WHO ATE THE TOUGHER CUPCAKE? College football's #1 and #2 will play during the regular season.

The Longhorns are 4-0 in No. 1 against No. 2 games, the latest coming last season when they beat USC in the Rose Bowl for the national title as the second-ranked team.

Ohio State is 2-0 in 1-2 games, the last coming in the 2002 Fiesta Bowl. The No. 2 Buckeyes beat top-ranked Miami in that game to win their last national title.

The game will be in Austin, with Ohio State bent on returning last year's favor in Columbus, but with Northern Illinois having softened them up. (Anybody remember what happened to Michigan the week after they hosted Northern Illinois last year?) Texas comes into the game after a more traditional bought win against North Texas.