By Chris Fallica (ESPN.com) -- The top-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes enter tonight's game in Madison (7 ET on ESPN) riding a two-game losing streak as the AP No. 1, having lost to LSU in the 2007 BCS Championship game and to Illinois earlier in the 2007 season. Has anyone lost three straight games when playing as the number one team in the country, you ask? The answer is yes. But it has happened only twice before. And as you ... Read More

From: USAToday.com -- In its annual "College Football Pigskin Preview" edition, Playboy magazine has picked the Ohio State Buckeyes to win the BCS national championship over the Texas Longhorns. The magazine's preview edition, which hits newsstands on Friday, also lists its Top 25 teams (more on that below) and its annual preseason All America Team. If you are a fan of the Buckeyes, act quickly because we expect newsstands in Columbus, Ohio, to sell out rather quickly -- due to ... Read More

From: BleacherReport.com -- The 2002 national championship game is controversial because Ohio State won by a referee’s bad call. Not a missed call, a bad call. It came four seconds after the game ended, while the Hurricanes were celebrating victory. If it were a blatant penalty in a big game, a flag would have been thrown immediately. Miami fans agree it was a bad call. Ohio State fans rationalize that the referees missed a call earlier in the ... Read More

By: Jeff Rapp (AthlonSports.com) -- For a few months in the winter, Terrelle Pryor was not the big man on campus, even after leading Ohio State to a win in the Rose Bowl. That’s because Evan Turner was captivating the college basketball world with his all-around excellence and his amazing comeback from a scary back injury, so much so that he raked in all conceivable recognition as the National Player of the Year. In the process, he also won ... Read More

By: Will Frasure (BleacherReport.com) -- What "The Vest" wants, he usually gets. Jim Tressel has always had a great amount of control when it comes to his Buckeyes. You can see it in his stonewall approach to the media. You can see it in his supervision of his players. But the one facet of Tressel's control that all Buckeye fans have become accustomed to is The Vest's conservative, ball-controlling offensive attack. It hurt him against USC. It helped against Iowa. But usually ... Read More

By: Adam Rittenberg (ESPN.com) -- The dream is dead. A group of Ohio State students, inspired by the World Cup in South Africa, started a campaign to get as many vuvuzelas to The Shoe on Nov. 13 for the Buckeyes' clash with Penn State. They launched a Facebook page that, as of earlier today, had 1,760 people confirming they'd show up along the banks of the Olentangy, vuvuzelas in hand. Another 621 folks are "maybe attending." (If you don't know ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Nebraska's in. So where do the Cornhuskers fit? Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said there were three factors that would determine how the 12-team conference breaks into two six-team divisions for the 2011 season. He's got people working on it. Here's a suggestion, following the three Delany factors: competitive balance, rivalries and geography. Here's my reasoning: 1. Competitive balance is the first factor, so split the four programs that have been clearly above the ... Read More

By: Tim Bielik (BleacherReport.com) -- Expansion fever seems to finally be finding its footing, as Nebraska will in all likelihood find a home in the Big Ten. With the Huskers being one of possibly a handful of teams about to join the Big Ten Conference, one thing that is being largely overlooked is the effect this process has on the rivalries in the conference. The most specific of these might be the greatest rivalry in college football if not sports: Ohio ... Read More

By: Will Frasure (BleacherReport.com) -- Terrelle Pryor’s Rose Bowl performance against the Oregon Ducks looked eerily similar to that of another former Buckeye QB in a BCS bowl game. In 2006, Troy Smith led a bludgeoning over the Notre Dame defense, throwing for 342 yards en route to a 34-20 victory over the Irish. Momentum from the game carried over into the next season—Smith led Ohio State to the national title game and took ... Read More

By: Adam Rittenberg (ESPN.com) -- The 2010-11 Big Ten bowl lineup is now set, with the Insight Bowl moving up in the pecking order and three new games -- Gator, Texas, Dallas Football Classic -- coming aboard. A ton of things can happen between now and Sept. 2, but there's no harm in taking a look at which teams likely will be packing their bags in late December or early January, and which teams will be staying home. The ... Read More

By: Tim Bielik (BleacherReport.com) -- The 2009 season seems so long ago, especially for Ohio State fans who saw their first bowl win since the 2006 Fiesta Bowl against Notre Dame. But with the 2010 college football season looming in September, many fear that a replay of 2006 is in play, where the Buckeyes have national championship expectations. Even though that 2006 team cruised through a weak schedule, there were warning signs all over the place. For example, Northern Illinois ... Read More

From: BigTenNetwork.com -- IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Even though Melanie Nichols struggled on Sunday, the No. 19 Ohio State Buckeyes found a way to pull through and defeat the Iowa Hawkeyes 6-5 in nine innings. Nichols allowed five runs in 4 2/3 innings, but the bullpen allowed no runs and the offense banged out 10 hits to pick up the slack and secure the win for the Buckeyes (33-12). Even though Nichols was battered by the Hawkeyes (23-19), she still ... Read More

By: Evelyn Curry (TheLantern.com) -- Nothing was predictable at Buckeye Field House Wednesday night as the No. 19 Ohio State (31-12) softball team faced the No. 2 Michigan Wolverines for a doubleheader. The Buckeyes split the series with the Wolverines. The Buckeyes took game one, 5-3, and fell to the Wolverines in game two, 4-3. This was the first win for the Buckeyes against the Wolverines since 2003. “We had no fear. We were determined to go in there and battle and compete ... Read More

By MATT MARKEY (ToledoBlade.com) -- COLUMBUS - Prior to the final month of the 2009 football season, Devin Barclay wandered the Ohio State sideline, virtually unknown and untested. The former pro soccer player was the Buckeyes' backup kicker, which does not usually bring a lot of notoriety. A serious knee injury to starter Aaron Pettrey in a lopsided win over New Mexico State vaulted Barclay onto the field and into the spotlight. Two weeks later Barclay would kick 39-yard field goal in overtime that ... Read More

By: Dave Biddle (ESPN.com) -- He is one of the fastest-rising prospects in the country. He may be the best cornerback in the Midwest. Doran Grant (5-foot-11, 175 pounds) is collecting scholarship offers daily. As of press time, the Under Armour All-American had more than 30, including Arizona, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Iowa, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, USC, West Virginia and Wisconsin. As a junior at St. Vincent-St. Mary (Akron, Ohio) in 2009, Grant had 40 ... Read More