Growing up in Columbus, OH, it wouldn't have been surprising if linebacker Rasheem Biles wanted to play for the Ohio State Buckeyes, but he went unrecruited by his hometown team coming out of high school and landed with the Pittsburgh Panthers instead.
Now, he's suiting up for the Texas Longhorns, after transferring from Pitt this offseason, and was just a massive part of why the Horns were able to defeat the then-No. 1 Buckeyes.
Afterward the victory, Biles didn't try to soften the blow for his hometown team and was one of the most elated Longhorns on the field, celebrating alongside every single one of his teammates and coaches.
"We locked in; they shoulda came and got us," Biles screamed out of pure joy after the game. "Hey! We gonna show you why we No. 1 in the country... real soon."
Rasheem Biles after the game pic.twitter.com/AhZhtbtriP
— Travis Recek (@TravisRecek) September 13, 2026
He was right, by the way. After the comeback win over Ohio State, the Longhorns earned the No. 1 spot in the latest AP Top 25 Poll, dethroning the Buckeyes and sending them all the way to No. 6 in the rankings.
Rasheem Biles and other transfer additions pushed Horns above Ohio State
Biles is just one of a plethora of transfer portal additions that head coach Steve Sarkisian made this offseason, alongside a slew of offensive weapons to help quarterback Arch Manning.
This buy-in on the portal and all-out effort from Sarkisian to recruit experienced talent to the roster is clearly paying off and undoubtedly helped push the Longhorns to the top of the sport, knocking Ohio State down a peg.
The Buckeyes didn't make the same kind of recruiting effort in the portal this past offseason, bringing in the No. 58 transfer class in the country with just 17 players joining the roster but 32 leaving. Texas, meanwhile, landed 22 transfer commitments and only lost 23 players ot the portal, with almost all of those being upgrades.
Simply put, Ohio State missed the mark on how to maintain its dominance, and that has part to do with how many players left for the NFL, but that's not a good excuse.
Texas solidified that Ohio State, Ryan Day are back to losing big games
Ohio State won the National Championship at the end of the 2024 season, and since then, the Buckeyes have been viewed as the team to beat, even after the Indiana Hoosiers defeated them in last year's Big Ten title game and went on to win a natty of their own.
However, the allure of OSU has been tarnished slightly over the team's last four games, and the loss to Texas may be the straw that broke the camel's back of the Buckeyes being the "top dawg" in college football.
For the first five years of his tenure at Ohio State, head coach Ryan Day was known for blowing it in the biggest games of the year: the Buckeyes' rivalry matchups against the Michigan Wolverines, Big Ten Championships, and any College Football Playoff appearances.
That all changed when Ohio State won the National Championship in 2024, but in its last four "big" games, the Buckeyes have gone 1-3.
- at No. 4 Texas Longhorns (regular season) -- 23-24 loss
- vs. No. 10 Miami Hurricanes (CFP quarterfinal) -- 14-24 loss
- vs. No. 2 Indiana Hoosiers (Big Ten Championship) -- 10-13 loss
- vs. No. 15 Michigan Wolverines (regular season) -- 27-9 win
In fact, the Buckeyes and Day are currently on a three-game losing streak against ranked opponents, only defeating the Ball State Cardinals in Week 1 to save themselves from going winless since last November.
The loss to Texas was another nail in the coffin, and while Day isn't going anywhere anytime soon, it undeniably looks like he is back to losing when it matters the most.
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