{"id":687760,"date":"2026-03-28T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/687760\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:23:14","slug":"ohio-state-rises-to-pole-position-for-highly-coveted-2029-rb-makai-buchanan-after-eye-opening-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/687760\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State rises to pole position for highly coveted 2029 RB Makai Buchanan after eye-opening visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be very, very early in the recruitment of running back <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/makai-buchanan-46158890\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Makai Buchanan<\/a><\/b>, but a clear frontrunner has been established.<\/p>\n<p>The talented 2029 prospect from Victorville (Calif.) Victor Valley made it to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/ohio-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ohio State<\/a><\/b> this week for his first up-close look at the Buckeyes, checking out a program that has become a go-to destination for many of the premier players out West in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>After an eye-opening experience, Buchanan has Ohio State as his No. 1 contender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may be very, very early in the recruitment of running back Makai Buchanan, but a clear frontrunner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":687761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-687760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116306549673526712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}