B1G 2011 // Ohio State Cocktail Party Preview

In 1821, the Caledonian Mercury wrote of the British Empire, “On her dominions the sun never sets.”  It’s a quote I might have used to paraphrase this preview had I been writing it in late-February.  Since then, of course, the gray sky over Columbus has fallen. James Patrick Tressel, a coach who most regard as one of the top two in the program’s history is gone.  Lost in his wake is the highest profile quarterback in modern Buckeye history as well as the stability that carried Ohio State football to eight BCS bowls and three national championship games.

Read that sentence again.  It’s representative of what the scarlet became in the Aughts.

[Conversation pointer courtesy of Scout.com: The Buckeyes have gone to six straight BCS games, won 66 games over those six years, and won the 2010 Rose Bowl and the 2011 Sugar Bowl. During that span they lost 11 games and just two of them – 2009 losses to USC and Purdue – came to teams that didn’t end up…
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