By Jeffrey Bathe (BleacherReport.com) -- The Big Ten got 10 bowl bids this season, matching the most ever received by a conference in one season. Unfortunately, like the Big East last March Madness, more bids does not mean that the conference will thrive. While having the most bids is an impressive feat, there are four reasons why the conference ended up with the most embarrassing bowl season on record.   Bottom Half of the Conference In a bowl era where ... Read More

By: Jon Spencer (MansfieldNewsJournal.com) -- It would have been inconceivable at the start of this college football season and even as recently as four weeks ago, maybe even now. But let me throw this out there: If the Buckeyes take a six-game winning streak into the inaugural Big Ten Championship Game, and they continue to ride the senior leadership and workhorse legs of tailback Dan Herron all the way to the Rose Bowl, should "Boom" be crowned the team MVP? Let me repeat for ... Read More

By: Phillip B. Wilson (IndyStar.com) -- One month after he visited Indianapolis to talk to the NCAA about recruiting violations at Ohio State, former Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel is coming back to town for a new part-time job. Indianapolis Colts coach Jim Caldwell announced Friday that the team has hired Tressel as a booth game-day consultant with an emphasis on replay evaluation. Tressel will start Sept. 11, when the Colts open the regular season at Houston. "I've been looking for, for a couple ... Read More

By: Larry Brown (LarryBrownSports.com) -- Former Ohio State quarterback Pandel Savic still supports Jim Tressel and blames Terrelle Pryor and a few others for bringing down the Buckeyes. Savic, who quarterbacked the Buckeyes to a Rose Bowl win in 1949, shared his thoughts with The Columbus Dispatch. “First of all, we all love (former coach Jim) Tressel, and as far as I’m concerned, he got shafted because of the actions of (former quarterback Terrelle) Pryor, for one, and a few others,” Savic ... Read More

Former Ohio State wide receive Ray Small claims to have received car discounts and sold Big Ten championship rings as well as other memorabilia for cash. "Everyone was doing it," Small told The Lantern, the OSU student newspaper. Now one would have to wonder if Small has an axe to grind. After all, Small spent much of his college football career being benched, suspended or disciplined for various team violations. Many OSU fans will recall Small, who had 61 catches for 659 yards and three ... Read More

From: ZanesvilleTimesRecorder.com -- Now that Ohio State has surrendered the high moral ground to Michigan, and will continue to do so as long as Jim Tressel remains in Columbus, the Wolverines have their sights set on the field. But in that endeavor, new coach Brady Hoke has a tremendous task ahead. Hoke inherited a program that has made an art form of looking good while losing bad. Former coach Rich Rodriguez turned loose an eye-catching offense that won just six ... Read More

BY: Matt Markey (ToledoBlade.com) -- COLUMBUS -- Etienne Sabino made the most difficult move a football player can consider. He took himself out of the game -- all of the games -- in the 2010 season. Sabino, one of the top-rated linebackers in the country when he came to Ohio State three years ago, saw the abundance of talent at his position as the Buckeyes prepared for last season, so he chose to sit out the full year. That ... Read More

From: NFL.com -- Former Ohio State quarterback Art Schlichter is the focus of an investigation by local and federal authorities centering on a scheme to sell dozens of Super Bowl tickets at a high profit, The Columbus Dispatch reported on Saturday. Schlicter, a former All-American who led the Buckeyes to the Rose Bowl in 1979, is a notorious gambling addict who has served time in 44 prisons or jails since 1994, mainly for fraud and forgery. Law enforcement officials ... Read More

By Eugene McCormick (ClevelandLeader.com) -- This puts bulletin board material to shame. If Ohio State and TCU ever meet on the gridiron, I am sure Jim Tressel will point to billboards that a TCU alumni group has put up all over Columbus. The signs read "Congratulations to TCU for their BCS Rose Bowl Victory - Little Sister of the Poor". That mocks OSU President E. Gordan Gee who claimed TCU plays a weak schedule and didn't deserve to play in ... Read More

By: Jon Gilbert (BleacherReport.com) -- Fresh off a Sugar Bowl victory over Arkansas, Ohio State begins looking to next season. Unfortunately for the Buckeyes, they could be without five key parts of that Sugar Bowl win: the Fab 5. Four offensive starters—quarterback Terrelle Pryor, running back Dan Herron, wide receiver DeVier Posey and offensive tackle Mike Adams—and defensive end Solomon Thomas were suspended for the first five games of the 2011 regular season for selling personal items and ... Read More