By: AP via FoxSports.com –

Really?

Yep. Less than a month after losing to a Purdue team that had won just one of its first six games, the No. 10 Buckeyes find themselves needing only a win Viagra cheap over the 15th-ranked Hawkeyes to start booking flights for Pasadena, Calif.

“No, I had no idea,” Ballard said, trying hard to not let his jaw hit the table in front of him.

To get back to the Rose Bowl for the first time since the 1996 season, Ohio State, a team that couldn’t seem to win a big game for three years, now must win two in the span of a little more than a week.

The Buckeyes handled then-No. 11 Penn State 24-7 in Happy Valley on Saturday, the same day Iowa lost quarterback Ricky Stanzi and its first game at home against Northwestern, 17-10.

Those two outcomes set the stage for a winner-take-all slugfest at Ohio Stadium. The victor is assured of a Rose Bowl berth against an opponent from the muddled Pac-10 (the front-runners are Arizona and Oregon).

The Buckeyes (8-2, 5-1) have won three games in a row since that 26-18 loss in West Lafayette, Ind. The victory over Penn State ended a string of six losses in a row against higher-ranked teams.

Coach Jim Tressel said his players realize beating the Nittany Lions doesn’t mean much if they don’t follow up.

“They knew once the ball game was over that although that was awfully tough, what lies ahead is even tougher,” he said.

The Buckeyes have been contemplating this stretch of three games ever since…..

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