By Michael Periatt (TheLantern.com) -- With a $4 million per year salary, new Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer is the highest paid coach in the Big Ten conference, but OSU is spending millions on Meyer's assistants as well. The combined salaries for the assistant coaches Meyer has hired is just under $3.5 million, and some positions have yet to be filled. During Meyer's introductory press conference Nov. 28, he said assembling a top-quality staff was a priority. "In 2005 … I think ... Read More

From: NBC4i.com --- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The 2012 Senior Bowl, to be played Jan. 28 in Mobile, Ala., will have a considerable Ohio State presence as four players – offensive linemen Mike Adams and Mike Brewster, running back Dan Herron and receiver DeVier Posey – have accepted invitations to play in the annual event that annually features the best college seniors. “This will mark the eleventh straight year that Ohio State University has been represented in our game,” ... Read More

From: OhioStateBuckeyes.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio - Braxton Miller was honored today by the College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) as its 2011 National Freshman Performer of the Year. Recipients of the CFPA awards are chosen based on the extent they increase the overall effectiveness of their team. It is the fourth significant award won by Miller, the freshman quarterback from Huber Heights, Ohio, this season. He has previously been named the Big Ten Conference's Thompson-Randle El Freshman of the ... Read More

By Nick Dvorscak (TheLantern.com) -- Boston College head football coach Frank Spaziani announced Friday that former Ohio State coach Jim Bollman has been named the offensive line coach and running game coordinator for the Eagles. "As a former offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes, Jim brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our program," Spaziani said in a Boston College athletic department release. Boston College did not make salary information available for Bollman, who will be replacing ... Read More

By Pat Brennan (TheLantern.com) -- JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — You could use three words to describe the now-departed Ohio State football senior class: good, bad and ugly. For several Buckeye seniors, whose legacy to OSU football might be in question, Monday's season-ending 24-17 loss to Florida in the 2012 Gator Bowl, was an opportunity to reflect on the highs, the lows and the forgettable moments of their OSU careers. Several players, including senior center Michael Brewster, pointed to back-to-back Bowl ... Read More

From:  bloquin.com -- Urban Meyer is a smart guy. You know that. I know. My 95-year-old grandma who thinks “Urban Meyer” is a brand of hot dog knows that. And now the world knows it too. That’s because Meyer is doing something that every college football coach in America should at least consider: Not allowing his players to Tweet. The news spread virally this afternoon, via what platform other than Twitter, when a handful of current Buckeyes took to their ... Read More

From: MarionStar.com -- MANSFIELD - A state representative is planning to introduce a bill that would allow Ohio State to sue a northeast Ohio football booster who is at the center of the NCAA's punishment of the school. Jay Goyal, D-Mansfield, said the bill would allow a university to sue a booster or agent for damages. The NCAA stripped Ohio State of scholarships and barred it from a Big Ten championship and bowl games next year in part because Cleveland-area ... Read More

By: AP via ESPN.com -- JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Florida's special teams came up big in the TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl, scoring twice as the Gators beat Ohio State 24-17 on Monday in a game between Urban Meyer's old team and his future one. Andre Debose returned a kickoff 99 yards -- the longest scoring play in bowl history -- and Chris Rainey blocked a punt that was returned for a touchdown. The speedsters helped the Gators (7-6) avoid their first ... Read More

From : AP via NBC4i.com -- JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Ohio State and Florida have been two of college football's most consistent programs in recent years. Conference championships, big-time bowl games, national titles, the Buckeyes and Gators have experienced it all. This year proved much different for two of the country's power programs. New coaches, personnel issues and losing streaks left Ohio State and Florida with their worst seasons in decades and landed them in the Gator Bowl. One of the two ... Read More

By Bill Livingston (The Plain Dealer) --  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The quarterback of the future at Ohio State, Braxton Miller, succeeds Terrelle Pryor, who traded his own wider horizons for cash and tattoos gained in scandal. In the Gator Bowl Monday against Florida, Miller becomes the first Ohio State freshman quarterback to start a bowl game since Art Schlichter in the 1978 Gator Bowl. Pryor ran by far the most plays at quarterback as a freshman in the Fiesta ... Read More