Fate is fickle and it has turned again.

After the Purdue game our coach was the goat. All Tressel did since then was run the table, win the Big Ten outright, take us to the Rose Bowl, and post the most wins against Michigan in any decade since he early 1900's! Today anyone with half a sense of Buckeye history is on cloud nine.

Bill Livingston of the plain Dealer wrote two columns this weekend that put these accomplishments in context as well as anything I have read. One reason for that is that Bill has been quite critical of The Vest in the past, and back in days of #13 caustic was the better word. Bill's compliments don't come easy, so when he paid two of them this weekend it turned my head:

Glory days? When it comes to Ohio State's No. 1 goal, this is as good as it gets: Bill Livingston

Keep enemy closer works for Ohio State's Jim Tressel

And if those two aren't enough to convince you, check out bob Hunter's exclusive pregame seance with none other than Fielding Yost himself for another history lesson. It's sports writing at it's best:

Bob Hunter commentary: My, how things have changed in The Game

The Buckeye's throwback uniforms yesterday came with a throwback offense. It probably wasn't glitzy enough for some of you, but for this old lineman that put it on the ground, length of the field, grind it out winning touchdown drive was a work of art. You could just hear Bo up there grudgingly turning his head and saying "Well Woody, you got us on that one!"

Buckeye History will look kindly on the era we are living through. Savor it and don't let anybody try to tell you differently!