John Cooper may be secretly giggling to himself somewhere out there. Despite being known as the coach who couldn’t beat Michigan and despite invoking the wrath of every Buckeye fan because of it, Cooper may be feeling a lot better about himself these days. “How could that be?” many a Buckeye fan might wonder. Perhaps the reason why is just too obvious for Buckeye fans to immediately understand.

Well for the first 10 games of every year, Cooper built up huge expectations in Buckeye fans. So much so that it became an annual event to hype up OSU’s national championship chances in late July or perhaps even as early as the Spring game. It was almost as if Christmas was now on the third Saturday in November for Buckeye fans. But as you all know, each third Saturday in November Buckeye fans received a lump of coal. But hope springs eternal in Columbus and like the Bad News Bears, the Buckeyes would get them next year.

Tressel has managed to surpass Cooper in building even higher expectations and in futility. For the last two years, Tressel has moved Buckeye Christmas to the Monday in January following New Years Day. Tressel has been able to make OSU fans and players believe that they deserve to be in the National Championship game. And for two years straight, Tressel has laid an egg once they’ve gotten there. It must be like getting that BB gun for Christmas and having it ripped out of your hands two years in a row. You begin to question whether you really deserved that BB gun, whether you were really as good as your parents said you were, and, now, whether it was all just a dirty lie. And guess what? Now you know you won’t get a BB gun next year.

Now that OSU is finally playing someone challenging prior to the Big Ten season, Tressel has moved Buckeye Christmas to mid-September. And guess what, Buckeye fans got another lump of coal. Will they ever learn?

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