By: AP via chillicothegazette.com -- COLUMBUS — Ohio State will get a break almost in the middle of the Big Ten season in 2015 but will have only one conference game under its belt when its bye week rolls around in 2016. The Big Ten released conference schedules for those two seasons on Monday.   Purdue is the Buckeyes’ first opponent each year, on the road on Oct. 3, 2015, and at Ohio Stadium in the conference opener on Oct. 1, 2016.   In 2015, the Ohio ... Read More

By Tim Bielik via BleacherReport.com -- Arguably the biggest recruiting battle between any two teams in all of college football is between Ohio State's Urban Meyer and Michigan's Brady Hoke. Both coaches are somewhat new to their schools as Hoke has only been at Michigan for one season and Meyer is three months away from his first game as OSU's top dog. But these two men have already had some great recruiting battles in the last six months since Meyer's hire, including some great ... Read More

By Angelique S. Chengelis via The Detroit News -- Ann Arbor— Dhani Jones said the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry has been  "reestablished" with Brady Hoke and Urban Meyer coaching the respective  schools. Jones, of course, is partial to Hoke, who was on Michigan's defensive staff  when Jones was with the Wolverines. "I'm excited about what Brady brings to the table," the former linebacker  said Friday during the Mott Hospital radiothon on WTKA. "There's no coach out  there right now in college football that's better than ... Read More

From: gopsusports.com -- PARK RIDGE, Ill. - Penn State baseball (29-25, 15-9) will open up Big Ten Tournament action with the Ohio State Buckeyes on Wednesday at 3:35 at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio. Penn State will be making its second straight appearance in the tournament. The Nittany Lions are arguably one of the hottest teams in the country right now, going 26-11 in their last 37 games and finished the season winning six-straight Big Ten series. Penn State picked up its third ... Read More

By Doug Harris via DaytonDailyNews.com --  COLUMBUS — Ohio State coach Urban Meyer might feel a little less pain about not being able to send his seniors off with a bowl trip if they happened to be a collection of slackers. But they’re not making it easy on him. The Buckeyes are ineligible for the postseason and a Big Ten championship this year because of NCAA infractions. The biggest culprits have all moved on, while those who had no part in it are ... Read More

By: Steve Greenberg via Sporting News -- CHICAGO— What’s creating the luscious aroma that’s seeping  inside the doors of Big Ten bigwigs from Lincoln to State College? Close your  eyes, take a deep breath and maybe you can catch a whiff of it yourself. Money, baby. Of course the Big Ten is on board for a four-team college football playoff. Even though multiple league athletic directors, including Ohio State’s  Gene Smith and Michigan State’s Mark Hollis, spoke at the league’s annual  meeting on Tuesday afternoon of ... Read More

From WaitingForNextYear.com -- Before he’d ever taken a snap as a college quarterback, Terrelle Pryor received a standing ovation on a brilliantly sunny day against Youngstown State in Ohio State’s cakewalk of an opener in 2008. Months before that, Sports Illustrated called his college decision “the most anticipated signing day announcement in history.” Talk about hype. A look at just the numbers suggests he lived up to the most of it. Key word: most. From 2008-20010, Pryor helped guide the Buckeyes to a share of....... READ ... Read More

From: BigTen.org -- The Big Ten led the nation in men’s basketball attendance for the 36th consecutive season according to figures recently released by the NCAA. The Big Ten led all conferences with an average attendance of 12,868, which is more than 1,300 higher than the next-closest conference. During the 2011-12 regular season, the Big Ten welcomed 2,856,785 fans over 222 games, which marks the conference’s all-time total attendance record and is the 20th straight year the conference eclipsed the two-million........ READ THE REST ... Read More

By Adam Rittenberg via ESPN.com --  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Bradley Roby came to Ohio State with a specific plan mapped out. Redshirt the first year, in part because the Buckeyes had two senior starters returning at cornerback (Chimdi Chekwa and Devon Torrence). Check. Earn a starting job as a redshirt freshman and keep it throughout Year 2 in the program. Check. Cover the Big Ten's best wide receivers -- including four selected in last month's NFL draft -- both in games and in Buckeyes practices. Check. "That's ... Read More

By Randy Chambers via bleacherreport.com --  The excitement is at an all-time high for this Buckeye program with new head coach Urban Meyer taking over. They led every college football program in spring game attendance this season and fans have huge expectations for this team moving forward. The Buckeyes return 16 starters from last year’s squad, including nine on the defensive side of the ball. They also have a stacked recruiting class coming in, and that will help put this team over the ... Read More