FIRST AND TEN
- No. 1/1 Ohio State (3-0) and the additionally unbeaten Washington Huskies (3-0) meet in a 12:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (3:30 p.m. EDT) sport Saturday at Husky Stadium in Seattle. The sport will kick off the 113th Big Ten Conference season for Ohio State and the second for Washington.
- This is Ohio State’s first go to to Husky Stadium because the 2007 season. It can also be Ohio State’s first highway journey of the 2025 marketing campaign and the primary of three Big Ten highway video games within the subsequent 4 video games.
- The Buckeyes, who practiced three days final week however didn’t play this previous Saturday, will conclude their work week this week Thursday afternoon after which fly to Seattle later that night.
- Coach Ryan Day‘s Ohio State groups are 23-3 in true highway video games, 31-7 in highway/impartial subject video games and 20-4 with a couple of week to organize for an opponent.
- Ohio State is on a seven-game successful streak – tied for second-longest, nationally, to Memphis’ eight-game streak – whereas Washington has received 22 consecutive residence video games, the longest energetic residence successful streak in faculty soccer.
- The groups will subsequent meet within the common season in three years, in 2028 in Columbus.
BY THE NUMBERS
27: Ohio State has performed 27 true or red-shirt freshmen to date this season with SAF Faheem Delane, LB Riley Pettijohn, TE Nate Roberts and CB Devin Sanchez enjoying in all three video games as far as true freshmen.
.901: Ryan Day‘s groups are 46-5 in Big Ten Conference video games by means of his first six seasons as head coach, for a successful share of .901 and with a powerful 24-2 file (.923) in Big Ten highway video games.
4: Jeremiah Smith wants 4 catches to tie Jaxon Smith-Njigba because the quickest Buckeye to 100 profession receptions … 20 video games. Smith broke Smith-Njigba’s file for quickest to 1,500 yards final week (19 video games).
6-1: Ohio State is 6-1 in Pacific Time zone video games because the 2007 win over Washington, incl. 4 Rose Bowl wins (OR in 2010, UW in 2019, UT in 2022 and OR in 2025), a ’13 win at Cal and a ’24 loss at Oregon.
THREE OF FOUR ON THE ROAD
- Ohio State will play three of its first 4 Big Ten Conference video games on the highway.
- Following the Washington sport, the Buckeyes host Minnesota (2-1) after which journey in consecutive weeks to No. 23 Illinois (3-1) and to Wisconsin (2-2).
- This is the third time a Ryan Day-coached crew will play three of its first 4 convention video games on the highway.
- The Buckeyes additionally did so in 2019 and 2021 and went 4-0 in these video games annually.
THE OHIO STATE-WASHINGTON SERIES
- Ohio State and Washington are enjoying for the thirteenth time on the gridiron and the primary time because the 2019 Rose Bowl, received by Ohio State, 28-23.
- Ohio State holds a 9-3 benefit within the collection, together with 4 consecutive victories.
- The groups have performed a near-even cut up of video games in Seattle (six) and Columbus (5) with the one Rose Bowl sport in Pasadena. Ohio State is 4-2 in Seattle video games and 4-1 in Columbus video games.
LAST TIME AT HUSKY STADIUM
- The sport, the primary between the colleges with each as members of the Big Ten, is the primary between the 2 at Husky Stadium because the 2007 season when Ohio State prevailed 33-14.
- Current Buckeye assistants – OC/WR coach Brian Hartline and LB coach James Laurinaitis – every had massive video games again then vs. the Huskies.
- Hartline had six receptions for 88 yards and a 36-yard TD catch.
- Laurinaitis had two interceptions: one on the OSU 5 and the opposite on the OSU 23.
- Longtime Ohio State AD Andy Geiger was honorary captain for the Buckeyes.
DAY IN COACHING MATCH-UPS
- Coach Ryan Day and Washington coach Jedd Fisch can be on reverse sidelines for the primary time.
- Day is 38-7 in first-time teaching matchups with nationwide champion coaches Dabo Swinney, Nick Saban and Kirby Smart accounting for 3 of the defeats.
- Day’s wins in such matchups embrace over Jim Harbaugh, Marcus Freeman, Gary Patterson, Kyle Whittingham and the Big Ten’s all-time wins chief, Kirk Ferentz.
PAT CHUN: FROM SID TO UW AD
- Pat Chun began his faculty athletics profession as an assistant SID within the Ohio State sports activities data workplace within the late Nineties.
- In 15 years he superior at Ohio State to growth officer to sport AD to government affiliate AD overseeing soccer.
- Chun left Ohio State in 2012 and has been an AD ever since: six years at each Florida Atlantic (2012-18) and Washington State (2018-24) and now he’s in his second yr at Washington.
- Chun’s spouse, Natalie, is an Ohio State grad and a former Buckeye softball participant.
MORE OSU-UW TIES
- WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba was a first-round NFL draft decide of the Seahawks in 2022 and has since caught 185 passes for two,081 yards and 11 touchdowns.
- WR Joey Galloway, an ESPN studio analyst, was a first-round draft decide of the Seahawks in 1995 and performed 5 of his 16 seasons within the NFL with the group.
- Sr. Assoc. AD for Sports Performance Doug Calland spent 12 years on the University of Washington working below soccer coaches Don James and Jim Lambright. His identify is on a 1991 nationwide championship plaque on Husky Stadium.
- Assoc. VP for Brand Engagement Kevin Griffin grew up in Seattle, will go to his mom there this week and beforehand labored 9 years with the Seahawks and one other 4 years with the state of Washington’s highschool affiliation.
- The highly effective Ohio State males’s tennis program has twice performed within the indoor nationwide championships in Seattle, however its three nationwide championships got here in Houston (2014), Chicago (2019) and New York (2024).