For the first time since 2019, Ohio State fans were back in Ohio Stadium to watch the Buckeyes play football on Saturday.
It wasn’t the six-figure crowd that the Buckeyes are accustomed to seeing in the Shoe, but a socially-distanced crowd of 19,180 fans was inside Ohio Stadium to watch Saturday’s spring game. With COVID-19 protocols still in place, fans were seated in physically distanced pods that left plenty of empty seats between them, but members of Buckeye Nation were interspersed throughout the stadium stands for the largest crowd inside the Shoe since before the pandemic started.
The Ohio State Athletic Band was also in attendance and performed a halftime show, while Brutus Buckeye and the rest of the spirit squad was in the stadium, as well.