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Buckeye Talk emergency pod: What landing Caleb Downs in the transfer portal means to Ohio State football

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State just landed the best available player in the transfer portal and added him to a defense that was already trending toward being historical. The fight for Caleb once he left Alabama following Nick Saban's retirement came down to the Buckeyes and Georgia and heading into the end of the week it felt like the Bulldogs were in the lead. But then a few OSU coaches took a trip down to his home in Georgia to see the former five-star safety and did just enough to keep that from happening. Now a player it once finished second for on the recruiting trail, is finally calling Columbus his home. On this emergency episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Nathan Baird and Andrew Gillis discuss the impact of Caleb Downs' decision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, hey, hey, come on in. It's Friday night in Ohio State just pulled off a big one from the transfer portal.

1:30.6

Caleb Downs, the former five-star safety in the 20-23 class, turned five-star

1:34.3

player at Alabama, freshman All-American, one of the best players' safety in the country,

1:39.4

immediately went into the transfer portal after Nick Saban's decision to retire and it was by all

1:45.1

reports going to be a battle between Georgia where his position courts at Alabama is

1:49.6

now employed in Ohio State the team who felt like they were a runner-up to Alabama or him as a recruit.

1:56.2

And it felt like for most of the week, Georgia was trending.

2:00.1

And then Nathan, all reports came out on Friday evening that Caleb Downs is headed to Ohio State and said that we do know that Ohio State some of the coaches were down in Georgia visiting with Caleb Downs earlier this week.

2:13.0

I mean, I'm not going to ask you how big this is because clearly it's a big deal.

2:17.0

But the last time Ohio State pulled out a former five-star recruit heading

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