For most of the last decade, Ohio State's cornerbacks were known as BIA.
With Bradley Roby, Marshon Lattimore, Eli Apple, Gareon Conley, Denzel Ward, Jeff Okudah and Damon Arnette as some of the players the Buckeyes produced from 2014-20, one could claim that the Buckeyes' cornerbacks were, in fact, the Best in America.
However, after three consecutive seasons in which Ohio State's pass defense has been a weakness for the program, that claim has become harder and harder to defend.
As the 2023 iteration of Ohio State's cornerback room prepares for the season, its mission is to reinstall the tradition of BIA, and in tandem with the team's safeties, put the Buckeyes back in the conversation as college football's Defensive Back U.