Trying to get Buckeye Dan Wismar's head in some condition to objectively evaluate the Buckeyes is an annual exercise that he's not sure he will ever really accomplish completely. But with the 2009 season fast approaching, we coerced Dan to give our readers his thoughts on how this season will play out for the Bucks. And he relented. So, without further adieu, Buckeye Dan gives us the best damn Ohio State preview in the land as we get ready for the start of the college football season.

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It may be two-and-a-half months until the opening kickoff of the 2009 season, but that doesn't mean it's too early to talk a little college football. With that in mind, enter Jesse Lamovsky to take a quick look at Ohio State's '09 schedule, opponent-by-opponent. It all starts with the Naval Academy on September 5th, and the mega-rematch with the USC Trojans at The Shoe on September 12th. And ends in The Big House on November 21st against that team up north. Jesse breaks it down for us.

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College football is increasingly a 24/7/365 enterprise, what with winter recruiting, spring games, summer workouts and the fall schedule. The official end of the season is pretty definitive...the end of the 34th and final bowl game in January. The official beginning is harder to pin down. Buckeye Dan Wismar figures for lots of fans of the game, it's right about now. And in his latest installment of Buckeye Leaves, Dan begins to look ahead to the '09 season with an absolutely fantastic early season preview.

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Once again this year, college football's September centerpiece will be the Ohio State-USC game. But the national spotlight may be focused more on the USC athletic department and school administration than on the Trojans' performance on the field. Three years of sports program scandals at the university appear to be finally coming to a head, and there are widespread expectations that USC will soon be slapped down hard by the NCAA. Buckeye Dan talks about it in his latest.

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