Winning national championships is hard. All one has to do is look back through the years at loaded Ohio State teams that didn’t get the job done to see that. Or you could look at Jim Tressel’s one-for-three in title games. Seriously, when was the last time Jim Tressel won only one of three anythings?
Winning back-to-back national championships must be doubly hard. It’s easy to point at how much talent Ohio State has coming back—and add in a ridiculous athlete like Braxton Miller who is about to embark on an assault on the H-back position—and say, “yup, we got this.