For Ohio State followers clamoring for extra evening video games in The Shoe, they’re getting a 3rd evening recreation this season Saturday evening when the Buckeyes host UCLA. This can be a uncommon matchup, however it would turn out to be extra widespread with convention realignment and the Bruins becoming a member of the Huge Ten.
There are numbers to again up how a lot of a home-field advantae the Buckeyes have in dwelling evening video games, and we are going to check out them on this week’s “By The Numbers.”
Ohio State has performed 5 dwelling evening video games within the month of November and the workforce is 5-0 in these video games, profitable by a median of 34.2 factors per recreation. The opponents: Illinois (2014), Minnesota (2015), Nebraska (2016), Rutgers (2020) and Michigan State (2023).
Ohio State is 27-5 all-time in evening video games at Ohio Stadium and 86-30 in all evening video games.
In six-plus seasons with Ryan Day as their head coach, the Buckeyes are 25-4 all-time in evening video games, together with a 12-0 mark at Ohio Stadium.
The 2025 season is the third time for Ohio State to play three evening video games in a season, after beforehand having three such video games in 2014 and 2022. Ohio State has performed Ohio and Minnesota at evening this 12 months.
It took Jeremiah Smith simply 25 video games to catch 25 landing passes, breaking the earlier document held by David Boston at 30 video games. Smith additionally caught a career-high 10 passes at Purdue.
He ranks within the high seven within the nation in 5 statistical classes, rating second in touchdowns (10), sixth in receptions (65), sixth in yards (862) and fifth in ypg (95.8).
When Julian Sayin threw an interception at Purdue this previous weekend, it snapped a streak of 173 go makes an attempt with out an interception. It was Sayin’s first interception in Huge Ten play, and his first for the reason that Buckeyes’ win over Ohio in Week 3.
Sayin is coming off his sixth 300-yard passing recreation of the season vs. Purdue and his fifth recreation finishing at the very least 80 % of his passes.
Sayin is one in every of two quarterbacks within the final 30 years (Geno Smith at West Virginia in 2012) to have three video games with at the very least 300 yards passing, three touchdowns, no interceptions and an 80% completion share.
As well as, Sayin has accomplished at the very least 85 % of his passes (min. 10 makes an attempt) in 4 totally different video games (vs. Grambling, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Penn State), an Ohio State document and one thing that had solely been accomplished at Ohio State 14 occasions earlier than.
That is the primary time the Buckeyes and Bruins are assembly since 2001. The final time they performed, the sport was postponed every week as a result of 9/11. Jim Tressel was in simply his second recreation because the Buckeyes’ head coach.
Apparently, the collection is tied 4-4-1. Neither workforce has received consecutive video games within the collection.
In line with Huge Ten Community Analysis, UCLA is simply the third Huge Ten workforce all-time to lose its first 4 video games after which win its subsequent three, becoming a member of 1963 Indiana and 2001 Penn State. The one energy convention groups to take action within the BCS/CFP period are 2001 Penn State, 2021 Florida State, and 2025 UCLA.
UCLA’s win over then-No. 7 Penn State was its first win over an AP High 10 workforce since Sept. 24, 2010.
