Buckeye Recap: 10/23/2026

Asked for an update on Julian Sayin:
"we're not going to put um any timeline on his recovery, but but he is out indefinitely."

On Luke Fahey:
"we're always looking for for quarterbacks who are just obsessed with being great."

On Luke Fahey and Tavien St. Clair stepping up:
"a coach can always say you're one snap away until it's real and it's it's real now."

On what he has learned about this team after the Indiana win:
"we've learned more about this group than maybe we have at this point in years past."

On the plan for Luke Fahey and Tavien St. Clair:
"these guys are both going to get a lot of reps. And you know, we're going to start to put together a plan on how we're going to move forward" On who will start at quarterback: "we're going to play the guy that gives us the best chance to win."

On what the defense does with a bye week:
"bye-weeks are tricky because you always feel that the teams that are playing are in rhythm and they're getting better because they're out there competing"

On the quarterback room without Julian Sayin:
"You're not asking them to be Julian. You're asking them to be themselves."

On building rapport with Luke Fahey:
"We got to get together, especially we got a bye week this week, so we got time, um, about 2 weeks till we play a game."

Asked what the win at Indiana says about who this team is:
"We know it's gonna take, we knew it was gonna take, you know, great focus, um, to come in here and win this game for 60 minutes straight"

On what the win at Indiana meant:
"I feel like it was a defining moment for us."

On what he sees in Luke Fahey:
"he's got a certain moxie about him as a quarterback. When you have a moxie about you and you just have a confidence about yourself to go out there and play like he does"

Quarterback Julian Sayin, hurt in the fourth quarter at Indiana, is out indefinitely, Ryan Day said Tuesday. Day said Ohio State is putting together a plan for Sayin not being available for the regular season or the postseason.

Freshman cornerback Jay Timmons was named the Shaun Alexander National Freshman of the Week, Ohio State announced. He was also named the Big Ten, 247Sports and On3 freshman of the week after seven tackles, two pass breakups and a forced fumble at Indiana.

Ohio State announced that Jeremiah Smith was placed on the first team of the On3 and The Athletic midseason All-America teams, and that Jaylen McClain earned second-team honors from both. Luke Montgomery made On3's second team. Smith was also named a Sporting News midseason All-American, the fourth outlet to name him one in the last week, Ohio State said.

Ohio State announced that offensive lineman Carson Hinzman is a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy. The winner will be announced Dec. 8 at the National Football Foundation's awards dinner in Las Vegas.

Who starts at quarterback.
Ohio State has not named a starter for USC. Day said Tuesday that Luke Fahey had been ahead of Tavien St. Clair going into Indiana and that Day will make the final decision heading into next week.

Jeremiah Smith's record chase.
Smith has 39 career touchdown catches, tied with Braylon Edwards of Michigan for the most in Big Ten history. Ohio State has no Big Ten game until USC. Smith has 215 career catches and 3,542 career receiving yards, both Ohio State records.

Jeremiah Smith's season against DeVonta Smith's Heisman year.
Jeremiah Smith has 52 catches, 984 yards and 12 touchdowns through seven games, an average of 7.4 catches, 140.6 yards and 1.7 touchdowns per game and 18.9 yards per catch. Through his first seven games in 2020, DeVonta Smith had 65 catches, 903 yards and 10 touchdowns, an average of 9.3 catches, 129.0 yards and 1.4 touchdowns per game and 13.9 yards per catch.

Over his final six games, DeVonta Smith totaled 52 catches, 953 yards and 13 touchdowns — averages of 8.7 catches, 158.8 yards and 2.2 touchdowns per game. He finished his Heisman-winning season with 117 catches, 1,856 yards and 23 touchdowns across 13 games, averaging 9.0 catches, 142.8 yards and 1.8 touchdowns per game. Jeremiah Smith's current 140.6 yards per game is just 2.2 yards below DeVonta Smith's full-season average of 142.8.

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