Thank you to everyone who reached out with kind words and prayers.
For context that was missing yesterday, we had to bring my mom to the hospital yesterday morning, but I'm happy to report that she's doing much better now.
Maybe I should celebrate with an ice bath. It seems like the thing to do.
just chillin pic.twitter.com/jvhS7UtEDn
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) August 4, 2021
Word of the Day: Jocular.
VEGAS KNOWS? It looks like Vegas might be more confident in predicting Ohio State's starter than Ryan Day.
Cause while the Buckeye Boss won't be making a decision for probably a couple of weeks, the sportsbooks have a pretty clear favorite.
Betting odds for Ohio State's QB competition, per https://t.co/qUcK5KU7A5:
— Ben Axelrod (@BenAxelrod) August 4, 2021
C.J. Stroud -300
Kyle McCord +240
Quinn Ewers +325
Jack Miller +1600
To be clear, these odds are for the quarterback who starts for the Buckeyes in the season opener, which makes any bet on Quinn Ewers an act of charity to your local sportsbook. I wouldn't take that bet even if you put a couple of zeros on the end of those odds.
My unsolicited advice: C.J. Stroud may be the heavy favorite here, but it's nowhere near heavy enough to scare me away. -300 is a value bet for how confident I am that he'll be the starter in Minnesota.
CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON. Because I love a good hypothetical, here's one for you to ponder on this fine Thursday.
This. Is. Tough. pic.twitter.com/dirC8TGGQZ
— Ohio State on BTN (@OhioStateOnBTN) August 4, 2021
To be honest, I don't think this really is all that tough because the best quarterback is pretty clearly Justin Fields.
He might not have late-game heroics under his belt, but that's just because he was so damn good that he was only in that position once in his two-year career and he threw an interception instead of a game-winning touchdown because his receiver broke off his route.
The real fun comes when you try to rank the next four, though Cardale Jones is willing to help us out a little bit there, too.
Everyone then me, #GoBucks https://t.co/xTVnkhX9Mo
— Cardale Jones (@CJ1two) August 4, 2021
Personally, I go Justin Fields, Dwayne Haskins, Braxton Miller, J.T. Barrett, and then Cardale Jones, in that order. Please tell me how correct I am in the comments.
10-TIME CHAMP. By now y'all should be used to Buckeye dominance across pretty much anything and everything, so you'll probably be decidedly unshocked to learn that an Ohio State alum is shredding everybody in Jeopardy! right now.
Matt Amodio, who has a degree in mathematics from Ohio State, won his 10th-straight game and has raked in a total of $362,400 in winnings.
That big payday makes an impressive 10-day total of $362,400 for Matt Amodio! pic.twitter.com/dCXcUUHf1d
— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) August 4, 2021
My guy's doing to Jeopardy! what the Buckeyes have been doing to the Big Ten in football for like two decades. Respect.
BUCKEYE VS. BUCKEYE. Wyatt Davis and Tuf Borland are out here giving Buckeye on Buckeye crime a fairly literal meaning.
OSU FIGHT!! Wyatt Davis throws a punch at Tuf Borland.
— Luke Braun (@LukeBraunNFL) August 4, 2021
No disrespect to the fellow literally named Tuf, but I'm uh, gonna put my money on the 6-foot-4, 326-pound gentleman in this physical altercation.
SONG OF THE DAY. "Why Georgia" by John Mayer.
NOT STICKING TO SPORTS. The surprising benefits of talking to strangers... The true-crime junkies and the curious case of a missing husband... The speedboat racing duo who flooded America with cocaine... An off-grid 81-year-old man is jailed for refusing to vacate his cabin of 27 years...
