First to the front: Ohio State, rarely spectacular but never boring, is one win from completing its most improbable season ever with a national title. (College Football).

Here we go again. It's late, Ohio State barely is holding on, and this joint is one play from detonating with unbridled joy or succumbing to utter despair. Why can't they just make things easy? Why can't the Buckeyes, one of two unbeaten teams in college football, make it look so good and so right that every numskull who has a forum can't doubt their status? That would bring some semblance of order to what has become the most improbable season in the storied history of the program.

Instead, we're sitting here with one second left for That School From Up North to break 105,000 hearts. Then Buckeyes safety Will Allen does what we've come to expect over the last ...