* One of Ohio State’s Tatgate guys made the play that won us the Sugar Bowl.
* All of the Tatgate guys made good on their promise to come back next season. And for some reason, I’m feeling oddly optimistic about 2011.
* At the moment, anyway.
* We will start paying attention to basketball; you may have noticed that Matta’s team is off to a decent start.
* When they beat Iowa the other night wearing the gray unis, I swear I could hear my father grumbling about them from 200 miles away.
I’m happy to have basketball — and, yes, the NHL — to help me cope with the realization that college football is done for a while. But that hasn’t kept me from having a minor existential crisis based on the damn Sunday football. You can read about that over here; I’d be happy to hear whatever thoughts you might have.
And in the meantime: National Signing Day is just a few weeks away.
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