Woody Hayes (I think) once said that his two favorite teams were OSU and whoever plays Michigan this week. That was convenient to say when national championship voting and placement in the BCS is not up for grabs. Now that Strength of Schedule and looking at the opponents a team beats is coming more into play – similar to seeding March Madness, I believe OSU fans need to take a different approach. Root for OSU and root for each Big 10 team’s opponents to lose each week. The best thing that can happen is that the Big 10 develops a national image similar to the SEC of a dominating conference. But when Michigan loses to Utah, Illinois gets embarrassed by Missouri, Michigan State gets crushed by Cal, the national image of the Big Ten is that the teams can beat up on the patsies like Youngstown State, or Penn State running up the score on Coastal Carolina – but can’t win the big games when it matters.

I just hope that Michigan can beat Notre Dame and OSU beats USC – this may silence some critics.

Another thing that I found interesting was that many of the freshmen recruits were playing when Terrelle Pryor was in the game. Rather than have him play with the first string, the Senator gave everyone playing time at the same time. I thought this was good and bad – this may have led to the initial field goal rather than a touchdown in Pryor’s first series of play. Regardless, though, he was able to lead them to a TD in the 2nd half.

Another touching moment came when Beanie returned to the sidelines – I wish i had a videocamera for it, but it seemed like 2/3 of the team huddled around him when he made it to the bench. It seems like the Bucks are a close-knit group this year – after enduring about 18 months of humiliation at the hands of the national media, they seem to be closing ranks.