May 9—COLUMBUS — While the number of college football players transferring across the country has exploded in recent years, Ohio State largely avoided the trend. Until this year. More than a dozen scholarship players have left the program to play elsewhere since last December, a figure that might not be out-of-step with college football at large but is much larger than the first three offseasons of Ryan Day’s tenure as head coach. “I think it’s a little bit of a combination of COVID and that extra year being mixed in,” Day said. There is no disputing the pandemic wreaked havoc on the sport in multiple ways, wiping out most of spring practice in 2020 and shortening both the preseason and the regular season for the Buckeyes that year. It changed the offseason workout schedule drastically, and threw off the acclimatization process of the class of 2020. Recruiting was also turned…
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