A pair of safeties and a pair of wide receivers lead Ohio State’s top players entering the College Football Playoff.
Caleb Downs returns to the top spot in the Buckeye 20, Eleven Warriors’ ranking of Ohio State’s top 20 players, after being leaped by Jeremiah Smith in the midseason rankings. Downs earned all but two first-place votes from our staff in our pre-College Football Playoff rankings after a spectacular regular season for which he earned first-team All-American honors while leading the way for the Buckeyes to have the top defense in college football.