Former OSU QB Art Schlicter being investigated for another gambling issue. Color us shocked...

I've been fortunate to follow the Buckeyes to a number of postseason destinations, but despite three trips to Phoenix (2005 & 2008 Fiesta Bowls, 2006 BCS National Championship Game), and two pilgrimages to Pasadena (1997 & 2009 Rose Bowls), Tuesday marked my first trip to the Big Easy.

Kneejerk review of the Sugar Bowl

Comment with fellow Big Ten fans during OTE's Sugar Bowl Game Thread

Did anyone ever consider that Pryor sold his beat-Michigan gold pants charms because he's already got three of them and it's not fashion conscious to crowd your jewelry box with similarly colored pieces?

OTE briefly looks at the burgeoning Ohio State tattoo scandal.

Buckeye fans are bullish about the team's ability to run all over Willy Robinson's 68th ranked rushing defense -- which measures in the bottom half of rushing defenses the Bucks faced in the Big Ten.

Sure, there's plenty to celebrate in East Lansing -- where the Spartans can call themselves Big Ten champions for the first time since 1990, and Madison, where the post game fireworks looked appropriately similar to the confetti that will litter the floor of the Rose Bowl in five short weeks -- but for now you'd be hard pressed to find a group of Midwesterners more pleased than those that reside in Columbus.

Make no mistake: against premiere competition the Buckeyes have never won when they can't run

Although the league's ceiling (Ohio State) might be a few floors higher than it was in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and its middle tier (Northwestern, Michigan State, Michigan, Penn State) is an opportunistic 11-1, we still lack the single most defining feature of an elite league: multiple power brokers.