Tracking the 22 best Ohio State Buckeyes through the 2025 college football season

Following the rankings and the discussion as our thinking evolved

Jeremiah Smith is always in the mix when it comes to discussing the No. 1 spot on the best Buckeyes list. (Photo courtesy of Ohio State)

COLUMBUS — Who are Ohio State’s best players? This is a question we’ve been trying to answer several times a season for the last few years, and we want you to be able to track it.

We covered these evolving opinions on a long podcast five times during the 2025 season, because we think tracking our thinking — and how much it did and didn’t change — was a valuable way to analyze the team.

We put every show here, with the full Top 22 list for each of our five rankings. That’s at the end of this post, so you can reference it whenever you want, but you can also avoid it if you want to consume the shows first.

Thanks as always for being here.

Postseason show

Dec. 17 show

Nov. 5 show

Oct. 1 show

Preseason show