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 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

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 Cameron Weimer via TheLantern.com --  Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer announced the post-spring practice two-deep depth chart, but also gave his input on topics concerning the Buckeyes and the current state of the Bowl Championship Series. Depth Chart OSU players were well aware that their playing time would be determined by what they accomplished during spring ball and the results of the players’ work was made public Wednesday. “We made a big emphasis with our players aboutspring practice is not just fundamentals, development ... Read More

From: MaxPreps.com --  Woodbridge (Va.) defensive Da'Shawn Hand and Liberty County (Hinesville, Ga.) linebacker Raekwon McMillan have a good deal in common. Both were U.S. Air Force Sophomore All-Americans this fall after highly-productive 10th-grade seasons. Both are emerging as national recruits, and both have offers from Ohio State (among many others.) Could the recruitment of Hand and McMillan be more intertwined than would normally be the case for a player from Northern Virginia and southwestern Georgia? Earlier this week, McMillan hinted at the possibility of ... 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