By: Tim Bielik (BleacherReport.com) -- As the days leading up to the 2010  season become fewer, the excitement grows in college football circles throughout the country. Perhaps nowhere is there more hype than in Columbus, OH. The second-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes will be all about QB Terrelle Pryor, a third-year starter and a Heisman hopeful who heads an offense that's bursting with potential. However, the biggest key to the Buckeye offense will not be the player known throughout Columbus as ... Read More

By John Kampf (News-Herald.com) -- Ohio State and Colorado are working to solidify an agreement to play each other in the 2011 football season. OSU athletic director Gene Smith commented on the rumor of the two schools setting up a game. "We are trying to finalize an agreement on a game for 2011," Smith said. "We hope to have an announcement on that within the next month. As everyone knows, both schools are working their conference schedules for 2011." The Buckeyes ... Read More

From: USAToday.com -- In its annual "College Football Pigskin Preview" edition, Playboy magazine has picked the Ohio State Buckeyes to win the BCS national championship over the Texas Longhorns. The magazine's preview edition, which hits newsstands on Friday, also lists its Top 25 teams (more on that below) and its annual preseason All America Team. If you are a fan of the Buckeyes, act quickly because we expect newsstands in Columbus, Ohio, to sell out rather quickly -- due to ... Read More

From: Cleveland Plain Dealer -- The Big Ten's expansion and realignment causes scheduling challenges, especially when it comes to the Ohio State Buckeyes vs. the Michigan Wolverines. How would you feel about the teams playing more than once a year, as would happen if they both made the new Big Ten championship game? Vote in the poll now posted in the Starting Blocks blog. Today's guest, Plain Dealer Ohio State reporter Doug Lesmerises, blogged Monday about OSU-Michigan and the case ... Read More

By: John Kampf (News-Herald.com) -- COLUMBUS — Cameras clicked and fingers pointed as Terrelle Pryor jogged out of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on Sunday afternoon. Unlike numerous teammates who stopped to hug, shake hands with or kiss family members on their way to the practice field, Pryor's stride was broken by no one. The 6-foot-6, 235-pound quarterback of the Ohio State Buckeyes flashed a smile to members of the media and family members of players who were ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- The Ohio State Buckeyes checked in for the start of preseason camp, with the first practice tomorrow and the Buckeyes putting on full pads for the first time next Tuesday. Some notes from check-in and early interviews: * Incoming freshman running back Roderick Smith was the only player expected who didn't report by the first meeting early this afternoon. Smith is expected to arrive from his home in Indiana either tonight or ... Read More

By: Daniel Dinunzio (BleacherReport.com) -- This is the year for the Buckeyes.  If you look at the competition and the way the schedule sets up for Jim Tressel and Ohio State, they have a favorable lineup that could earn them a spot in Glendale, Arizona in early January. Terrell Pryor is starting to become a dual-threat quarterback who is equally effective throwing the ball in the pocket as he is tucking it and running.  Coming in as a true ... Read More

By Zack Meisel (TheLantern.com) -- The media predicted Ohio State will notch its sixth consecutive Big Ten title when they ranked the Buckeyes No. 1 in the conference preseason poll at the annual Big Ten meetings in Chicago on Monday. Along with choosing OSU as the team to beat, the media tabbed Buckeye quarterback Terrelle Pryor as the Preseason Offensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. The junior led OSU to a 26-17 Rose Bowl victory over Oregon, a game in which he ... Read More

By: MATT MARKEY (ToledoBlade.com) -- Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel travels to a lot of places to find talented players, and to meet quality people who are interested in supporting the Buckeyes. Those endeavors keep bringing him back to northwest Ohio. Tressel, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith, and their wives were in Toledo Wednesday night for a fund-raising scholarship dinner, and Tressel said the passion for the Buckeyes he encountered at the even is part of ... Read More

By WALTER DOERSCHUK (The-Press-News.com) -- It's only the end of July, but the Ohio State Buckeyes can already hear "OH-IO" as they prepare for the upcoming college football season. Devon Torrence, a 2007 Canton South High School graduate, is entering his senior year on the Ohio State football team. He has thoroughly enjoyed his time as a Buckeye. “It's been a great opportunity for me,” Torrence said. “I am truly blessed to play at Ohio State.” “It's crazy it has gone ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett, who helped lead Ohio State to the 2002 national championship before spending more than three years in prison for aggravated robbery and carrying a concealed weapon, is taking classes again Ohio State. Clarett, 26, enrolled for the start of a summer session that began on Monday, with his major listed as Consumer and Family Financial Services. In a statement released through the university, Clarett said, ... Read More

BY: MATTHEW HORN (TheNews-Messenger.com) -- Good things come to those who wait. That doesn't mean something great can't come in the meantime. Woodmore graduate Ben St. John recently received a letter from Ohio State's football program illustrating this. St. John, an offensive lineman, anticipated he might not be called to work out with the Buckeyes until after the first game against Marshall but instead received the letter this month inviting him to report to camp Aug. 4. "I'm just ... Read More

By:  TOM WILLIAMS (Vindy.com) -- Long-time Pittsburgh Pirates fans remember how the struggling baseball team once tried to cover up sparse attendance at Three Rivers Stadium by placing tarps over most of the outfield upper-deck seats. When state football championship games return to Ohio Stadium in 2014, the Ohio High School Athletic Association plans to utilize a similar concept in an effort to create intimacy in the 105,000-seat facility. That’s because some of the games might have fewer than ... Read More