Once again, there’s a lot of praise for Ohio State among B1G coaches.

Each year, Athlon Sports publishes comments that anonymous B1G coaches make about other teams in the league. Some are incredibly complimentary and others might take the occasional shot at an opponent. The protection of anonymity really allows these staffers to open up.

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But nobody had many negative things to say about the Buckeyes heading into the 2021 season. After the program has won four straight B1G titles and reached the College Football Playoff the last two seasons, how could you?

Instead, there was quite a bit of praise for Ryan Day’s team. Here’s what anonymous coaches had to say about Ohio State, per Athlon Sports:

“They’re scary. They’re scary in every phase, they’re scary situationally, they’re scary in warmups. I don’t think anyone is close to their level of talent and execution in this league, and that’s because they’re really competing with themselves at this point, at least in terms of the conference. They’re competing against Clemson and Alabama and developing NFL guys, it’s just a different culture than the more popular approaches in this league. They’re so much bigger than the region.”

“The defensive scheme is a nightmare. It puts you in binds and forces you to make bad decisions, but it’s the personnel doing it. They’re not chess matching you on defense because they don’t have to. The defensive front controls their entire game. It lets the secondary get simple and fly around and be killers.”

“Offensively they’re not doing the newest or sharpest thing because they don’t have to. You have a pretty good idea what they’re going to do to you, they’re just going to do it with better players and usually a quarterback that can out and out change the game.”

“Defensively they learned a hard lesson against Bama, but that’s the level of opponent it takes to break their system. The secondary was bad in the title game because the front could set that tone. That’s their weakness, I guess. The problem is there are only three or four teams in the country that can expose it and none of them play in this league.”

In his first two seasons at Ohio State, Day has led the Buckeyes to a 20-2 record, with the only losses coming in the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes have won 21 straight B1G contests entering the season.

Ohio State opens up this season on Thursday, Sept. 2 against Minnesota at Huntington Bank Stadium.