Buckeye running back, Daniel Herron, was injured on September 26th in a game against the Illini and apparently came back too soon when he rushed twice against the Badgers this past weekend.

“We probably got set back a week or two,” Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel said Tuesday.

For most teams this would be a bit of a heart breaker and understandably so. Good running-backs don’t fall out of thin air, ya know! (But it is a mildly humorous image, though). Instead of crying, the Buckeyes are reloading with sophomore Brandon Saine, who had been starting in place of Herron, and The Sweater Vest is hoping to throw freshman, Jaamal (yes, two a’s) into the mix eventually, but for now Jordan Hall will be the backup.

The Buckeyes face the Boilermakers this week, who are an embarrassing 1-5. Looking ahead, however, the Buckeyes will have a tough end to the schedule as they face #14 Penn State, #11 Iowa, and the always difficult (no matter what the record) Michigan in Ann Arbor. These games are back-to-back-to-back. Yikes.

While we obviously don’t know how they’ll finish the year off, we DO know two things. If they win out, people from the west and south will kick and scream, whilst comparing the Big Ten to a tee-ball league. If they lose at least one game, Jim Rome will run a segment about how the Buckeyes were blown out of the water (even if it was a close game) and then go back to his LA home, claiming he’s unbiased (at least I own my bias!).

[via ESPN]