A little light on his Ohio State tenure, but plenty on Mensa as Tom Herman gets some recognition from the Washington Post.

“It did come in handy once,” Herman said Tuesday afternoon with a laugh. “When I was an assistant at Texas State, my boss, David Bailiff, was interviewed for the Rice job. He came back and said to me, ‘Hey, Tom, you still in that Mensa thing?’

“I said I was, and he said, ‘Good, because I told the Rice people that my offensive coordinator is so smart he’s in this Mensa thing, so he can really relate to the kind of smart kids who go to Rice.’ ”