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: Dan Hope via TheLantern.com -- The story of NCAA rule violations happening within Ohio State athletics has not come to an end. Forty-six secondary violations have been self-reported to the NCAA by the OSU athletic department since May 30, 2011, the day that former football coach Jim Tressel was forced to resign. However, the OSU Athletic Compliance Office has done a much more effective job in that time frame of monitoring violations by their athletic teams. The violations vary in nature from current ... 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 Pat Brennan via TheLantern.com -- Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and football coach Urban Meyer both committed NCAA violations in the last year, and they were not alone. Violations by Smith and Meyer accounted for two of 46 violations that the athletic department self-reported to the NCAA since May 30, 2011. OSU released documents last week detailing the violations that have occurred since the day former Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel was forced to resign from his job. The violations were attributed to...... READ ... 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: Jon Spencer via zanesvilletimesrecorder.com --  When it was pointed out after April's spring game that early enrollee Michael Thomas' 12 receptions almost matched the team high for the entire 2011 season, Urban Meyer smiled. Ohio State's football coach was not smiling earlier this week. The purpose of Meyer's news conference Wednesday was to unveil his two-deep roster heading into fall camp, but he unveiled much more. If he were attaching grades to what he saw this spring, Meyer would give an A to the ... 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 Adam Rittenberg via ESPN.com --    Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer and athletic director Gene Smith acknowledged having committed secondary NCAA violations in recent months, according to a report in The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. The ancillary errors by Meyer and Smith are part of 46 secondary violations in 21 sports at Ohio State reported since last May 30. The Plain Dealer obtained the list of violations through an open records request. Meyer is reported to have said "good luck" to football recruit Noah Spence ... Read More

By John Kampf via News-Herald.com -- Expectations have been high for the Ohio State football team since the day it was announced Urban Meyer was taking over the program. Some of those expectations, from the most ardent Buckeye fans, might be a little lofty. A quick turnaround from last year's suspension-riddled, drama-laced 6-7 season is desired. After releasing the his first two-deep depth chart on Wednesday, Meyer outlined what expectations could be for the 2012 season. "Talent will get you seven or eight wins," Meyer ... Read More