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What Will Arthur Smith Change at Ohio State? Buckeyes Offense Breakdown

Menace2Sports with Zach Smith

Menace 2 Sports with Zach Smith

Football, Sports

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State football is entering a new offensive era with Arthur Smith taking over as offensive coordinator. What changes will Smith bring to the Buckeyes' offense — and how different will it look under Ryan Day?

Today, we go LIVE to break down Arthur Smith's offensive philosophy, how his NFL background could reshape Ohio State's scheme, and what Buckeye fans should expect this season.

We'll cover LIVE:
🌰 Arthur Smith's offensive system and tendencies
🌰 How Ohio State's play calling may change
🌰 Impact on the QB, RB, and WR rooms
🌰 Run game vs pass game balance
🌰 Tempo, formations, and red zone strategy
🌰 What this means for Ohio State's CFP hopes

Join the live chat, share your thoughts, and let's discuss whether Arthur Smith is the right fit to elevate Ohio State's offense.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It is January 29th, where we got two, three days left, including today in the month of January.

0:08.0

And then it's the month of love, Valentine's Day, Valentine's month.

0:12.7

Shit, it's my birthday month.

0:13.9

And Chris, I don't know if you know, it's also Black History Month.

0:17.8

Yes.

0:18.4

No, no, I trust me, I am the most aware of all of the black celebratory months.

0:26.4

What's up, we have some, we have some off-season topics.

0:29.2

You know, it's that time of year where you're really, you know, trying to dive into what's

0:32.9

going on in these programs.

0:34.6

And it's funny, I was listening to somebody.

0:37.4

I can't remember who was talking about it. It might have been urban. Somebody, it was on my timeline just about how this is like, roll your sleeves up and like get knee deep in the shit coaching and development, right? Okay. Recruiting is done. I mean, almost done. They'll be off the road after this week, I think. And you go into February and it's like, it's you and the team. There's no reporters, no media availability. There's no practices. You have nowhere to go, nothing to do. I mean, you got to get kind of get spring ball ready. I guess, you know, Arthur Smith coming in. You're going to have to meet as an offensive staff to kind of get on the same page on some shit, develop what you're going to do on offense. But the month of February, man, it's, it's just a month of grinding, grinding players in the weight room, doing drills, team agilities, all kinds of shit. And it's, it's one of the best months.

1:28.6

Because you think about the calendar of Chris and how it goes.

1:31.5

I mean, obviously two days in season is that's like fucking filet and surf.

1:36.7

It's surfing turf with a fine cuisine dessert.

1:40.0

But other than that, when do you really get knee deep in just developing players?

1:46.6

I mean, you have a plan to do it in training camp, but you're still trying to be ready to beat people, to win, right?

1:53.0

It's really, this is when you get physically developed.

1:55.8

And then spring ball is where you get football developed.

1:57.8

And so I'm excited.

1:58.7

It's going to be a fun, fun little run here to see

2:00.9

how 2026 will shake out. But anyways, it is, what day is it Thursday? It's Thursday, thirsty Thursday. My days are gone. How the hell's your week been? How's, how's Snowmageddon? Dude, it's good. I'm still, I'm still just in the house. But we're starting around at a food, man. so I've been doing a lot of a lot of ramen and eggs. Food's running low here, dude. No, it definitely is. That's literally we have eggs and we had some, we have bread and English muffins. And it's like, all right, you want an egg sandwich? You want an eggs and toast? Like, what are we thinking here? I looked at just thing. I was i was like we probably should go to the store i need to go to the store at some point um no i'll go to well actually my mom's probably going to go today it's my little brother's birthday today so she's probably going to go get stuff for a cake so she'll go out and well she's out she'll go get stuff for the house so it's a perfect little replenishment um but dude, I'm good. It's a good week.

2:51.7

I've stayed warm.

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