By: RUSTY MILLER (prescription drugs online target=”_blank”>AP via DaytonDailyNews.com) –

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jim Tressel has always wanted to see an Army-Navy game.

“That’s on my sports ‘bucket list’ to someday see that game,” he said. “I’ve never been to it, but I’ve heard it’s breathtaking.”

Seeing the Midshipmen shift gears on that lethal running attack against Army in a stadium full of dress uniforms is one thing. Tressel has no desire to see Navy put on a show on Saturday when they take on his sixth-ranked Buckeyes.

“I guess I have a little different perspective as I’m watching that triple-option run up and down the field” at Ohio Stadium, he said with a chuckle.

The Buckeyes host the Midshipmen for the first time in 78 years in the season opener for both teams. Ohio State is hopeful of another shot at a national title, not to mention extending its string of Big Ten titles to five in a row.

Navy is shooting for a seventh consecutive season of at least eight wins while hoping to add to its record of four consecutive national rushing titles.

Coach Ken Niumatalolo knows what his squad is up against when it steps before 106,000 partisan fans.

“It’s a great challenge,” he said. “Ohio State has a phenomenal football program with a legendary coach and a bunch of future first- and second-round draft choices. This program has been in three of the last seven national championship games, five BCS bowl games in that span. It is one of the elite programs in the country.”

Told that most of the best-known Buckeyes from a year ago — linebacker James Laurinaitis, tailback Chris “Beanie” Wells, wide receiver Brian Robiskie and several other household names — are gone, the second-year coach of the Midshipmen almost laughed.

“It doesn’t matter. They just reload,” he said. “There are guys the country doesn’t know about right now that are going to be stars and future NFL draft picks.”

Ohio State’s defense returns seven starters. Among the only four holdovers on offense is quarterback Terrelle Pryor, the nation’s top recruit two years ago and coming off a yearof seasoning in which the Buckeyes won eight of…

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