Top-ranked Ohio State's players are well aware of what they accomplished last week in beating defending national champion and then-No. 2 Texas.
What gets college football players through the long and punishing hours of conditioning, weightlifting, practice and planning are thoughts of a perfect season and a trip to the national championship game.
The University of Texas Longhorns, worth $92 million, was football's most profitable team last season, earning $46.2 million, of which $4.7 million went to academics.
"My freshman class, how can we say that we're the best class in history when we haven't beat Ohio State?" Hart asks. "You can't. To put everything together you have to have a win against Ohio State and you have to win a bowl game."
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I've just learned that there was a bomb scare in the Baker Systems Engineering building at the Ohio State University. I work in the Central Classroom Building, which is next door - right now there are police everywhere and lots of yellow tape.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new synthetic playing surface (Field Turf) currently is being installed at Ohio Stadium. The old grass field was removed shortly after the 2007 Spring Game and donated to Columbus City Parks.
Last week finalcut seeded this article about the worst franchises in sports. ESPN rated the top 46 worst teams to root for across all professional American sports, and on ESPN's list being terrible isn't the worst possible fate.
For the seven and under set, the game is just a distraction from the main attraction: the loopy, perpetually energized anthropomorphized animal crackers that bound along the sidelines and stadium aisles like Underdog hopped up on androgen.
Feet dangling above the floor, the font of aged wisdom leaned way back in his office chair and punctuated his words about recruiting with laughter that could melt a polar ice cap.
Any thoughts or Predictions? Please feel free to comment. I like the Buckeyes in this one.
It's easy to be overwhelmed by American college football's ever-expanding postseason. At the rate they keep tossing new games into the mix by 2025 the bowl population will be bigger than Bowling Green Kentucky.
"The main job of the BCS is to place the best football players in the nation in a single game in order to decide the national champion," said BCS chairman Mike Coleman.
Hopefully he'll have a TV in his cell, so he can watch the game on January 8th. TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Former Ohio State football star Maurice Clarett has been transferred to a prison where he could spend the remainder of his sentence.
Formula for a rematch? Top-ranked Ohio State's victory over No. 2 Michigan drew the biggest television audience for any regular-season game in 13 years.
Wide eyes and gaping jaws. Accusing fingers and pugnacious guffaws. A knuckle sandwich. In Columbus, Ohio, these three apparently unrelated events have something very real in common: if you dare to inquire about Woody Hayes, these are the only replies you can expect.
Let me start by saying I hate both Ohio State and Michigan and if, on Judgment Day, both could end up in purgatory, I'd dance in the clouds.
Are you excited about the Michigan/Ohio State game on Saturday?
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Michigan fans traveling to Columbus, Ohio, for Saturday's game between No. 1 Ohio State and the second-ranked Wolverines are being offered some safety tips before entering Buckeyes country.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It's simply called "The Game," perhaps the greatest rivalry in college football. On Saturday, the Ohio State-Michigan game, or Michigan-Ohio State game depending on your rooting interest, means even more than usual.
GO BUCKS! COLUMBUS, Ohio -- In NFL locker rooms, middle-school study halls and taverns across the country, everybody is talking about Saturday's showdown between No. 2 Michigan and No. 1 Ohio State.
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COLUMBUS, OH--The Ohio State Buckeyes routed the Minnesota Gophers on Saturday 44-0 to improve their record to 9-0 and solidify their reputation as the strongest team in the country.
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And still Ohio State was struggling to stay No. 1. Meanwhile, Penn State coach Joe Paterno was struggling with No. 2. And there goes Joe Paterno, bolting for the locker room in the second quarter. Ahem.