CHICAGO — Ohio State will be without eight players as they take on Northwestern on Saturday.
The Buckeyes are in Chicago to take on the Wildcats at Wrigley Field. Kickoff is at noon.
See the full unavailable list below:
Questionable:
N/A
Out:
Kacmarek, Will
Melton, Mitchell
Michalski, Zen
Scott, Aaron
Simpson-Hunt, Calvin
Stocksdale, Reis
Caffey, Timothy (season)
Simmons, Josh (season)
Caffey, a running back for the Buckeyes, is out for the remainder of the season due to a knee injury. Left tackle Simmons was also ruled out for the season with a knee injury.
- Ohio State leads the all-time series with Northwestern with a 65-14-1 record.
- The Buckeyes have beat the Wildcats in 10 straight games since a 33-27 Northwestern win in 2004.
- Ohio State is 19-1 (Purdue, 1943) in baseball stadiums. Eleven of those games were played against Minnesota at the Metrodome.
- Ohio State and Northwestern are playing a game for the second time in this series’ history at an MLB park.
- Will Howard has completed at least 80% of his passes in five games so far this season, setting an Ohio State record.
- Jeremiah Smith has set Ohio State freshman records in receptions (45), yards (765) and touchdowns (nine). He's No. 1 nationally among freshman in all three categories.
- TreVeyon Henderson (3,333 rush yards) passed all-time great rushing QBs J.T. Barrett (3,263) and Braxton Miller (3,314) in career rushing yards last week.
- This will be Ohio State's fourth straight noon game and part of six straight noon kickoffs to close the season.
- Ohio State's red zone offense is No. 1 in the country, with an 88.2% touchdown percentage (30 of 34).
- Besides the Oregon game, Ohio State's defense has not allowed more than 273 yards this season.
Ohio State schedule for the 2024 season:
- Aug. 31 – Akron (W 52-6)
- Sept. 7 – Western Michigan (W 56-0)
- Sept. 14 – Off
- Sept. 21 – Marshall (W 49-14)
- Sept. 28 – at Michigan State (W 38-7)
- Oct. 5 – Iowa (W 35-7)
- Oct. 12 – at Oregon (L 32-31)
- Oct. 19 – Off
- Oct. 26 – Nebraska (W 21-17)
- Nov. 2 – at Penn State
- Nov. 9 – Purdue (W, 45-0)
- Nov. 16 – at Northwestern
- Nov. 23 – Indiana
- Nov. 30 – Michigan (Noon, FOX)