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Re: Jersey Countdown to College Football Saturday
« Reply #154 on: June 14, 2025, 08:11:41 AM »


Fonoti – a 340-pound guard from Hawaii – was dominant throughout the 2001 season. Big, quick and strong, he owns the school record for pancake blocks in a game (32 against Texas Tech – 41% of all offensive plays), a season (201) and a career (379). He earned All-Big 12 and first team All-America honors.

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Re: Jersey Countdown to College Football Saturday
« Reply #155 on: June 14, 2025, 08:16:55 AM »
from the current roster
Gottula was a standout offensive lineman for Lincoln Southeast High School.



2024 (Redshirt Freshman)

After battling an early injury, Gunnar Gottula played in 11 games in 2024 with the first nine starts of his career, all at left tackle. He made his season debut against Northern Iowa after missing the first two games. Gottula played the majority of the game at left tackle against Illinois following an injury to starting left tackle Turner Corcoran. He started the next game at left tackle and started the final nine games at left tackle.
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« Reply #156 on: June 14, 2025, 08:17:55 AM »
No 77 will see the field this season. I give you Wendell Bryant (and Joey Heisman).

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Re: Jersey Countdown to College Football Saturday
« Reply #157 on: June 15, 2025, 09:05:45 AM »


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« Reply #158 on: June 15, 2025, 09:54:38 AM »
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« Reply #159 on: June 16, 2025, 07:11:54 AM »


1971 was Larry Jacobson’s best season. Arguably the best defensive player on one of the greatest college football teams of all time, Jake was an unstoppable force. He had 73 tackles, with 12 for loss and an interception. The 1971 Blackshirts finished in the top 5 in rushing defense, total defense and scoring defense. Jacobson was first-team All-Big Eight, a first-team All-American, won the Outland,* and was a finalist for the Lombardi Award. He was also an Academic All-American.

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« Reply #160 on: June 16, 2025, 07:20:10 AM »

In addition to his athletic achievements, Shields was a decorated student, earning Academic All-America honors in 1992. It was important to him that he graduated before going to the NFL – a task made harder by not redshirting. Shields earned his degree before being a third-round draft pick* of the Kansas City Chiefs.

*A random factoid: Will Shields’ first agent was Kevin Warren, who would later become the commissioner of the Big Ten Conference.


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Re: Jersey Countdown to College Football Saturday
« Reply #161 on: June 16, 2025, 07:48:17 AM »
No number 75 will see the field for Wisconsin this season. I give you All-American OT and current Wisconsin AD, Chris McIntosh, playing against UCLA in the Rose Bowl.



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Re: Jersey Countdown to College Football Saturday
« Reply #162 on: June 16, 2025, 08:36:09 AM »
Kevin Jarvis: MSU football left tackle leaves field vs. Arizona State
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« Reply #163 on: June 16, 2025, 11:11:07 AM »

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ROB SIMS

The top Buckeye to wear No. 77 was one of the best to play offensive line for Ohio State in the Jim Tressel era
2002-05


b. Dec. 6, 1983 (Macedonia, Ohio)

Three-year Starter (2003-05)


National Champion (2002)


Team Captain (2005)


First-Team All-Big Ten (2005)


Rob Sims was a three-year starter at Ohio State, and contributed to the 2002 team that took home the national championship for the first time since 1968.

Sims started at left tackle for the 2003 and 2004 seasons before bumping inside to guard in 2005, swapping spots with Doug Datish.

Sims never lost a bowl game in his career at Ohio State, winning three Fiesta Bowls and the Alamo Bowl in 2004. He was named a captain as a senior alongside the likes of A.J. Hawk, Nate Salley and Nick Mangold.

He went on to have a very successful NFL career after being drafted in the fourth round of the 2006 draft by the Seattle Seahawks. He spent four seasons in Seattle before being traded to the Detroit Lions where he finished his NFL career. He started all 16 regular season games for the Lions from 2010-14 before retiring prior to the 2015 campaign.



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NO. 76 DE JIM MARSHALL

1957-1958

b. 1937 (Danville, Kentucky)

d. 2025 (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

All-American (1958)

National champion (1957)

National titles define teams, and All-American honors define individual players. Jim Marshall finished his Buckeye career with both.

Marshall played just two seasons at Ohio State, but he certainly left his mark. One of the team's top defensive ends in history, Marshall helped guide the Buckeyes to the 1957 national championship and was named an All-American the following season.

Marshall's most memorable game came during the 1958 season in a 14-14 tied against Purdue when he scored all 14 of Ohio State's points. He intercepted a pass and returned it for a touchdown, returned a blocked punt for a touchdown and also kicked both extra points.

After a successful two-year stint with the Buckeyes, Marshall left Ohio State a year early and played in the Canadian Football League before beginning his NFL career with the Cleveland Browns a year later. He was later traded to the Minnesota Vikings where he started for 19 seasons, appearing in four Super Bowls.




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Re: Jersey Countdown to College Football Saturday
« Reply #164 on: June 16, 2025, 11:25:43 AM »

No. 75 OT Orlando Pace
1994-1996
b. Nov. 4, 1975 (Sandusky, Ohio)

Big Ten Freshman of the Year (1994)
B1G Offensive Player of the Year (1996)
Unanimous All-American (1995, '96)
Lombardi Award (1995, '96)
Outland Trophy (1996)
UPI Lineman of the Year (1996)
College Football Hall of Fame (2013)
Orlando Pace was the easiest choice of this entire project.

Pace earned a starting position on Ohio State's offensive line on his first day of preseason camp and went on to start every game for the next three years.

Pace, the inventor of the pancake block in 1996 — in which an offensive lineman puts a defensive lineman on his back — did not allow a sack during the '95 and '96 seasons while showcasing a devastating downfield blocking ability.

Pace finished his junior campaign fourth in Heisman voting, which was the best finish for a Buckeye lineman since John Hicks placed second in 1973.

Pace earned consensus All-Big Ten and unanimous All-American honors in 1995 and '96, as well as the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year and the Chicago Tribune's Silver Football in 1996.

The St. Louis Rams selected Pace with the first overall pick in the 1997 NFL Draft. He started on the 1999 Super Bowl championship team.

 He is a member of the College Football and NFL Halls of Fame.
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Re: Jersey Countdown to College Football Saturday
« Reply #165 on: June 17, 2025, 08:17:51 AM »


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Re: Jersey Countdown to College Football Saturday
« Reply #166 on: June 17, 2025, 08:51:01 AM »


No. 74 John Hicks
In his senior year as Ohio State's right tackle in 1973, John Hicks had one of the greatest seasons by an offensive lineman in college football history. Along with being awarded the Outland Trophy as college football's best lineman, and the Lombardi Award as college football's best lineman or linebacker, Hicks finished second in voting for the 1973 Heisman Trophy – the closest an offensive lineman has ever come to winning the Heisman in the two-platoon era.

RT John Hicks
1970-73
b. March 21, 1951 (Cleveland, Ohio)
d. Oct. 30, 2016 (Columbus, Ohio)

First-Team All-American (1972, 1973)
First-Team All-Big Ten (1972, 1973)
Outland Trophy (1973)
Lombardi Award (1973)
Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame (1985)
College Football Hall of Fame (2001)
Rose Bowl Hall of Fame (2009)

Hicks was a three-year starter for the Buckeyes at right tackle. After first earning that role in 1970, Hicks missed the 1971 season with a knee injury. He came back stronger than ever in 1972, however, earning All-American honors in each of his final two seasons at Ohio State (unanimous in 1973).The first player to ever start in three Rose Bowls, Hicks was inducted into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame in 1985, the College Football Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 2009.Hicks was selected by the New York Giants with the No. 3 overall pick in the 1974 NFL draft, and played in 52 games over four seasons with the Giants before his career was cut short by injuries.

Hicks died in 2016, at the age of 65, due to complications from diabetes, but his legacy lives on as one of the best offensive linemen to ever wear the scarlet and gray.


Buckeyes had some stout interior lines back in the day that's for sure.
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Re: Jersey Countdown to College Football Saturday
« Reply #167 on: June 17, 2025, 08:52:22 AM »
There is no number 74 for Wisconsin this season. So, I give you an article on the 1974 Badger football team. :88:

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