By: Ryan Burns (BleacherReport.com) -- Since their humiliating defeat versus USC, The Ohio State Buckeyes have rattled off three straight wins, including last Saturday's nail-biter versus Wisconsin. This Saturday, the Buckeyes play host to the 2-3 Purdue Boilermakers in a Big Ten game that Ohio State must win. Chris Wells has returned from his nagging toe injury and looks to be the running back everyone thought he would be heading into this season. The former Heisman hopeful runs hard and gets ... Read More

By: AP via WhioTv.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- What's brewing today with the 2008 Ohio State Buckeyes ... BUCKEYES BUZZ:@ At this rate, the Buckeyes are going to run out of players against Purdue (3:34 p.m. kickoff on Saturday). In addition to a mounting list of injuries to some of its most important players, Ohio State is also hoping that TB Chris "Beanie" Wells has no aftereffects to sickness he encountered this week. He's already missed three games due to that foot injury. "He ... Read More

By: Adam Rittenberg (ESPN.com) -- The calls for change started around 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 13, as Ohio State fans watched the same group of players step onto a national stage at the L.A. Coliseum and have the same type of disheartening result. Buckeye Nation wanted to see the kids play, and they're starting to get their wish. Quarterback Terrelle Pryor will make his fourth career start Saturday against Purdue (ABC, 3:30 p.m. ET), and he won't be the only freshman playing a ... Read More

By: AP via SportingNews.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- In marked contrast to his head coach, Ohio State offensive tackle Alex Boone isn't afraid to let it all hang out. Ask him a question -- any question -- and he'll offer an honest, usually funny, answer. He vows that coach Jim Tressel has never told him what to say and not to say. "Me? No. No, they know I'm pretty respectful about people and things," he said this week during preparations for Saturday's ... Read More

Boilers will play first game there since 2003, so no one on roster has experienced it By: Tom Kubat (Lafayette Journal & Courier) -- WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- They've been to Michigan Stadium and Notre Dame Stadium. They witnessed "white outs" at Penn State and "jump around" festivities at Wisconsin's Camp Randall Stadium. Purdue football players have been a lot of places . . . but they've never experienced the Horseshoe. "This is my first trip," fifth-year senior Ryan Baker said about Saturday's game at ... Read More

By: Kristofer Green (BleacherReport.com) -- Questions surround the 2008 Basketball Buckeyes. Who will replace Jamar Butler? Can B.J. Mullins follow in the footsteps of Greg Oden and Kosta Koufos to be the next great OSU center? Will David Lighty step up and be the leader of this team? Has Jon Diebler regained his shooting touch from his high school days and be able to be the shooting threat the Buckeyes so desperately need? The 2007 Buckeyes rebounded nicely from the disappointment of not making the NCAA ... Read More

Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - ILLINOIS: Juice Williams single-handedly beat Michigan on Saturday, throwing for 310 yards and two TDs while rushing for 121 yards and two more scores as the Illini whipped the Wolverines in Ann Arbor, 45-20. The 45-spot put up by Illinois was the most ever scored by the team against Michigan and it was the most point scored by a UM opponent since 1991. WR Arrelious Benn finished with six catches for 122 yards, helping Illinois outgain ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland.com) -- Columbus- In 2006, Beanie Wells was ready to start for Ohio State as a freshman. He had the legs, the shoulders and the stiffarm, but the Buckeyes didn't have the need. Junior Antonio Pittman started and Wells averaged eight carries and 44 yards per game behind him. "Physically I was ready," Wells, who was the No. 3 recruit in the nation that year, said Tuesday. "And with playing behind him a few games, my mental aspect ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland.com) -- Ohio State left tackle Alex Boone is waiting for the Buckeyes to move up in the polls. "That has surprised me," Boone said Tuesday. "Every week I'm kind of like, where are we? And people are like, 14th, and then 14th again and now 12th, and I'm kind of like, man, I thought everybody was losing in front of us? But at the same time anything can happen. Each year the BCS shakes out different and weird." (If you're ... Read More