- Name
- Liam McCullough
- Nationality
- United States
- Position
- LS
- Height
- 6'2"
- Weight
- 228
- Birthday
- 6/5/1997
- Hometown
- Columbus, OH
- High School
- Worthington Kilbourne
- Past Teams
- Ohio State
- Seasons
- 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Major: LEE-um
Major: Finance (2019), Business (2017-18)
Weight: 237 (2019), 228 (2016-18), 210 (2015)
2019 Media Guide: Liam McCullough enters his fourth season as Ohio State’s long snapper and has handled all snaps flawlessly in 40 of the 41 games over the last three seasons … he missed the 2016 Oklahoma game because of illness, but otherwise McCullough has honed in on 132 “good” snaps in 2016, another 143 successful snaps in 2017 and 156 in 2018 for a total of 431 consecutive “pearls,” to quote McCullough.
2018 Media Guide: Liam McCullough enters his third season as Ohio State’s long snapper and has handled all snaps flawlessly in 26 of the 27 games over the last two seasons … missed the 2016 Oklahoma game because of illness, but otherwise McCullough has honed in on 132 “good” snaps in 2016 and another 143 successful snaps in 2017 for a total of 275 consecutive “pearls,” to quote McCullough … has high games of 13 snaps three times, most recently vs. Indiana in the 2017 season opener … his fewest snaps in a game is eight, five times, and most recently at Iowa in 2017 … a two-year Varsity O letter winner, McCullough is also outstanding in the classroom, having been named an
OSU Scholar-Athlete twice and an Academic all-Big Ten honoree twice … this past summer he was also named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar for a second time for having an academic year grade point average of over 3.70.
2017 Media Guide: Liam McCullough is the only returning specialist from last season for the Buckeyes, as the teams kicker, punter and holder have all graduated … McCullough handled all the long snaps in 12 of the Buckeyes 13 games last year, missing only the Oklahoma game because of illness … he earned his first Varsity O letter in the process … a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, OSU Scholar-Athlete and an Academic all-Big Ten honoree, McCullough is majoring in business … he completed an internship this past summer with Goldman Sachs in New York City.
2016 Media Guide: Liam McCullough red-shirted the 2015 season as a true freshman and is in line now to succeed three-year snapper Bryce Haynes.
2015 Media Guide: Liam McCullough is believed to be only the second long snapper in Ohio State annals to earn a scholarship offer out of high school senior; the first being current Buckeye Bryce Haynes, who will be a senior in 2015 … McCullough had scholarship offers from two other Big Ten schools and one in the SEC … he was rated as the No. 1 long snapper in the country by 247Sports and No. 2 by the Rubio long snapping service … was called “dominant” on the Rubio long snapping website and “snaps with great power and accuracy”.
High School: Has been Kilbourne’s long snapper since his freshman season, and he has been a long
snapper since the fifth grade … helped coach Vince Trombetti’s Wolves to an 8-4 record in 2014 and to the second round of the Ohio state playoffs … was selected to play in the U.S. Army All-America game.
Personal: Talents also include teaching himself how to play the piano and trombone … he is the son of Michelle and Mike McCullough.
Offensive Stats
Season | Team | G | GS |
---|---|---|---|
2016 | Ohio State | 12 | 0 |
2017 | Ohio State | 14 | 0 |
Total | - | 26 | 0 |
Defensive Stats
Season | Team | G | GS | Tkl | Solo | Asst |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Ohio State | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2017 | Ohio State | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | - | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |