for as much is made about the state of Ohio having more HS football talent than Michigan- which it obviously does...most of OSU's starters are...well...not from Ohio.
QB - CJ Stroud - California
RB - TreVeyeon Henderson - Virginia
WR - Chris Olave - California
WR - Garrett Wilson - Texas
WR - Jaxon Smith-Njigba - Texas
TE - Jeremy Ruckert - New York
LT - Nicholas Petit-Frere - Florida
LG - Thayer Munford - Ohio
C - Luke Wypler - New Jersey
RG - Paris Johnson Jr. - Ohio
RT - Dawand Jones - Indiana
DE - Zach Harrison - Ohio
DT - Haskell Garrett - Nevada
NT - Antuwan Jackson - Georgia
DE - Tyreke Smith - Ohio
WILL - Steele Chambers - Georgia
MIKE - Cody Simon - New Jersey
BULL - Ronnie Hickman - New Jersey
CB - Denzel Burke - Arizona
CB - Sevyn Banks - Florida
FS - Bryson Shaw - Maryland
CS - Craig Young - Indiana
2 on offense and 2 on defense- both at LOS positions.
Michigan has 1 starter on offense (LT Ryan Hayes) from the state of Michigan, and 4 on defense (OLB/DE Aidan Hutchinson, NT Mazi Smith, ILB Josh Ross, and CB Vincent Gray).
There are 44 starters on these units between the two teams. Only 9 are from Michigan/Ohio, roughly 20%. Which means 80% of the starting players in this game aren't even from these states or really know what it means to the people of these two states.
Also: kind of makes me think it really doesn't matter how much talent you have in your state if you can recruit nationally. Not exactly like Bama has stock-piles of HS talent in their state. Ever since Saban has been there they recruit nationally and get whoever the hell they want from whatever state they want.