Ohio State football players know they are being watched closely, that their every move on the practice field and off is being scrutinized and measured, perhaps more closely now than ever.
Coach Urban Meyer and his director of sports performance, Mickey Marotti, decided during last season’s 15-game run to the first College Football Playoff national championship that they needed more information and better control of their players’ well-being to help them get through that grind with fewer injuries.
“Just the toll on the body, and by adding that one game, what would that mean to these players in recovery and how they would perform in that game?