COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State might head into its final home game of the regular season without a full deck on offense.

Coach Ryan Day did not rule out star receivers Jeremiah Smith and Carnell Tate for this weekend when the top-ranked Buckeyes play host to Rutgers, but he also did not want to go into specifics on their availability.

The same went for Josh Padilla, a reserve offensive lineman who had been seeing playing time at right guard before he suffered an undisclosed injury and missed the last two games.

“Our policy is we don’t discuss specifics on injuries, and once you start going down a little bit here, a little bit there, you can create a problem,” Day said Tuesday. “So for a number of reasons, we don’t discuss those things. We put out the report the day of the game, but

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