The Bill and Doug Show: Ohio State Football Talk

Ohio State will host Northwestern on Nov. 14 in the 10th regular season game for the Buckeyes. It'll be a return to Ohio Stadium for new Northwestern offensive coordinator Chip Kelly, who won a national title as Ohio State's offensive coordinator in 2024.  On this latest opponent preview on The Bill and Doug Show, Matthew Shelton of Wildcat Report in the On3 network shares his expertise on the Wil...

The NCAA changed its eligibility rules, ending the era of 6- and 7-year college football players, but opening everyone up to 5 full years of playing, with no more redshirts. On this Around the Shoe episode of The Bill and Doug Show, two great members of the Ohio State media join Bill Landis and Doug Lesmerises to discuss this switch.  It's Blake Biscardi and Marcus Hartman checking in on:  • Overa...

It's a college football draft of the best coordinator combos in the power four conferences, as Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis look at the best offensive-defensive mind melds in the nation. Honestly ... it was kind of hard to find 10 great combinations. This way of looking at things has a major impact on your view of the national title race. Where do Ohio State, Indiana, Notre Dame, Georgia, Miami...

Jett Harrison, a 5-star receiver in the Class of 2028 and the younger brother of Marvin Harrison Jr. has committed to Ohio State, and Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis are here to discuss it. What does this say about the job Cortez Hankton is doing as the replacement for Brian Hartline at receivers coach? What does this mean for the future of Ohio State receiver recruiting? And who's up for a 2028 O...

With the commitment of Top 50 recruit Marcus Fakatou, Ohio State has built an elite defensive line in its 2027 recruiting class, with another major addition potentially on the horizon.  In this episode, Bill Landis and Doug Lesmerises delve into the Buckeyes' strategy, how this D-line group compares to the Buckeyes' 2021 D-line crop, whether this is a trend or a one-year change, and how they would...

The preview of Ohio State football opponents marches on as The Bill and Doug Show gets to game No. 9 and Week 10 on Nov. 7 against the Oregon Ducks. The Buckeyes and Ducks are both in the top tier of national title contenders, and there are some things about Oregon -- including the idea of several veterans putting off the NFL to stay for one more season -- that reminds you of 2024. On this episode...

Around the Shoe is back talking five college football topics, but with a bit of a betting angle this week. Joining Bill Landis and Doug Lesmerises are one old friend and one new friend from TShoeIndex.com, as Tyler Shoemaker (old) and Zak Biggs (new) share their insight. Exciting news -- get ready for TShoe to be joining The Bill and Doug Show on a weekly basis in the fall. For now, the topics dis...

Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork met with reporters on Thursday morning, and The Bill and Doug Show is here to distill and discuss what Bjork said on two fronts. First, it's the big-picture look at the sport, Ohio State's need to look out for itself, where it might draw the line on Congress pushing things too far, and what the future of paying players looks like. Then it's a look at what is...

The latest Ohio State opponent preview takes The Bill and Doug Show to the eighth game of the season in Week 9, as the Buckeyes will be coming off their only off week. Following a roadtrip to Indiana and that break, Ohio State will head to the West Coast to visit the USC Trojans on Oct. 31.  Ryan Kartje of the Los Angeles Times joined Bill and Doug to discuss Riley's status; USC's No. 1 recruiting...

We are back talking five Ohio State football topics on Around the Shoe. Sorry we didn't have an episode last week. As always, Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis are joined by two outstanding media members. This time it's two hosts from The Ohio Podcast in Eric Boggs and Chris Wilds. The questions answered by Eric, Chris, Bill and Doug were:  • What's the biggest reason to be optimistic about Ohio Sta...

This episode is a look at which college football programs are best positioned to be winning two years from now. Adam Rittenberg wrote a story for ESPN.com last week ranking all 68 power conference teams two years out, and on this episode of The Bill and Doug Show, he joins Doug Lesmerises to debate the Top 10. Adam spent five months on his list, while Doug spent five minutes on his. So who is righ...

Ohio State vs. Indiana was a No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown in the Big Ten Championship game last season. The Hoosiers won and went on to a 16-0 season and the national title. The rematch will come in Week 7 in 2026 as the Buckeyes visit the Hoosiers in Memorial Stadium on Oct. 17. As part of their breakdown of every Ohio State regular-season game, Bill Landis and Doug Lesmerises tackled this matchup wi...

Around the Shoe is focusing on Ohio State recruiting this week, after the Buckeyes held the first of four day camps on Tuesday taht are bringing some of the best high school players in the country to Columbus. The Buckeyes will host three more day camps on Thursday; Tuesday, June 16; and Thursday June 18. Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis were both at Tuesday's camp, and were joined on this episode...

Next up in our preview of Ohio State's 2026 opponents is a week six game against Maryland. The Terrapins will come to Ohio Stadium on Oct. 10 between the Buckeyes' road trips to Iowa and Indiana. Does that make this a trap spot? Probably not. But Maryland has some exciting young talent that it's building around, and could get someone unexpected in the Big Ten this year. Ahmed Ghafir of Inside the...

Congress held hearings for the Protect College Sports Act on Wednesday, and Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis are here to talk about it. Seems like there is still a lot of posturing going on, as the Big Ten and SEC came out against the Act as written, opposed to parts of it. We're in the midst of the continued chaos around college sports, and maybe making some progress. But this Act may not be the a...

Our preview of Ohio State regular-season opponents is at Week 5 and the Buckeyes' visit to Iowa on Oct. 3. On this episode of The Bill and Doug Show, David Eickholt of HawkeyeInsider.com in the 247Sports Network joins Bill and Doug to break down the Hawkeyes. This will be Ohio State's first trip to Iowa City since the Hawkeyes upset Ohio State in 2017. This year, the Hawkeyes have a quarterback ba...

It's two new guests on Around the Shoe as current podcast hosts and former Ohio State players Bryant Browning and Chimdi Chekwa join Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis to discuss five topics on Ohio State and college football. Browning and Chekwa currently host Bleav in Buckeyes, but before that they played for Jim Tressel. So we asked them a Tressel question -- was the Tressel Era or Urban Meyer Era...

How does Big Ten depth actually stack up to SEC depth? On this edition of The Bill and Doug show, Bill Landis and Doug Lesmerises are joined by the great Adam Rittenberg of ESPN.com to break that down. Which league has better coaching? Which Big Ten team is most central to the depth argument? How did the Big Ten handle its spring meetings, which Adam attended? What was the message from SEC spring...

Illinois will visit Ohio State on Sept. 26 in the Big Ten opener for both teams in 2026, and Jeremy Werner of IlliniInquirer.com joined Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis on this episode to break down the Week 4 matchup. The Bill and Doug Show is running through the entire regular season schedule for the Buckeyes with videos and podcasts on this feed, and written breakdowns at their Substack at https...

It's five Ohio State football topics on Around the Shoe, as Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis are joined by two spectacular Ohio State media members in Tom Orr and Tony Gerdeman from the Buckeye Weekly Podcast.  Topics covered:  • 15 years after his resignation, what is Jim Tressel's legacy?  • Are we surprised Tressel became Ohio's lieutenant governor?  • In which area will Ohio State improve the m...

The Big Ten is holding spring meetings in Southern California, and unlike the past, actually publicizing what's going on there and pushing a point of view. Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis have been asking the Big Ten to fight harder against the SEC in the offseason and it's finally happening. In this episode of The Bill and Doug Show, the guys talk about the Big Ten's new push, how an expanded pla...

Kent State will visit Ohio State for a Week 3 matchup in Ohio Stadium on Sept. 19. To preview that matchup, The Bill and Doug Show went right to the source and welcomed Kent State head coach Mark Carney to the show. Carney took over the Golden Flashes a year ago as the interim head coach and led them to a 5-7 record that he thinks maybe should have been more like 7-5. That job, after Kent State wa...

Ohio State football unveiled a bunch of uniform and field information last week, and on this episode of Around the Shoe on The Bill and Doug Show, it's time to break it all down.  Joining Bill Landis and Doug Lesmerises are two great members of the media from Eleven Warriors:  • Chase Brown  • Josh Poloha  The topics discussed: • Describe the return of the gray/silver Heritage shoulder stripe  • H...

College football has a ton of veteran quarterbacks for 2026, with playoff contenders from Ohio State to Texas to Notre Dame to Georgia to Oregon to USC to Penn State to LSU to Miami led by veteran signal callers. On this episode of The Bill and Doug Show, Matt Fortuna of insidezonemf.com and The Independent podcast on Notre Dame joins Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis to draft the 15 best power conf...

It's Week 2 of our Ohio State schedule preview for 2026. That means looking at the Buckeyes' trip to Texas on Sept. 12 to take on the Longhorns.  To give us insight into the Longhorns, beat writer Danny Davis of www.statesman.com and The Austin American-Statesman joined The Bill and Doug Show. From quarterback Arch Manning to receiver Cam Coleman to defensive end Colin Simmons to two new running b...