Ohio State’s excellence in 2025 is likely to lead to major programs or even some NFL teams poaching Ryan Day’s

Urban Meyer recently publicly endorsed Brian Hartline, the offensive coordinator at Ohio State Buckeyes, as a candidate ready to lead. “I’m a big Brian Hartline fan, always have been… he just needed the experience,

But according to BetOnline, a new favorite has risen to the top with odds of +140 to be named the next head coach at Penn State: Ohio State offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach Brian Hartline.

Once a Buckeye wide receiver himself from 2005 to ’08, Brian Hartline has worked with the Ohio State football program since 2017—two years after retiring from the NFL. The now-38-year-old has worked his way up the ranks from a quality control assistant to wide receivers coach, before adding full offensive coordinator duties to his role in ’23.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day seemed most pleased with a Sayin rollout to the right that resulted in a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Christian Bennett. The Buckeyes faced third-and-1, but instead of trying to pound it in for six Sayin faked a handoff and fired a strike to Bennett crossing near the end line. Nice.

On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means takes rants from the Subtext subscribers on a wide range of subjects, from Jeremiah Smith’s usage, OSU’s struggling run game and Brian Hartline as a playcaller.

Hartline, a former NFL wide receiver with seven seasons of playing experience with the Miami Dolphins and Cleveland Browns, returned to his alma mater in 2017 while Meyer was still Ohio State's coach. He started as a quality control assistant and has steadily risen up the ranks in Columbus in the years since.

The Ohio State Buckeyes were faced with a real problem last season after winning the College Football Playoff. The reality was that the Buckeyes were going to have to replace both their offensive and defensive coordinators.

It seems like whenever a big-time college football job comes open, former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer sees his name lobbed about as a potential candidate. No matter that Meyer has now been removed from the college game for seven years now, and has a pretty cushy job with Fox's Big Noon College Football crew.

Cleveland.com's Stephan Krajisnik believes Brian Hartline's departure wouldn't be the end of Ohio State as WRU.