Ohio State football: Are the Buckeyes the new QBU?

Gaining Quinn Ewers will really help take Ohio State football’s quarterback room over the top.

Maybe Ohio State football is ready to finally stake its claim as the next QBU?

Okay, let’s chill out for one hot second. Ohio State has one first-round draft pick from the quarterback position this century in Dwayne Haskins, though Justin Fields will be off the board No. 2 overall in 2021. However, the addition of top quarterback prospect Quinn Ewers in the 2022 recruiting class will give Ryan Day one heck of a quarterback room in a few seasons.

Ohio State is not ready to be QBU yet, but is doing some impressive work of late

If we want to give the distinction of who currently holds the title of QBU, you can pick one of these three Power 5 teams: The Alabama Crimson Tide, the Clemson Tigers and the Oklahoma Sooners. Personally, I would go with Oklahoma for that honor, as the Sooners routinely send their starting quarterback to the Heisman Trophy ceremony. He usually wins it and he usually gets drafted high.

However, if you want to say Alabama or Clemson hold that honor today, surely, you have evidence to back up your claim. But if we are projecting to a new potential entrant by say 2023, yeah, why not Ohio State? Though Haskins may wash out of the NFL by then, Fields will be starring on Sundays. Either Ewers, C.J. Stroud or Kyle McCord will be winning Big Ten titles in Indianapolis.

Stroud is a four-star recruit in the 2020 class out of Rancho Cucamonga, California. He projects as the Week 1 starter for the Buckeyes next season after Fields turns pro. McCord is a five-star recruit out of Philadelphia. He will challenge Stroud for playing time right away in 2021, assuming this upcoming offseason is considerably less tumultuous than last year’s. Then, there is Ewers.

Long gone are the days of college teams taking a quarterback two years apart with the hopes the junior will mentor the freshman, the senior the sophomore and so on in perpetuity. College football has never been more competitive than it is today. Ewers could have had a cake walk towards the Texas Longhorns starting gig, but he clearly wants to contend for a national title.

So is Ohio State the new QBU? Not even close. However, the Buckeyes are laying the foundation to potentially be in the mix for it by 2023, maybe even 2022 by the earliest. Ultimately, the Buckeyes are recruiting at the quarterback position on par with the teams they will likely face in the College Football Playoff for years to come. Winning is everything, but talent helps in that department.

Ewers, McCord and Stroud will be the reasons Ohio State potentially becomes QBU in a few years.

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