Your’s truly just jumped in Mirror Lake for the first time in his life.  It was actually pretty warm.  The last two years it was snowing.  There was a newspaper photographer taking pictures there, so look for me in tomorrow’s Dispatch.  It may or may not happen.  In either case, LET’S BEAT MICHIGAN. (regardless of what terrelle pryor is doing after the last victory.)

Its game day.  Post your hate here.  I’ll be the first to say it, I hate the State Penn of Pennsylvania and I hope my roommates survive the trip to Happy Valley.

Now, bear with me a for a moment after what I’m about to say.  Terrelle Pryor has been pretty good passing the ball the last two games.  I mean good to the tune of 24/48 (50%), 374 yds, 3 TDs, and only 1 INT.  While the completion percentage doesn’t look quite like Colt McCoy’s the TD:INT ratio is where I like to see it.  Want to hear something more surprising than those numbers?  In the past two games, Pryor has only been sacked once.  Now, granted, one of these games was against New Mexico State, but that doesn’t mean that the starting 11 doesn’t have to go out there on Saturdays and do their jobs right.

Does anyone else see a correlation between the two stats?  Well, compare those numbers for the past two games with the Oct. 17 loss at Purdue.  Pryor was 17/31 (55%), 221 yds, 1 TD, 2 INTs.  In addition, Pryor lost two fumbles.  And as for the offense line that game?  They gave up 5 sacks.  Yeah, I’m starting to see a pattern here.

It may be elementary that passers who get better protection are going to pass better, but Pryor has been taking heat all year for his throwing, but the fact of the matter is he’s been under pressure all year behind an offensive line that has been more porous than swiss cheese.  Now this doesn’t absolve Pryor from all the blame, but surely it at least covers some of it.  I would love to have some numbers on the amount of time Pryor has had from the snap of the ball until he throws or is forced to scramble/roll out because of pressure.  But as a college kid who lives off of $60 every two weeks for groceries, I’m not really in the market for a DVR.

However, what I will be doing this weekend as I’m downing Budweiser’s watching the game from the comfort of my living room is taking the time and effort to calculate that exact stat for examination.  Make a mental note of it yourself, if Pryor is given ample time in which to make a decision about where he should throw or whether he should tuck it and run without being chased from the backfield by a defensive lineman or a blitzing linebacker he should have games comparable to his last two and the team will have a greater chance of coming out of Happy Valley with a Happy W.

We’ll keep it brief this week.

Blogpoll official: The Blogpoll was submitted and finalized this morning.  Because the Buckeye Commentary ballot had been previously posted, you will be spared a repeat of the gory details and receive the link.  If you want to see the Blogpoll in all its glory head over to CBS Sports and take a whiff.

Trapasso loves the spotlight: What has gotten into our former 8-year punter?  He cannot stay out of the spotlight.  First, he is pulling fancy shenanigans in the opening game of the NFL season and now he is attempt to damage the world’s largest HD thingamajig.  Not bad for preseason’s work.

And now for something completely (insert adjective here): The MIT Media Lab has done it again.  If you don’t believe me, go here and put your name in the box.  Just do it.  It’s very cool.

Without going into detail, this latest project, Personas, is a program that takes a name and searches the web for some context around it.  It then takes the words and sites it finds to build a profile of that person’s presence on the web.

I could not help myself and immediately started typing in Ohio State names.  Below is Terrelle Pryor’s online persona.  Who knew he was so into medicine.  And, what’s that business about an accident on the right end?

The great majority of Ohio State fans and observers - and national observers, for that matter - are expecting Terrelle Pryor to an order of magnitude better than his baptism-by-fire, freshman season.  While there are those that have lower expectations and reasonable doubts regarding his reported eye-popping 40 time, it seems the masses are going to have their dreams turn into reality.  At least, Jim Tressel seems to believe they will.

“It’s like he’s two different people right now,” Tressel told Columbus radio station WBNS FM/97.1 on Friday, the coach’s first interview since the Buckeyes started hitting in practice this week. “He’s the same athlete he was, maybe then some, but he’s 10 times the quarterback he was.”

I admit, as Pryor and the rest of his teammates take the field today for the jersey scrimmage today, I have expectations for Pryor’s performance this fall that evoke Vince Young, circa 2004.  Is that unfair?  Probably, because does not play in the system and is not surrounded by the same cast but I do expect a breakthrough performance akin to Young’s.

And, I do not seem to be alone.  Doug Lesmerises’ piece indicates that the coaches, players, and even Pryor himself, believes progress has been made and big things are merely days away.