Just as they have since 1890, the Ohio State Buckeyes will play football this fall. It will be a different sort of season, though. Due to the Buckeyes' one-year postseason ban, there's already an eye toward 2013.
OSU figures to be pretty good in 2012, a top-20 sort of team (they are No. 20 in College Football Live's countdown); it could be exceptionally good in 2013. Think of Ohio State, now with Urban Meyer running the program, as potentially next year's version of the USC Trojans: left in perceived ruin by NCAA sanctions, then producing a quick rebound thanks to some combo of talent and coaching.
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Travis Haney
ESPN Insider• Joined ESPN as Insider's national college football writer in April 2012
• Previously wrote for The Oklahoman and The Post and Courier
ABOUT THIS BLOG
Travis HaneyTravis Haney joined ESPN in April 2012 as Insider's national college football writer. He previously covered the University of Oklahoma Sooners for The (Oklahoma City) Oklahoman for one season, and the University of South Carolina Gamecocks for The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier for four. Additionally, Haney has contributed since 2003 to ESPN publications and projects, including ESPN The Magazine.
A native of Cleveland, Tenn., Haney's initial introduction to a college football cathedral was Neyland Stadium. He later graduated from the University of Tennessee, in 2003, and has spent time covering the Volunteers, the University of Georgia, Clemson University, and other schools. Safe to say, football, and football in the South, was injected into his bloodstream at a young age.
Haney is the author of three books -- Gamecock Glory and Gamecock Encore, which chronicled the South Carolina baseball team's run to the 2010 and 2011 national championships, and State of Disunion, a historical look at the Clemson-South Carolina football rivalry that he co-wrote with Larry Williams.
Haney resides in Charlotte, N.C. You can follow him on Twitter here.
