the time, the No. 3 team in the country, the footage from a raucous visiting locker room swiftly went viral on social media. The video shows the Buckeyes cramped into a narrow space at Beaver Stadium as rap music blares and different members of the coaching staff take turns dancing in front of the team. Everyone's excitement and jubilation reach new levels when defensive coordinator Jim Knowles, age 59, forces his way into the middle of the melee and unleashes, well, something.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — One by one, the bodies caromed and ricocheted off Will Howard, the Ohio State quarterback whose skin was coated with sweat and dirt and the grass-stained remnants of the sweetest slide he's ever slid, the one that sealed a victory over a program he once dreamed of representing. Seven days had passed since Howard, a former three-star prospect from Downington, Pennsylvania, a western suburb of Philadelphia, boldly proclaimed how much the impending matchup between the Buckeyes and No. 3 Penn State meant to him, how he'd grown up rooting for the Nittany Lions and viewed this trip to Beaver Stadium as a homecoming. "They didn't think I was good enough," Howard said in reference to Penn State's coaching staff during a postgame news conference in late October. "But I guess we'll see next week if I was."
Florida State, Michigan, Oklahoma and USC were all ranked in the preseason AP Top 25 college football rankings, with both the Seminoles and Wolverines listed in the top 10. Fast-forward 10 weeks, and not only are all four programs currently ranked outside the top 25, but all four have at least three losses just eight weeks into the season.
Former Alabama freshman safety Caleb Downs is transferring to Ohio State, a source told ESPN on Friday night.
ANN ARBOR, Michigan — For Michigan and Ohio State, the entire season often comes down to what happens in The Game.
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