Day Bowl Games Recap New Year's

Florida crushed Cincinnati in the Sugar Bowl in Tim Tebow's last game, 51-24. Bobby Bowden coaches Florida State to a Gator Bowl win in his last game. Ohio State won the Rose Bowl. Auburn and Penn State also get bowl game wins. (Jan. 2)

As much as the Buckeyes reveled in the win, jumping up and down and singing along to The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army," which has become the team's unofficial anthem, many players paused to ask how their fellow Big Ten schools did earlier in the day. Posey even took a break from smoking a victory cigar to see if Penn State and Northwestern had won their bowl games.

"We definitely needed to get that monkey off our back," said Posey, who had 101 yards on eight catches and one touchdown. "It was in the back of our minds. This is big for the Big Ten. We're all pulling for each other. I want to see Iowa win and I'm happy Penn State and Wisconsin won. We need to show that we're back."

If there was any question about that, Pryor pointed to the scoreboard one last time before he left the field. No other sign or play better signified the direction of Ohio State and the Big Ten than that.