Troy Smith threw for 269 two touchdowns and Anthony Gonzalez caught eight passes for a career-high 142 yards as the Buckeyes snapped Texas' national-best 21-game winning streak.
Ohio State is the top-ranked team in the Grantland Rice Super 16 preseason poll, which resumes on Oct. 16.
Other Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Bowl National Team of the Week nominees for the weekend of Sept. 9 included:
Akron (1-1): The Zips stunned N.C. State, 20-17, on Dennis Kennedy's third touchdown run on the final play of the game in Raleigh.
New Hampshire (1-0): Ricky Santos ran for three touchdowns and threw for two more as the Division I-AA Wildcats upset Northwestern, 34,17, in Evanston.
The FWAA has named a national team of the week since the 2002 season. This is the second season that the award has been sponsored by the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.
The 16 pollsters of the Grantland Rice Super 16 Poll decide the weekly honor. Each Monday during the 2006 college football season, the FWAA will name the Tostitos Bowl National Team of the Week through Nov. 27.
The Grantland Rice Super 16 Poll will resume this season on Oct. 16. The top-ranked team in the final poll will be awarded the Grantland Rice Trophy as the FWAA's national champion. The FWAA has awarded the trophy each season since 1954. Texas is the defending FWAA national champion and Ohio State is ranked No. 1 in the initial 2006 poll.
Since 1971, the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl has hosted five games that have decided the college football national championship, including two Bowl Championship Series title games. The 2007 game will be played on Jan. 1. The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, along with the new Tostitos BCS Championship Game, moves to the new Cardinals Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., and will be played on Jan. 8.
For more information on the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl National Team of the Week, go to
www.footballwriters.com or www.fiestabowl.org.