meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

9 important targets in Ohio State's 2027 recruiting class

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Andrew Gillis discuss Ohio State's 2027 recruiting class. The two break down the nine most important targets as OSU heads into the offseason and recruiting moves to the forefront. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Getting instant insights is amazing.

0:03.0

But if there are too many data points, it can be hard to see what works.

0:07.0

So I'll ask my AI assistant for recommendations.

0:11.0

And with PDF spaces in Acrobat Studio,

0:14.0

it's easy to remix documents and transform insights into standout content,

0:19.0

so you can go from idea to creation in record time all

0:22.5

within an AI powered workflow do that with acrobat learn more and try it out on

0:28.5

adobe.com Hey, hey, where you've been, the Buckeye talk is about to begin.

0:50.3

Hey, hey, hey, come on then.

0:55.0

Welcome back to Puckkeye Talk. I'm Steven Means and that's Andrew Gillis, and this is your Tuesday

1:07.0

recruiting pod. We haven't talked recruiting for a while because everything under the sun

1:11.0

has been happening around the Ohio State football program. But now I can put its full focus

1:15.2

into its 2027 recruiting class right now. Nine commits to five star recruits. This is number

1:21.2

three class in the country and the number one class in the 2027, Big Ten rankings. These are the nine players, nine targets, nine recruits,

1:31.1

who are the most important names to know as Ohio State heads into the spring in the summer

1:35.5

months and continues to put together a class that's already at nine. I don't know if this is

1:40.1

a third of the way done or a half of the way done or 75% done, I guess we'll find out

1:46.7

right along the way, Andrew. But regardless, recruiting never stops, even if the definition

1:51.9

of what a recruiting class could look like maybe is actively changing. As Ohio State maybe

1:56.8

kind of reshapes how they go about building its rosters on a given year. Yep.

2:06.3

It's one of those things where it's it is a moving target. It is a we don't quite know what's going to happen because I'm not sure they have a set

2:13.0

plan of what they want 2026 December to look like because who knows, you know, maybe we've reached a

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from cleveland.com, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of cleveland.com and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.