This Week in Twitter: #TransferPortalSZN, QB1 in the Big Apple, a Buzzer Beater, Coach Prime is Him and E.J. Liddell Turned Himself Into a Meme

By 11W Staff on December 10, 2022 at 2:35 pm
Tanner Holden celebrates his buzzer-beater three-pointer to beat Rutgers.
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This Week in Twitter is a look at some of the week's best and most entertaining tweets from Buckeyeland and beyond.

In the time it takes you to read this, five more players likely entered the Transfer Portal. No –seriously. College football free agency is here, and it was all over Twitter over the past week. Remember that Oprah Winfrey meme: “You get a car and you get a car and you get a car”? Imagine that, but just being a bunch of transfer portal announcements.

Honestly, though, shoutout to each and every college football coaching staff across the country like Ryan Day and company who are not only currently on the road visiting high school prospects, but also doing their best to keep the players who are on their respective teams, too. And, in Ohio State's case, doing all of this while also preparing for the College Football Playoff.

When Utah beat USC last Friday night, Utes coach Kyle Whittingham said “you're welcome, Ryan Day,” knowing that it probably would have (and did) allow Ohio State to be one of four teams to make the College Football Playoff. While the PAC-12 Championship Game was the most-watched game in its history due to so many eyeballs in Columbus tuning in, Ohio State was certainly grateful for what Utah did.

Former Buckeye Chimdi Chekwa and Bryant Browning even went as far as singing Utah's fight song. Well done, fellas.

C.J. Stroud is one of four Heisman Trophy Finalists – the first two-time finalist in Ohio State history. A special talent, one would say.

QB1 is in New York ahead of Saturday night's Heisman Trophy ceremony. Stroud appears to be literally everywhere in the Big Apple.

One can never have too many (good) memes, right? Does anyone need a new one? E.J. Liddell has you covered.

Buzzer-beaters are fun. A Buzzer-beating three-pointer when the Buckeyes are down two is even better. What a shot by Tanner Holden to beat Rutgers Thursday night.

Ohio State's creative team asked for a bunch of different angles from fans of the buzzer-beating three-pointer. They seemed to have gotten a bunch and put them all into a tremendous video. You can never have too many game-winning videos or angles of said shot, right?

Cardale Jones might not play school, but 12 Gauge certainly played football and is pretty good at this thing we call Twitter as well. When the national championship quarterback speaks (tweets?), everyone must listen, including a Michigan grad.

We've already covered it quite a bit throughout the week, but Jaxon Smith-Njigba basically missing the whole season truly does suck. What could have been and the “what ifs” are all we have in the end. JSN could have been the best wide receiver in the country this season. Just imagine an offense that featured a healthy JSN, Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egbuka as its three wideouts.

In case you legitimately haven't been on Twitter, over 1,000 players entered their names into the Transfer Portal on Monday, the first day it opened. That's....a lot, folks. It's free agency, it truly is.

Over 1,500 players on the first day of the portal, to be exact. Insane.

Speaking of the portal. There have been hundreds (thousands?) of announcements on Twitter of players entering their name into "free agency". This will likely go down as the best one, at least so far.

Nothing but facts, Bobby.

Twelve players made PFF's Big Ten All-Offensive Team. Five are Buckeyes. Seems good.

I can't wrap my head around this one. It seems like there's no way it's true but it somehow is. Stetson Bennett turned 25 years old on October 28.

In not-so-breaking news, a lot of people watch Ohio State football. Buckeye Nation is truly the best (and biggest).

Mike Doss, College Football Hall of Famer has a nice ring to it.

J.K. Dobbins is a national treasure. All day, J.K., all day.

Some NIL deals are ridiculous. Others make complete sense and are awesome. This one is certainly the latter. Well done from both parties involved.

Coach Prime has already made Colorado football more relevant. His introductory press conference was glorious, his first team meeting with his players was immaculate and it seems as though he will have the Buffaloes back in the national spotlight sooner rather than later. Just wait until he starts winning games on the field, too.

Photoshop is truly incredible. This looks like a real, actual photo. Except it's not.

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