5 big college football concerns to address this offseason
More than a month after ending up the season with back-to-back losses, consisting of a convincing house loss to competing Michigan and a 42-41 loss to eventual national champ Georgia in the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl, Ohio State coach Ryan Day conceded both games still sting.
“You’re discussing one or two plays, one or two calls, which hurts, it does,” he said. “… When you get that close, and you don’t win the competition game, they sting, and certainly they wake you up in the early morning.”
Therefore it begins once again– the inspiration, the winter season workouts and eventually spring practices– with the intent to reassert themselves as the best in their league. The Buckeyes remain in excellent company, as heavyweights Alabama, Clemson and USC likewise have something to prove. What unfolds this fall will be an item of how specific concerns are addressed now.Here are 5 offseason concern that will have a direct impact on the 2023 season– the final season of a four-team College Football Playoff prior to it expands to 12 teams in 2024.