Ohio State football team might lose another five-star recruit thanks to Ross Bjork

The Ohio State football program is on pace to have the worst full recruiting class since Ryan Day took over as head coach. Right now, the Buckeyes have the ninth-best recruiting class in the country, which would be by far the worst class since the 2019 class when they were transitioning between Urban Meyer and Day.

Since then, the Ohio State Buckeyes have had a top-five recruiting class every single year. Adding five-star safety recruit Bralan Womack would certainly help that recruiting ranking. He is expected to pick Ohio State when he announces his commitment on August 21st.

Unfortunately, rumors have popped up that might not be the case anymore. It sounds like the Buckeyes might end up losing out on him to another school because of a lack of NIL, something that Ross Bjork refuses to use with collectives like every other school in the country.

Bjork hasn’t been approaching NIL like every other school in the country. Instead of allowing outside collectives to help funding for incoming recruits, he insists on handling the NIL through the Buckeye Sports Group, which is the in-house NIL collective that the university has.

That approach is why the Buckeyes can’t land some elite recruits in the 2026 recruiting class, in addition to the money they are spending to keep the current roster intact. Ohio State is lagging behind, despite the fact that Bjork touted the fact that he wanted the university to be at the forefront of NIL.