As Nico Iamaleava returns to Ohio State, the Buckeyes’ offense faces a familiar question

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The more things change, the more they stay the same for Ohio State’s offensive line.

Nearly a year after the Buckeyes’ dominant 42-17 playoff victory over Tennessee, the conversation around Ryan Day’s team feels eerily familiar. As Nico Iamaleava prepares to return to Columbus with UCLA, the Buckeye Talk podcast crew couldn’t help but notice the parallels between last season’s offensive line concerns and the ones plaguing the team today.

The irony that back then we were talking about the Ohio State offensive line and the question marks about it — and obviously we’re talking about it in the vein of can Tennessee take advantage of it, right — but here we are,“ co-host Stephen Means said. ”Nico’s coming back to Columbus, and yet here we are still talking about Ohio State’s