By Michael Chung (BleacherReport.com) --  It was November 20, 2011. Ohio State had been marred in a recruiting "crisis of confidence." The once-prominent B1G team, who had a fence around Ohio, was lacking in star power from their home state, let alone nationally. Bill Kurelic believed Ohio State was not in the top 20 nationally. But things have changed and have changed in a hurry. The number one player in the state of Ohio, Adolphus Washington, committed to play ... 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

By Kyle Meinke (annarbor.com) --Remember when Brady Hoke was last summer's recruiting darling? That is fading into a distant memory, thanks to the Big Ten's newest coach. Urban Meyer was hired at Ohio State three weeks ago, and began his tenure with such a recruiting flurry that the Buckeyes' class shot up to No. 5 in the nation this week, according to Scout. Texas remains No. 1 overall and Michigan is holding steady at No. 2 on the strength of Hoke's hot summer, which ... Read More

By: AP via newsok.com --  WASHINGTON — Proponents of a college football playoff are launching a new national campaign aimed at taking down the BCS. The "We Want a Playoff Now" campaign was introduced Thursday on Capitol Hill. It includes the lobbying firm The Moffett Group, headed up by former Rep. Toby Moffett, D-Conn., and the communications firm, New Partners. Along with that effort, two congressmen are forming the Congressional Collegiate Sports Caucus. The congressmen, Texas Republican Joe Barton and Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen, ... Read More

By: DAVE HACKENBERG (ToledoBlade.com) -- It is hard to determine exactly what Urban Meyer will be paid to coach Ohio State's football team for the next six years. But if he is still on the job when the original contract he agreed to last week expires on January 31, 2018, my best guess is it will be a minimum of $27 million. The maximum? That's anybody's guess. Add in the academic bonuses, the checks OSU will cut in the ... Read More

By: Darren Everson (WSJ.com) -- Vacating games sounds like such an empty penalty. In Ohio State's case, though, it actually would have some statistical meaning. If the NCAA orders Ohio State to vacate victories from the 2010 season because of the Jim Tressel scandal—a strong possibility—it not only would cost the Buckeyes their share of the Big Ten title, it also would alter college football's all-time standings quite a bit. Currently third in winning percentage, Ohio State would drop ... Read More

By: AP via Bloomberg.com -- WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.  — E'Twaun Moore scored a career-high 38 points to lead No. 11 Purdue past No. 2 Ohio State 76-63 on Sunday, capping a week that saw the top four teams in the AP Top 25 lose a game. Moore tied a career high with seven 3-pointers. He surpassed 2,000 points during a flurry of 13 in the final 3:49 of the first half, becoming the fifth player in school history to ... Read More

After being  the unanimous No. 1 for the past three weeks, Ohio State dropped to second in the AP poll and third in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll after losing its first game of the season Saturday at Wisconsin.   The Buckeyes, loosing to the Badgers 71-67, hold on to the AP No. 2 stop by just one point while receiving 14 first place votes.  OSU received three first-place votes in the other poll. The Buckeyes will match-up against Big Ten foe Michigan ... Read More

From: ESPN.com -- There's no question among the coaches who vote: Ohio State is No. 1. The Buckeyes drew all 31 first-place votes in the ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll released Monday. Pittsburgh vaulted to second from fourth as Duke also jumped two spots to third. The Blue Devils were followed by San Diego State and Connecticut. The Panthers will be tested Monday night when they host No. 14 Notre Dame (7 p.m. ET, ESPN). Kansas dropped to sixth after a loss to Texas, ranked eighth. The ... Read More

By: Harry King (TheCabin.net) -- LITTLE ROCK — Cam Newton, the man in Vegas said, is what Terrelle Pryor was supposed to be. He meant that Pryor had not lived up to advance billing as an unstoppable dual threat quarterback who was to put Ohio State on his shoulders and deliver the Buckeyes to the mountaintop. Labeling Pryor a disappointment requires that the one passing judgment ignore Ohio State’s 31-5 record and three straight BCS bowl games, including the Jan. 4 ... Read More