This really should have been a lousier offseason, right?
The Buckeyes entered it coming off what we used to despondently refer to as another Cooper Twofer. That ancient disease was statistically eradicated after the 1990s. Unblemished Septembers and Octobers screeching to a sad halt at the end of the show was the only 20th century infrastructure Y2K was able to take down.
We didn't miss it. It's been gone so long a sizeable chunk of the tribe was born since then.
But in January we came off two seasons in a row suffering from that curse - even babies have suffered exposure now.