Fresh off his move from Columbus, OH to Charleston, SC ... where he will train how to commandeer a nuclear sub for the U.S. Navy ... Furls checks in with his latest. And in it, he debunks the recruting class rankings that we've been seeing all over the web for the last month. Furls has seen too many 5* guys like Justin Zwick and Mike D'Andrea bust and too many 2* and 3* guys like A.J. Hawk and Troy Smith excel to puch much creedence in these rankings. A solid back in the saddle column from the steady Furls.

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The Buckeyes beat Michigan a couple nights ago, and no one even seemed to notice. In his latest, Gary Benz makes a good point. As great as the NCAA basketball tournament is, it really makes the regular season and matchups like that one meaningless and without drama. Gary also notes that for as much heat as Division I college football catches for its BCS bowl system, in it, they have a process that makes every last regular season contest compelling.

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Mike Furlan is one of about twelve Buckeye fans who actually watched the National Championship Game a second time. He thought it would be therapeutic; he was wrong, it was equally painful the second time. While Furls doesn't get wrapped up in breaking down the game again in his latest, he does take some time to look back on the season as a whole. And also to look ahead to next season, when a favorable schedule could really help the Buckeyes surprise some people despite massive losses to the NFL on the offensive side of the ball.

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I'm a Jim Tressel fan. Have been ever since his first championship team at Youngstown State in 1991, with Ray Isaacs running the option. I love how he respects and reveres the traditions at tOSU, how he always seems to have a game plan to beat Michigan, and how he has turned the Buckeyes back into relatively consistent national-title contenders. But the honest truth was, on January 8 Jim Tressel got out-coached, very, very, badly. Not to put too fine a point on it, Urban Meyer coached him right out of that brand-new building in Glendale.

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