They did it. We did it. You did it! This weekend the Buckeyes finally graduate from the longest offseason ever.
Only SMU waited more time between football games - and that was because it earned two years' worth of death penalties in the late 1980s. Ohio State and its B1G colleagues slogged through a 35-day sentence before paroling themselves last month into the limited work-release program that begins Friday night.
Now all they have to do is stay out of the corona clink, which hasn't been easy for some major programs already playing. Let's hope B1G's ability to insulate itself from outbreak is significantly better than its PR skill.