All the big Ohio State news in one helpful place. “When we get to the 20s, we’ll schedule some Ohio schools. It will happen” -Ohio State AD Gene Smith, via USA TODAY The Buckeyes only have two other games currently scheduled in the future against other Ohio schools:There’s a 2016 showdown with Bowling Green, and a 2019 game against the Cincinnati Bearcats. After not playing an in-state foe from 1933 to 1991, Ohio State had faced one in 18 of the last 23 seasons. With the move to a nine-game Big Ten schedule in 2016, and with the presumed focus on strength of schedule for the college football playoff providing an incentive to toughen up schedules, other Ohio squads aren’t on future schedules as often, but Gene Smith says that won’t be the case forever. The Buckeyes don’t have any open schedule spots until 2017, when they need a third team to join Oklahoma and UNLV. In the 2020s, the schedule is pretty open, with only a road game at Oregon scheduled in 2020 and a home date in 2021. 2022 and 2023 will feature matches with Notre Dame and Texas. Now take a moment and ponder how old you will be when these games happen, and contemplate your own fragile mortality. “Ohio State’s 2011 basketball team was one of the best to never win a national title” -SI.com The good folks at SI have made a 16 team bracket of some of the best college basketball teams to never win a title, and the 2011 squad, featuring Jared Sullinger, Aaron Craft, Jon Diebler and a 32-3 record, made the cut. Buckeye fans remember that even as that team ran roughshod on the Big Ten en route to a #1 AP ranking, an unlucky game against a Kentucky team stocked with future pros proved to be their undoing in the tournament. This squad is unlikely to advance far in SI’s tournament, as the Buckeyes were named a #16 seed against the #1 1991 UNLV Runnin’ Rebels, one of the best college basketball teams ever. …
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