Austin Spitler News

Ten Ohio State players filed paperwork last month to gauge their NFL Draft stock.

The truth hurt Kurt Coleman. Normally, the senior safety is one of Ohio State's more affable players -- soft-spoken, polite and smiling.

Immokalee High graduate Brian Rolle has filed paperwork for NFL draft evaluation.

Five senior starters should take the field for Ohio State in Friday's Rose Bowl, but the Buckeyes could wind up having to replace several other starters in 2010 and having to rebuild one of the best defenses in the country.

Jeremiah Masoli's ancestors come from a place that is as remote as any on the planet.

Jeremiah Masoli, Oregon's talented junior quarterback who has a 7-1 record in games from Nov.

LOS ANGELES -- It's the glamour and glitz of Oregon's wide-open warp speed spread offense against the blue-collar, win-with-defense mentality of Ohio State.

The Oregon offense is like a kid playing hide and seek, rushing through the countdown and shouting "Ready or not, here I come!" way too early.

Standing in Disneyland, the home of make believe, it's a tough sell trying to talk about being serious and businesslike on Ohio State's trip west to play in the Rose Bowl.

He'd been in Disneyland for half an hour and already Ohio State senior Jim Cordle needed sunglasses.

Chip Kelly walked to the podium in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle and cast a doleful look at the well-dressed mouse standing to his left.

8 BCS-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes and No. 7 BCS-ranked Oregon Ducks will make their first official appearances of the Rose Bowl Game week at 2 p.m. Saturday, December 26, in a ceremony at the holiday-themed Sleeping Beauty's Winter Castle at Disneyland.

COLUMBUS: In a word association game, Ohio State linebacker Austin Spitler was asked to react to Oregon.

Jim Tressel Tressel, writes Moseley, is impressed with Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli.

Oregon's Jeremiah Masoli provides skillful leadership of Oregon's prolific zone-read offense, which earned respectful praise from the Buckeyes on Sunday after their Rose Bowl date was made official.

"Coach Bruce said. 'If you don't play great in the Michigan game, you ARE NOT a great player here at Ohio State,'" said the OSU senior captain from Bellbrook High.

One minute, you've got your hands around Ohio State's throat. The next, you're raising them high in the air.

Ohio State won't change quarterbacks when it faces rival Michigan on Saturday. The Buckeyes won't change their offense, won't change their conservative, field-position strategy, and won't change their propensity to run the ball inside, even when it looks like everyone expects that.

Talented Michigan pair to test Buckeyes COLUMBUS - For the collection of graybeards on the Ohio State defense - those seniors who have been through the Big Ten wars over and over - there is a certain level of discomfort with the impetuous nature of youth.

Bruce Springsteen's call-out to Ohio from Detroit, although a mistake, won't have an impact on Saturday's game, but Michigan's woeful defense probably will.