COLUMBUS, Ohio — Welcome to the Favorite Modern Football Buckeye, a 68-player bracket to determine your favorite Ohio State football player from 2001 to the present. If you didn’t listen to our Buckeye Talk Podcast explaining the concept and the seeding, here’s the breakdown. (Also, listen to the podcast, it’s pretty good.) • This covers the years from 2001 through 2019. So sorry Orlando Pace, Archie Griffin, Chris Spielman, Jack Tatum, Eddie George and many others. • It’s FAVORITE Buckeye. Not best. But in gathering the field, I used players who were captains, team MVPs and first-team All-Big Ten picks to make some tough choices. • The four regions are divided offense/defense and by era. One is Jim Tressel-Luke Fickell (2001-2011) and the other is Urban Meyer-Ryan Day (2012-2019). For shorthand, we will refer to them as Tressel and Meyer. So the regions are Tressel Offense, Tressel Defense, Meyer Offense…
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