Kyle McCord takes the spotlight as Ohio State’s starting quarterback as the Buckeyes open their road-heavy 2023 schedule with a conference game at Indiana on Saturday.
After eight months of preparation that culminated with 25 preseason practices over the month, the Buckeyes are hungry to play football against someone other than themselves and begin showing the world what they are capable of this season.
McCord performed well in that start, completing 13 of 18 passing attempts for 319 yards and two touchdowns with one interception in his collegiate debut, but the stakes will be higher this time around. While Indiana’s pass defense isn’t expected to be stout – the Hoosiers ranked 120th in the FBS in passing yards allowed per game last year, and they have an inexperienced secondary – it’s still a Big Ten opponent.
The most important task for Ohio State on Saturday is to simply win the game, and Day can’t allow an ongoing quarterback competition to get in the way of that. But every pass McCord and Brown throw on Saturday will be evaluated as McCord looks to prove he should be Ohio State’s starter all year long while Brown will look to give the Buckeyes reason to keep the competition going.
With a schedule that includes away games against Notre Dame, Wisconsin and Michigan this season, though, Saturday’s game will give the Buckeyes a first taste of playing on the road in a year where they’ll need to be able to perform well away from home. The Buckeyes are embracing the challenge. The bigger-picture question for the Hoosiers is whether their transfer additions will make them more competitive after back-to-back losing seasons in which they won just six combined games. While Indiana was one of the feel-good stories of the 2020 season when it went 6-2 and Tom Allen was named the AFCA Coach of the Year, that momentum has been drained out of the program over the past two years, putting Allen on the hot seat entering 2023.
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