When Ohio State battles Notre Dame on Monday, the Buckeyes will play for their ninth national title. As a die-hard football fan, you probably already knew that number. But will you know these?
In 2023-24, 489 of Ohio State’s 1,021 student-athletes were named Academic All-Big Ten honorees — the most of any school in the conference.
Two Ohio State icons celebrate their 60th anniversaries this year.
In 1965, "Hang on Sloopy" became a Buckeye marching band signature song. And Brutus became, well, The Buckeye.
Those Buckeye leaf helmet stickers? They have been awarded to players for big plays for 58 years. Trainer Ernie Biggs brought the idea to Coach Woody Hayes in 1967. Woody ran with it.
The college football world celebrated the 50th anniversary of Archie Griffin’s first Heisman Trophy in 1974. No. 45 was honored with statues outside of the Rose Bowl and Ohio Stadium.
Two dozen incoming, current and former Ohio State student-athletes competed in the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris, taking home five medals.
Buckeyes earned 12 national championships in 2023-24: five team titles and seven individual trophies. That included women's ice hockey, which claimed its second title in three seasons.
After autumn semester, this was the average GPA of all Ohio State student-athletes.
Ohio State's football team is one of only two Division I programs to have a perfect Academic Progress Rate, which tracks student-athletes' academic eligibility, retention and graduation rates.
The other is Harvard.