By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Notes from Jim Tressel's meeting with reporters today, his only local availability during this bye week * Tressel said starting linebacker Ross Homan, who has missed the last two weeks with a foot injury, is running on land, after previously only running in a pool, and Tressel would like to hope he'll be ready to take part in practice Sunday when the team starts its preparation for Penn State. Backup linebacker ... Read More

By: Travis Kozek (TheLantern.com) -- New stadium, same result for the Buckeyes. Playing at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minn., for the first time, Ohio State (8-1, 4-1) continued its dominance of Minnesota Saturday, pummeling the Golden Gophers, 52-10. In front of a modest crowd with mixed allegiance, OSU extended its supremacy over Minnesota (1-8, 1-4) to eight straight games and wins in 24 of the last 25 meetings between the two squads. Opening the game with a 46-yard scoring drive capped ... Read More

By: Matt Hayes (SportingNews.com) -- Take a moment to breathe this in: Previously unbeaten Michigan State, utterly exposed in a rout of a loss at Iowa, is a lock for 11 wins and a piece of its first Big Ten championship in two decades. Forget what that means about the Big Ten, and understand that the best championship race in college football is in the storied league’s last season without a championship game. Four teams—Michigan State, Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio State—could all win the ... Read More

From: AP via Dayton Daily News -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — What’s brewing with the Ohio State football team ... BUCKEYES BUZZ: An Associated Press report shows several groups are working with the NCAA to find new ways to enforce rules prohibiting improper agent-related benefits for student-athletes. Among the possibilities is including financial penalties that reach into a player’s potential NFL career. The NFL, NFL Players Association and sports agents are among those involved in talks with the NCAA that ... Read More

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: 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: 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

The September 18 meeting between Ohio State and Ohio University will kickoff at noon the Big Ten Conference announced today. The game will be the seventh meeting between in-state rivals and will be played at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. The game will be televised on the Big Ten Network. The teams last met two years ago, with the Buckeyes making a second half comeback to defeat the Bobcats. The Buckeyes have won all six previous meetings with the Bobcats. Five other 2010 Ohio State games ... Read More

By: Jeff Seemann (Fox Sports Ohio) -- March 18, 2008 was a big day at The Ohio State University. It was the day Terrelle Pryor officially signed his letter of intent to play football for the Buckeyes. It was also the day OSU fans began their dreams of not only returning to the National Championship Game, but actually winning it. Pryor was the prized jewel of the 2008 class. He skipped the National Letter Of Intent Day in ... Read More