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LOS ANGELES -- In a Hollywood context, it's the equivalent of carving out one of the biggest budgets in show business, only to crash every time. Ohio State playing in a major bowl game approximates the sick, nauseous sensation you had watching "Gigli," "Ishtar" and "Waterworld," even bordering at times on "From Justin to Kelly" and "Big Momma's House 2." I laugh when the ubiquitous, red-smothered Buckeyes fans insist that their school be called THE Ohio State University.
No superlatives possibly can apply when you're 0-3 in your last three Bowl Championship Series appearances, losing consecutive title games by a combined 79-38 score to Florida and LSU and then losing last year to Texas. Rarely has such a massive, bloated football factory encountered a more dubious big-game rut, to the point that the dapper CEO of this multi-million-dollar corporation, Jim Tressel, constantly must defend himself against the reality that Ohio State is the wounded symbol of a waning, increasingly irrelevant Big Ten Conference.
Hearing him Thursday, on the eve of a Rose Bowl assignment against a favored and sleeker Oregon team, Tressel sounded like a leader in denial. All week, his players have talked passionately about not wanting to lose a fourth staight BCS game, about breaking the Big Ten's six-game losing streak in Pasadena. Coach Sweater Vest?
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