By: AP via TheRepublic.com — Columbus, OH — During a question-and-answer period with an Ohio State player the week before last, a young reporter asked if it inspired the Buckeyes to be so close to being “in the driver’s seat” in the Big Ten’s Leaders Division.

Well, now the Buckeyes — never actually in the driver’s seat after an 0-2 start in conference play — are sitting in the third row of a sputtering minivan, facing backward.

The 26-23 overtime loss at Purdue — which dropped the Buckeyes to 3-3 in the Big Ten — severely crippled any chances they hold of making it into the Big Ten title game on Dec. 3 in Indianapolis.

Granted, they haven’t been eliminated; there’s still hope. But it would take a series of very large dominoes to fall to make it happen.

First and foremost, Ohio State would have to win its last two games — on Saturday (at 3:30 p.m.) against Penn State and then the following week in the annual clash with archrival Michigan, this one in Ann Arbor, Mich. Those teams are……

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