By: Tim Cary (BleacherReport.com) -- COLUMBUS—Ohio State forced a turnover on the opening kickoff and scored their first touchdown of the season a whopping 78 seconds into the opener here Thursday night against Marshall. And just like that, this game was basically over. As the Buckeyes began their national title pursuit by disposing of the Herd 45-7, here are five things we learned about Jim Tressel's 2010 ballclub. 1. Terrelle Pryor Has Made Progress, but He's Not a Finished Product Pryor put up big ... Read More

By: Danny Flynn (BleacherReport.com) -- Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon, and Penn State. These were four of the most powerful football schools in the country. They were four schools that even the most jaded and big headed high school recruits would be honored to receive a scholarship offer from. Their lofty stature seemed irrelevant, however, when it came to the anticipation they all had for the decision of one young Pennsylvania teenager. They all sat with bated breath waiting for ... Read More

By: MATT MARKEY (Toledo Blade) -- COLUMBUS - For any commander, those guys guarding the perimeter are critically important to the entire operation. They are the sentries out on the frontier, essentially alone on an island. In football, that's the cornerbacks. They are the one man to beat for offenses attempting to strike quickly and take the least-impeded route to the end zone. Ohio State coach Jim Tressel has put his trust in seniors Chimdi Chekwa and Devon Torrence to protect the outer limits ... Read More

From: 10TV.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — A judge ruled on Wednesday that former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett can travel out of state to tryout for a professional football team. Clarett, who was released from prison in the spring, will be allowed to travel to Nebraska to tryout with the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League, 10TV's Maureen Kocot reported. A hearing on the matter originally scheduled for next week was bumped up to Wednesday afternoon. Clarett, 26, left prison after serving more than three ... Read More

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: 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: 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

From: LancasterEagleGazette.com -- LEXINGTON -- It didn't take long for Marcus Freeman to fall into character as a football coach. He got down at eye level with his players, counting off the pushups as they hit the ground at the end of each drill. "If I tell you to pick your nose, pick your nose," barked the former Ohio State linebacker as his troops -- a bunch of grade-schoolers -- hung on his every word. "OK, everybody clap!" This group wasn't going to win any ... Read More

From: BleacherReport.com -- The 2002 national championship game is controversial because Ohio State won by a referee’s bad call.  Not a missed call, a bad call. It came four seconds after the game ended, while the Hurricanes were celebrating victory.  If it were a blatant penalty in a big game, a flag would have been thrown immediately. Miami fans agree it was a bad call.  Ohio State fans rationalize that the referees missed a call earlier in the ... Read More

By: Jeremy Whitt (BleacherReport.com) -- SATIRE — Maybe it's the years of winning, maybe it's the lack of a MLB or an NFL franchise in C-bus, whatever it may be, there's certainly a fever amongst Buckeye football fans that surpasses the norm.  Just ask my fiance'.  The added sports package on cable, the hat collection, the jersey's, the stone outside the door that reads 'Buckeye Country', the bickering over wedding dates because they conflict with certain Ohio ... Read More