Ohio State is on its way to wrapping up their dominant season as the nation’s top-ranked team. The recruiting pipeline keeps churning out top-10 classes year after year, and Columbus remains one of the premier destinations for blue-chip prospects across the country. But there’s a wrinkle in the program’s recruiting operation that’s been nagging at the staff for years now, and it’s not something they can easily control.

While Ohio State general manager Mark Pantoni was coordinating visits for the Penn State game, he let slip what many in the program have been thinking. Their biggest recruiting weekends keep getting scheduled at the worst possible time. The culprit? FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff, which has become a weekly fixture for the Buckeyes since the show launched in 2019. Ohio State has

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