OSU-Michigan game time now set

By Ben McLaughlin | Monday, November 9, 2009, 01:08 PM

The Big Ten Conference has announced kickoff time for the Ohio State-Michigan game on Saturday, Nov. 21.

The game will begin at noon and be televised by ABC on a national basis from Ann Arbor.

The Buckeyes beat Penn State on Saturday and face Iowa this week in a key Big Ten game.

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Buckeyes’ Heyward wins national honor

By Brian Kollars | Monday, November 9, 2009, 09:40 AM

This just in:

Walter Camp Football Foundation Names National Offensive and Defensive
Players of the Week Stanford’s Toby Gerhart and Ohio State’s Cameron Heyward earn                 weekly honors

New Haven, Conn. - The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced
its Bowl Championship Subdivision National Offensive and Defensive
Players of the Week for games ending November 7.

About the Award: This is the sixth year that the Walter Camp Football
Foundation will honor one offensive and one defensive player as its
national Bowl Subdivision player of the week during the regular season.
Recipients are selected by a panel of national media members and
administered by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
TOBY GERHART, STANFORD
Senior, Running Back, Norco, CA/Norco
Stanford running back Toby Gerhart set a school single-game record with
223 rushing yards (on 38 carries) as the Cardinal defeated 7th-ranked
Oregon, 51-42.  For the game, Gerhart scored three touchdowns as
Stanford (6-3, 5-2 in Pac 10) became bowl eligible for the first time
since 2001.

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
CAMERON HEYWARD, OHIO STATE
Junior, Defensive Tackle, Suwanee, GA/Peachtree Ridge
Ohio State defensive tackle Cameron Heyward recorded a game-high 11
tackles, including three for losses, and two quarterback sacks as the
Buckeyes defeated Big Ten-rival and 11th-ranked Penn State, 24-7.
Heyward led an Ohio State (8-2, 5-1 in Big Ten) defensive unit that
allowed just 201 yards of total offense.

Walter Camp, “The Father of American football,” first selected an
All-America team in 1889. Camp - a former Yale University athlete and
football coach - is also credited with developing play from scrimmage,
set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the
restriction of play to eleven men per side. The Walter Camp Football
Foundation - a New Haven-based all-volunteer group - was founded in
1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of
selecting annually an All-America team.

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OSU’s Denlinger honored for work in classroom

By Brian Kollars | Thursday, November 5, 2009, 01:25 PM

Four Named Academic All-District Ohio State football players recognized

COLUMBUS - Four members of the Ohio State football squad have been selected to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA academic all-district team for District 4.

Named to the all-district academic second team were offensive guard Bryant Browning, defensive tackle Todd Denlinger, offensive guard Andrew Moses and running back Marcus Williams.

Browning, a junior from Cleveland, Ohio, is a 3.33 marketing student; Moses, from Dublin, Ohio, graduated with a 3.86 gpa in political science. Denlinger, a senior from Troy, Ohio, holds a 3.33 average in construction systems management. Williams, from Ironton, Ohio, has a 3.64 gpa in the physical therapy graduate program.

District 4 includes all colleges in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. The Academic All-America teams will be announced later in November.

No. 12 Ohio State (7-2) visits No. 10 Penn State (8-1) Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Eastern for a Big Ten contest that will be televised by ABC.

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OSU-Iowa kickoff set for 3:30 p.m.

By Kyle Nagel | Sunday, November 1, 2009, 05:26 PM

This just in from the wire …

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Iowa at Ohio State football game on Nov. 14 will kick off at 3:30 p.m., the Big Ten Conference announced on Sunday.

The time was set by ABC, which will be carrying the game on a regional basis.

The eighth-ranked Hawkeyes (9-0, 5-0 Big Ten) are alone in first place in the conference heading into Saturday’s home game with Northwestern. The 15th-ranked Buckeyes (7-2, 4-1) play at No. 11 Penn State on Saturday.

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Tressel on Saine: ‘He said hi to me once’

By Kyle Nagel | Thursday, October 29, 2009, 12:49 PM

Jim Tressel just made a near-perfect description of running back Brandon Saine.

On his weekly radio show, Tressel was asked by a caller about leadership in the offensive huddle. After talking about a few players, Tressel brought up Saine, the Piqua High School product.

“He’s a leader in the way he plays, but he’s not really an outgoing guy,” Tressel said. “He said hi to be once in his first three years here. I’m not sure if he said much more than that.”

That’s a good characterization of Saine’s personality. Even through high school as the best player on his team, Saine was never a rah-rah player. He provided his motivation with his speedy and powerful legs.

He has done the same this season for the Buckeyes. He is second on the team in total yards with 426 yards rushing on 81 carries.

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OSU-Penn State kickoff announced

By Brian Kollars | Monday, October 26, 2009, 11:36 AM

This just in from OSU media relations:

Ohio State-Penn State at 3:30 Will be televised by ABC

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio State-Penn State football game will kick off at 3:30 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, Nov. 7, the Big Ten Conference announced today. The contest will be played at Beaver Stadium in State College and will be televised by ABC on a regional basis. Mirror coverage will be available in other areas on ESPN2.

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Maybe it really is the sweater vest

By Kyle Nagel | Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 08:00 AM

Bill Stewart, the West Virginia football coach, has started wearing a blue sweater vest on the sidelines, and the Mountaineers are 2-0 in those games.

He says he didn’t make the change to mimic Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, who is famous for his sweater vest. Instead, Stewart said, he just needed something to wear over a gold T-shirt:

“I didn’t want us all to look like mustard seeds on the sideline,” he said. “I thought if I had (just) the shirt on (people would say) ‘What’s he wearing, an oxford?’ So I had the Nike sweater vest and I thought I would try it.”

Then Stewart playfully withdrew when asked specifically about the comparison to Tressel:

“Whoa, whoa, Jim Tressel is a good-looking young man,” Stewart said. “He’s aged better than me.”

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