Gordon Gee

What do I know about college football? I look like Orville Redenbacher. I have no business talking about college football.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

I believe being president of a private institution is a remarkable experience, but at Ohio State, it's a calling.

Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that aspires to a rich diversity of life.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.