COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Chris Worley got a phone call on Friday night. He wouldn't say who it was from. The message, though, stuck with him before Ohio State's game against Illinois on Saturday, Worley's final game in Ohio Stadium.

"They said you and Erick (Smith) are gonna be the last Glenville dudes on this team basically," Worley said. "It just feels crazy because I remember the first Glenville guys that were here. I was young watching those guys throughout the years. Glenville greats became Buckeye greats."

Lost in the commotion of Senior Day, the torrential downpour and a blowout win, was the end of an era.

The Glenville pipeline to Ohio State is about to run completely dry.

When it will start up again? Well, that's not exactly clear. It doesn't appear it will be any time soon.

We explored this last year when the Buckeyes played Indiana, the stark decline in the number of Glenville alums in major college football in general, and the dwindling presence on an Ohio State roster that used to be replete with Tarblooders.

You know the numbers, from 2002 to 2014, Ohio State signed 22 players from Glenville. That last 2014 class included Smith, Marshon Lattimore and Marcelys Jones. Jones left the program. Lattimore is in the NFL. Smith started at safety for the Buckeyes on Saturday, also his final game in Ohio Stadium.

Worley, a fifth-year senior, was part of the 2013 recruiting class, and he'll be gone after this year too.

Worley and Smith are two of three Glenville players left in major college football. The other is Illinois sophomore defensive back Frank Sumpter. Fitting that they were all in Ohio Stadium together on Saturday.

In the 2014 season, there were 13 former Glenville players at Power 5 programs. Now three. And two are winding up their careers.

That stuck with Worley on Saturday, another footnote on what's been a solid career. Another Tarblooder playing his part for the Buckeyes.

"I'm not willing to call myself one of those guys," Worley said, "but it kinda feels good to have some of those old Glenville guys with Buckeye ties, just coming from the same background as them."