The Buckeyes took their Spring Game show on the road to Cincinnati on Saturday, where 37,643 fans watched Braxton Miller lead his Scarlet team to a 31-14 win over the Gray squad at Paul Brown Stadium, in the final spring practice of the season.  

With Ohio Stadium under repair this spring, the staff chose to travel a couple hours down I-71 to spread some Buckeye good will in the state’s southwest corner, and the Queen City responded in kind. (In a similar game going on at the same time in Ann Arbor, OSU’s rivals drew an estimated 18,000 in their home town.)

Much of the fan interest centered on Miller, the Buckeyes’ junior quarterback. The coaches have been talking about the improvement evident this spring in the play of the 2012 Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year, and Miller flashed some of it for them on Saturday. He connected on 16 of 25 passing for 217 yards and two touchdown passes, and rushed for a third TD, all while wearing the black, non-contact jersey.

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I’m getting reports out of Columbus that the Buckeyes team Easter Egg hunt resulted in very few baskets being filled for the first couple hours of the event. Those reports indicate that there was a panicked rush toward the end of the hunt for players to find their eggs and complete the mission, but that they never did quite get the job done and gather all the eggs.

I’m also hearing that despite excellent effort and the ability to see eggs everywhere, PG guard Aaron Craft couldn’t manage to get his eggs in a container all day and when all was said and done Craft had on filled about two of the twelve spaces in  the carton.

It’s the Weekend Wrap.

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I’ve been watching non-stop college hoops for pretty much the last 80 hours so forgive me if this Weekend Wrap is a little tournament-centric. From the predictable Georgetown and Gonzaga collapses to the Buckeyes heart-stopping win Sunday, the tournament’s first four days didn’t disappoint. Sure, you can tell me how the overall quality of play has regressed over the years given the best and brightest move on to the NBA after just a year in college, but the tournament is about excitement and there is still plenty of it each March.

So let’s talk some Buckeyes, some Aaron Craft and some NCAA Tournament before the calendar and sporting schedule demands something different.

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Spring football is underway in Columbus and the expectations of Ohio State football are the customary ones. As Urban Meyer begins his second season at OSU, the next game he loses will be his first, and the talk of a second consecutive unbeaten season is everywhere. Which is of course, nuts.

The 2013 schedule is manageable, if not embarrassingly soft on paper, but Buckeye fans anticipating 13-0 (counting a B1G title game win) should remind themselves just how difficult it is to pull off an unbeaten season in today’s game. The Alabama Crimson Tide, supposedly the greatest assemblage of football talent and coaching prowess since the ‘72 Dolphins, couldn’t manage it in either one of their back to back national championship years.

One out of 126 FBS programs went undefeated a year ago.

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