With huge Big Ten contests against Penn State, Iowa and Michigan on the horizon, Ohio State will get a breather this week. The Buckeyes will step out of conference play to host New Mexico State in the first-ever gridiron meeting between the two programs. While the Buckeyes have been getting better, except for the Purdue game, the Aggies are a team that is struggling to find it’s identity, as well as wins. “New Mexico State is in a transition mode,”?Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel said during his weekly press conference. “We’ve played a couple of teams that are in that world that with the new coaching staff in the midst of developing relationships with their coaching staff and their team. New Mexico State, in particular, brought in a number of new players on their team, so they’re still growing and trying to figure out who they are and they’ve had two different quarterbacks playing.