Roster breakdown

Ohio State's roster is built almost entirely on high-school recruiting, with 70% of 87 matched players carrying blue-chip status at an average of 3.8★ — compared to Maryland's 17% at 3.18★ — making this a talent-construction gap that scheme alone won't close. They're actually slightly less experienced than us on average (1.65 years vs. our 1.91), but they compensate with 50% upperclassmen to our 43%, and their transfer composition is a black box since the site publishes no prior schools. Offensively they're in strong shape to carry over production — 96% of pass yards and 71% of rush yards return — numbers nearly identical to ours, so this isn't a unit in transition. Two DMV guys to know: Bing at safety and Moore at DT, and with 33% of the roster — all seniors and grad students — walking out the door after this season, that attrition cliff is the one structural vulnerability worth monitoring.