Buckeyes Launch a Sad Campaign for Jeremiah Smith as the Season Is Up In Flames

The Ohio State Buckeyes season is officially over, and the time of death was on Wednesday, when they launched the JJ4ItAll Campaign. Never in this program's recent history have they pivoted a season to focus on just a player's individual awards, but here we are.

Now, I want to be very clear that if there was ever a person to do this for, it is for Jeremiah Smith. He has absolutely earned the right, by both his play and his character to deserve recognition and attention like this. He is so good, and the injury to Julian Sayin derailed his entire quest to rewrite all of the record books.

For the Buckeyes program, what a sad day this is. If you're telling the truth to yourself, this is really embarrassing for this program. They have never put individual accomplishments ahead of anything else, but here they are.

Furthermore, why did they need to lose three football games and have to end their season to realize they needed to get the ball to Jeremiah Smith at least 10 times per game? And by the way, not in garbage time when the game was already all but decided, like they did last week.

The way that the Ohio State offensive staff approached these last two games with Luke Fahey has been nothing short of horrific. Not having a proper backup plan to start is a head-scratcher, and then, when that guy checked into the game, not having a plan to get the ball to Jeremiah Smith as often as possible is laughable.

It's going to be a really bad situation when they just spam the Jeremiah Smith targets and catches over the next three weeks, and their offense is the best that it has ever been.

The fact that Ohio State's best games this year were when he had over 10 catches, and in each of those games he had over 200 yards receiving and multiple touchdowns, and the Buckeyes rolled each time to easy victories.

This is a white flag from the Buckeyes on a season that has been lost. It is rare that this team and this program throw in the towel like this, but that is where they are after they were dismantled at the hands of the Oregon Ducks.

Now, all that is left is a campaign for Jeremiah Smith to win all of the awards that he would have won had Ryan Day and Arthur Smith used him the way that they should have.