Team: Ohio State Buckeyes
Stadium: Ohio Stadium
Conference: Big Ten
Sport: College Football
Background: The Ohio State University, or simply Ohio State or OSU, is one of the largest state universities in the United States, consisting of the main campus in Columbus, Ohio, and branch campuses located in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Gibraltar Island (http://www.sg.ohio-state.edu/SLAB) (Stone Lab), and Newark. The university was founded in 1870 following its establishment under Abraham Lincoln's Land-Grant Act.

The Columbus campus is currently the second largest single campus in the USA, after The University of Texas at Austin; in 2002 there were 48,477 students enrolled at the Columbus campus. [1] (http://www.osu.edu/osutoday/stuinfo.html) The university is noted especially for its linguistics department and colleges of business, education, and engineering. The medical school is home to the James Cancer Hospital, a leading cancer research institute. The university also holds the honor of being the best public university in the state of Ohio as compiled by the U.S. News and World Report magazine in their annual college rankings special issue. The Columbus campus is also home to the renowned Wexner Center for the Arts. The current president is Karen A. Holbrook, Barbara R. Snyder is the Provost.