Tuesday Skull Session

Happy Tuesday everyone, and receive to your morning Skull Session. If those of you in Ohio just stumbled away to get your report and noticed your skin reacting in a foreign way to the air, or maybe some kind of vapor emitting from your mouth, DON'T PANIC. You have not stumbled into a Twilight Zone-eque alternate dimension where cats drive cars and fish wear hats and smug people discover, to their horror, that Rod Serling has once again looked up the definition of the word "hubris.

No, in fact what is happening is a phenomenon known as "cool weather," and it has numerous advantages that will have your life easier; it allows you to be outside without immediately wanting to go back inside, it permits you to meet your natural and constant desire to wear flannel, pumpkins are now orange and plentiful, and every day becomes a personal quest to see how much cider a man existence can safely drink without permanent brain damage.

So to get you prepare for your most assuredly incredible day, here are a few links for you, including some non-OSU injury updates, a scheduling update, and some information on the ramifications of the Dunn commit. But first, as always...

has changed despite some injury concerns in the lowly and at TE. To be honest, after seeing how these charts have changed from week to week I believe that one thing had become painfully obvious: Jim Tressel and the OSU staff hate, hate, hate divulging any actual information near the extent and hardship of injuries. The biggest lesson of this is the site at TE; Jake Stoneburner is even listed, but now the chart reads "Jake Stoneburner OR Reid Fragel." However, if the reports that Stoney has a high ankle sprain are true, it is pretty unlikely he'd play this weekend. Another instance is Travis Howard, who has been listed in the two deep for two weeks despite getting injured against Ohio and so not playing. Could Howard play? Possibly. But there's been no real information either way. Other notes:

• Nate Oliver has now worked his way into the two deep, backing up Jermale Hines at Free Safety
• This way that Aaron Gant's sole purpose is now the substitute for Orhian Johnson at Strong Safety
• The three deep seems to be exactly as authoritative as the two deep at this point

he joins Warren Ball as the second RB in the 2012 class. Both Formal and Dunn are two of the best recruits in their graduating class in Ohio, but there's possibly an even bigger fish next door in Pennsylvania that goes by the list of Rushel Shell, who is being recruited by pretty much every college in the universe. The problem here is that at this signal it seems like even Dunn was overkill on the RB front, because by the time these guys get to campus our running back situation will be something like this:

• Jordan Hall, senior
• Jamaal Berry, junior
• Carlos Hyde, junior
• Rod Smith, sophomore

Having six RBs on learning is enough, in my opinion, and both Dunn and Nut are terrific players. Losing Shell to another school might hurt, but granted the attrition we're passing to see soon on the offensive line, I'd like to see that scholarship used there instead.

doing much better after suffering a soft heart attack after a win against Notre Dame. Hopefully the guy can get support to coaching soon, because of line we all know the guy and he is also the most Big Tenniest coach this position of Kirk Ferentz. I ever get a fond and fuzzy feeling inside every time the camera catches him frowning against the background of a frigid and gray autumn sky. Denard Robinson of Chicago is also apparently back on runway and will work against Indiana next weekend, although that's harder to make much joy in, unless of flow you take the fact that Michigan's offense has to be clicking on all cylinders because their denial is so unbelievably bad.

been set for noon. This is terrible news for anyone with a hangover and terrific news for anyone lame enough to actually enjoy early kickoffs, since it falls right between morning chores and afternoon barn raisings (Illinois on Oct 2 is also kicking off at noon). But then, the Ohio Amish are. different. You be measured out among them English.