ESPN has opted for SEC homerism more than impartial college football coverage. Anyone who is a fan of the Ohio State football program has noticed that over the last couple of years. It has gotten worse in the last year, now that the new TV deals have kicked in.
The network has also shed a massive amount of good talent behind the scenes in order to afford massive paydays for people like Stephen A. Smith and Pat McAfee. In that process, they have lost credibility with the audience for a multitude of things they get wrong during broadcasts.
That reared its ugly head again on Saturday afternoon. While ESPN was broadcasting a high school football game with several high-profile recruits, they flashed a graphic that could not have been more incorrect. A simple Google search could have prevented this.
ESPN flashes incorrect graphic about Ohio State football recruit Kayden Dixon-Wyatt
While broadcasting a game between Mater Dei of California and St. Thomas Aquinas of Florida, they flashed up an incorrect graphic about one of the Buckeyes' best recruits. Kayden Dixon-Wyatt, a receiver for Mater Dei, was claimed to be committed to Clemson by ESPN.
How can ESPN be this unreliable with high school recruiting. He has never been committed or even loosely mentioned Clemson in his recruitment. Been committed to Ohio State for months now. pic.twitter.com/b31ytvHlL7
— Go Bucknuts 🌰 (@gobucknutsgo) August 23, 2025
Dixon-Wyat has been committed to the Ohio State Buckeyes since May, so it's not like this is a new development. Dixon-Wyatt didn't even have an offer from Clemson, so to put this on a graphic on a national broadcast is malpractice. It's so easy to avoid.
Perhaps ESPN should stop cutting corners when it comes to production staff and actually keep quality people on board so that easy mistakes like this don't happen. It's a joke that this could happen when everyone can simply look up his name while sitting on the couch.
Dixon-Wyatt and Chris Henry Jr. are both Buckeye recruits, and both were featured in this game. It was somewhat surprising to see that they didn't try to say that Henry Jr. was committed to Alabama or something crazy like that. If ESPN is going to have the responsibility of broadcasting games like this, they have to make sure they have correct information they are sharing with the viewers.
At this point, the only reason why fans of the Buckeyes should tune into ESPN is for College Gameday to send Lee Corso off on his final show next weekend. Otherwise, it's better to ignore the network entirely until the College Football Playoff rolls around.