By: Courant.com -- The Samford Bulldogs hit just two of their first 19 shots from the field — and managed only six points in the first half — en route to a 59-22 loss Saturday to Ohio State. "Our offense was a weapon of mass destruction," said Samford coach Jimmy Tillette. It was the buying drugs fewest points scored by a Samford team since the Bulldogs lost 35-21 to Auburn on Feb. 19, 1941. Ohio State (3-0) had not held a team to ... Read More

By: AP via SI.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State is headed for a bowl game. It just may be a while before the Buckeyes find out which one. They concluded the regular season with Saturday's 42-7 beatdown of Michigan. Now comes the waiting. "We can't control anything now," linebacker James Laurinaitis said. "Now we just go home and enjoy Thanksgiving and see what happens." The Buckeyes (10-2) grabbed a piece of the Big Ten title, then sat around hoping that Michigan State could somehow ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland.com) generic drugs without prescription -- Ohio State seniors James Laurinaitis and Malcolm Jenkins will make a trip to Florida regardless of where the Buckeyes wind up in their bowl game. The two will take part in the Home Depot ESPNU Awards on Dec. 11 in Orlando, it was announced today. Release on Award finalists Middle linebacker Laurinaitis is one of three finalists for the Bednarik Award as the nation's best defensive player, along with Penn State defensive end Aaron Maybin ... Read More

BY: TODD PORTER (The Repository) -- BOWL PICTURE Ohio State had a chance to go to the Rose Bowl by beating Michigan and winning a share of the Big Ten championship. However, Penn State nixed the idea. The Nittany Lions win the head-to-head tiebreaker by virtue of their 13-6 win over the Buckeyes and by beating Michigan State on Saturday. Penn State heads to Pasadena to represent the Big Ten. Ohio State will wait to see if it gets a BCS at-large ... Read More

BY: TODD PORTER (CantonRep.com) -- PLAYER OF THE GAME Chris "Beanie" Wells Before "Beanie" Wells ever took a handoff Saturday, he wasn't 100 percent. Wells has battled a foot injury all season. Earlier this week, he tweaked a tender hamstring, and then he pulled it again Saturday in the bitter cold. That didn't stop him from beating up Michigan's defense ... again. Wells ran the ball 15 times for 134 yards, including a TD run of 59 yards for Ohio State's first score and ... Read More

By: Adam Rittenberg (ESPN.com) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State's senior class always will be viewed through two different prisms. Within Buckeye Nation, they will forever remain conquering heroes, a group that dominated the Big Ten Conference and archrival Michigan like none before. Ohio State won outright Big Ten titles (2006, 2007) or shared the championship (2005, 2008) in all four seasons that they played. Ever since the fifth-year seniors set foot on campus back in 2004, Ohio State hasn't lost to Michigan. The ... Read More

By: AP via CantonRep.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — It took five big plays to give Ohio State an unprecedented fifth straight win over rival Michigan. Noted Wolverines nemesis Chris "Beanie" Wells had two of those, including a 59-yard touchdown run and 134 yards rushing to help the 10th-ranked Buckeyes beat their archrivals 42-7 Saturday, the first time in 105 meetings that they've strung together five wins. Ohio State's margin was the biggest by either team in the rivalry since Woody Hayes was prowling and ... Read More

By: TODD PORTER (CantonRep.com) -- COLUMBUS Wounded Wolverines in front of them for four quarters, Ohio State's Buckeyes knew exactly what to do to their rivals from Michigan. Put them out of their misery and feel no pity in doing so. Kinda the same way you'd do a wounded animal. The Buckeyes put the exclamation point on the end of the worst season in Michigan history with a 42-7 win over the hapless Wolverines at Ohio Stadium before 105,564 fans. Michigan and first-year Head ... Read More

BY: TODD PORTER (The Repository) -- COLUMBUS All season long Brian Hartline watched one of his best friends suffer. He watched Ohio State quarterback Todd Boeckman, a fifth-year senior who has sacrificed for the Buckeye football team for almost six years, get sent to the bench. Hartline watched Boeckman, a captain, reduced to player-coach role, almost. Then on a bitter cold afternoon at Ohio Stadium against the Buckeyes' biggest rival, there was a group hug from Boeckman's teammates and the 105,564 fans, who, ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland.com) -- Ohio State and the bowls • Rose Bowl: Ohio State, co-Big Ten champs with Penn State at 7-1, is out because the Nittany Lions win the head-to-head tiebreaker and the Big Ten's automatic bid. If chaos ensues and numerous top teams win and Penn State somehow makes the national title game, then ... well, that won't happen. • Capital One Bowl: This is fairly simple. If Oregon State wins out and takes the Pac-10 title, Ohio State almost certainly ... Read More