Buckeyes have tattered psyches (AP)

Ohio State: THE Runner Up University

Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football found this 1/8/2008 on bleacherreport.com

In what has become somewhat of a tradition, an Ohio State men’s team lost yet another national title last night, making that the fourth runner up trophy THE university has accepted in one calendar year.    The football team has ...

Pat Forde is an Ignorant Hack (Notes on Ohio State)

FilteringCraig posted 1/8/2008 from www.filteringcraig.com

Memo to the national media. This was a rebuilding year for Ohio State and they over-achieved. LSU was the better team, but let's not act like this year's Ohio State team is the same one that lost to Florida last year. Troy Smith, Ted Ginn, and Anthony Gonzalez were not on this Buckeyes team.

Crushed Nuts

Hugging Harold Reynolds posted 1/8/2008 from huggingharoldreynolds.blogspot.com

In general, I suppose it does speak to the relative strength of a school's football program when it reaches the BCS national championship game two years in a row. But for Ohio State's sake, they can only hope that's the last time in a long while they'll have to play in the title game. For the second year in a row, they got pushed around, run past, and bowled over by a superior SEC opponent.

Television Ratings for BCS National Championship down 17.2% From Last Year

Maury posted 1/8/2008 from bizoffootball.com

Ratings, once again, dip for the BCS Championship. Think it's down this year, you should see how far it's down since '06

Too Easy

nittanywhiteout posted 1/8/2008 from nittanywhiteout.blogspot.com

Ohio State's inability to win the big one affects more than the Buckeyes.