Which recruits could Ohio State flip by Signing Day?

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Flip season has arrived in college football recruiting, and Ohio State is active. With Signing Day two months away, OSU has turned its energy in the 2026 class toward adding a few more names to a top 10 class, even if those names have already committed elsewhere. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Andrew Gillis dive into those names and what flipping them would mean and why doing so is so important. 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 is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you've been,
0:17.1	Buckeye talk is about to begin.
0:20.5	Hey, hey, hey, come on in. Ben, Buckeye Talk is about to begin.
0:24.8	Hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:33.3	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
0:36.9	I'm Stephen Means, and that is Andrew Gillis, and this is a Tuesday recruiting pod.
0:55.1	It's been a while since we've done one of these. In this season, it's a little difficult because it's so much going on, and Ohio say the way they handle a lot of their recruiting. It's just not as, I don't know, it's not the most important thing going on when they're trying to win a national championship. But recruiting does never stop. So when there's things that are happening,
1:00.6	we have to talk about those things. And I guess off the top, Andrew, it's flip watch season, right?
1:05.8	We've entered that portion of the year where kids took visits all June. They made decisions in July. And then two and a half months later, they go, eh, I don't think I made the right
1:10.5	decision for a lot of different reasons, right? It can be because maybe a better situation popped And then two and a half months later, they go, eh, I don't think I made the right decision.
1:11.2	For a lot of different reasons, right?
1:12.4	It can be because maybe a better situation popped up.
1:15.3	Sometimes you're negotiating and a better, you know, Dio popped up somewhere else.
1:19.8	There's a million different reasons as to why, literally, both figuratively and literally.
1:23.8	And every other way, Italy that there is.
1:27.5	It's flip-watch season in State's already lost one player over the last couple of weeks here,
1:33.0	and that's Corbyn Fordham, who flipped to Florida State, which I understand that his father played at Forest State.
1:40.6	So this is a kid who is essentially flipping to go home to some aspect. What's the impact
1:46.8	of losing Corbyn Fordham in Ohio State's 2026 recruiting class? And are there plans in place to
1:53.4	potentially replace him? Yeah, this is an interesting one. So like you mentioned, Corbyn Fordham,
1:59.3	he committed to Ohio State like a year ago.
2:03.1	You know, this was a pretty kind of cut and dry. I think it was Thanksgiving. This is the second
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