• Clemson offered Dallis Todd & Tyler Luatua
• Tennessee offered Rahshaun Smith
• Denzel Ware decommits from Florida State
• @Derek11W Dontre Wilson's coach has informed me to expect a 9 pm central time announcement tomorrow for his star athlete. #Buckeyes #Ducks #Texas

ESPN $ - 4-star WR Clark talks Florida visit '13 FL WR James Clark

• Enjoyed his Florida visit and they should be in the top 3 he announces tomorrow. College decision is scheduled for 9am on Wednesday (NSD).

ESPN $ - After UT trip, decision soon for Wilson '13 TX RB Dontre Wilson

• Texas visit is over and he is ready to make a decision sooner than later (maybe tomorrow) according to his father.

ESPN $ - Ohio State offers big juco OT for 2014 '14 JUCO OT Chad Mavety

• Says Ohio State is a big offer & it motivates him to live up to the hype. Was a third-team All-Northeast Football Conference selection last season. 

Scout $ - Bell's phone still ringing '13 GA DB Vonn Bell

• Vonn says he has talked to all three coaching staffs this weekend. Hasn't made up his mind yet, but will have a decision by Wednesday morning. Says his relationship with the coaching staff is the biggest factor in his decision.

Recruiting trails lead to football-crazed Ohio

Jayme Thompson grew up a product of his basketball-mad environment.

In Washington, where he lived with his mother through the eighth grade, Thompson said he played "all day, every day." So did most of his friends, who hoped to be the next hoops stars in a city overflowing with them. This season, five D.C.-area schools have appeared in ESPN's top 25 prep basketball poll.

"You see the football fields those guys play on in the D.C. area, it's really bad," said Thompson, who became a standout guard for his middle school basketball team. "Nobody really cares. But the basketball gyms for the top programs are great. I was always playing."

Then he moved to Ohio.

Today, the Central Catholic senior is among the nation’s top football recruits — a result nudged in part by the changing culture around him.

While the South’s growing monopoly of elite high school football prospects threatens the long-term viability of the Big Ten, Ohio remains a striking holdout to the trend. A state where football is the religion that transcends denomination remains the last one in the conference’s traditional geographic footprint to produce Division I recruits at a per-capita rate above the national average.

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Ohio State Football Recruiting: Positional Breakdown of Buckeyes' New Class

With 23 new recruits already committed to play for Ohio State next season and a couple more who might join the team on national signing day, the future of Ohio State football is looking as bright as ever.

Urban Meyer hit the recruiting trail hard in preparation for a successful run with the Buckeyes. His team’s 12-0 season in 2012 laid the ground work, but it’s Meyer’s track record that has some of the nation’s best high school players ready to take on the Big Ten next season.

Meyer did a terrific job recruiting prospects from all over the country. Ohio State secured commitments from 13 players from outside Ohio, including cornerback Eli Apple (96 rating from 247Sports) and 4-star linebackers Trey Johnson and Mike Mitchell.

While not every new commit will see much action on Saturdays next season, this class will be a solid foundation on which the Buckeyes can build. We’ll take a look at this year’s recruiting class, position by position.

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Ohio State Recruiting: Updates on Ezekiel Elliott, Dontre Wilson and More

It’s no surprise that Urban Meyer is all over the signing day news ticker, but he may do more harm than good for this 2013 Ohio State recruiting class.

Meyer is making moves to shore up his newest class, going for his targeted recruits while making time to talk to “commits” at other schools.

That practice may backfire for Meyer, though, because his recruits are not sticking around if they don’t continue to get attention.

Two commits have already been in the news for potentially flipping their decision from Ohio State. Whether it’s true or not, the situation in Columbus is one to watch heading into signing day.

Here's the latest news out of Buckeye land.

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J.T. Barrett: 2013 Ohio State football player profiles

We soldier on with yet another installment of Bucks to the Future, the fourth overall in our series profiling the best Ohio State Buckeyes of tomorrow. Today's focus comes in the form of consensus 4-star signal caller, J.T. Barrett. Barrett was thought to be talented enough to potentially see action (well, in garbage time at the least) this coming fall, until one play changed everything his senior year. But even though the Wichita Falls, Texas product is unlikely to see the gridiron during the 2013 calendar year, that doesn't mean his impact with the team isn't already being felt.

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