What Would Woody Think of Pryor?

By: Michael Rosenberg (NYTimes.com) –

This weekend, Terrelle Pryor will try to scale a mountain that always sits in front of Big Ten teams, no matter where they turn. He will try to beat a highly ranked team from Southern California.

Ohio State’s recent struggles in marquee out-of-conference games have been well-documented. They were drilled by Florida in one Bowl Championship Series title game, beaten by Louisiana State in another and humiliated by U.S.C., 35-3, last fall. But those are just the latest chapters in a story that is more than 30 years old.

In the 1970s, Ohio State and its archrival Michigan consistently went to the Rose Bowl as favorites, only to lose most of those games, usually in excruciating fashion. It got to the point, like it has now, where people wondered if the Big Ten would ever win one of those games. From 1970 to 1980, only one Big Ten quarterback led his team to a Rose Bowl victory. His name is Cornelius Greene, and he had a lot in common with Pryor.

Like Pryor, Greene was a flashy black quarterback who supplanted a successful older starter. Last year, Pryor unseated Todd Boeckman, who had led Ohio State to the 2008 B.C.S. championship game. In 1973, Greene got the job over the senior….

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