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Home Grown: Gavin Cupp Proves It's Possible to Go From Small-Town High School to Ohio State

Urban Meyer knows better than anyone the importance to recruit the fruitful ground of the state of Ohio into his college football program. Due to this perception, Eleven Warriors will look at the 10 Ohio high school programs who produced Buckeyes in 2016.

Ohio Home Grown: Profiling the home-grown talent in Ohio State's 2015 class.

LEIPSIC, Ohio — There isn’t much scenery on the two-hour drive north along Route 23 from Columbus to Leipsic High School. You’ll cruise past some corn fields and old wooden buildings that look like they haven’t been touched in years, and on this specific Tuesday summer afternoon, there was a woman selling jarred honey on the side of the road toward the end of the trip.