Buckeyes didn’t root for rival Wolverines despite CFP scenarios

But even with the loss, they only dropped to No. 4 in the rankings and nearly certainly control their destiny to make the Playoff at the end of the season. Penn State will need to win out and have Ohio State topple MI on the final week of the regular season in order to win the East. So this is the right call by the committee to put Ohio State at Number 2.

Michigan, meanwhile, still controls its fate.

The Buckeyes fell behind agains on Saturday, by allowing the Huskies to score the first two goals of the game. If Ohio State goes 11-1, I don’t see how the Buckeyes don’t make the playoff, even if they don’t make the Big Ten title game.

At 8-2 overall and 6-1 in Big Ten play, the Nittany Lions will win the division crown by closing the regular season with wins over Rutgers and Michigan State and if Michigan loses to either in or Ohio State over the next two weeks. Still, if the Buckeyes win their final two games he doesn’t see a realistic way the CFP selection committee could keep them out of the top four. J.T. Barrett accounted for four touchdowns, Curtis Samuel found the end zone three times and Mike Weber was merely an afterthought with 93 yards on 12 carries. PSU has the tiebreaker over Ohio State because of its 24-21 win in State College last month. That doesnt make sense to me.”.

The answers will be provided in the next three weeks.

The Spartans are just 3-7 and 1-6 in the Big Ten, but it is coming off a 49-0 shutout of Rutgers that ended a seven-game losing streak.

College football threw itself one heck of a party on Saturday.

Take a breath; I’ll simplify it for you: If chalk wins over the final two weeks of the regular season (Ohio State will be favored over Michigan), Wisconsin and Penn State would play for the conference championship.

“We’ve come to play every single football game, so it’s unfortunate where we’re at”, said Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio, a former Ohio State assistant. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article. “But obviously it was definitely an exciting game to watch”. “(We have) a lot of guys from OH, so it’s a special game in that respect”. The Ohio State Buckeyes come in next at 2-1, following by the Louisville Cardinals at 6-1 and the Clemson Tigers at 12-1. I said it was murky.

“We don’t know spreads and all that”, he said.

Then we’ll get ready for March Madness. So with two losses, Wisconsin might not have be able to argue a spot ahead of Ohio State. The OVER is 4-1 in Ohio State’s last five road games.

Between now and then to stay in the discussion at all, Ohio State will have to add a major feather to its cap by beating MI, something Louisville can’t match, so the Cardinals are essentially drawn dead at this point when it comes to Ohio State (and even more so a one-loss MI if the Wolverines beat Ohio State and win the Big Ten championship game). The Buckeyes will pose a little more resistance than Rutgers did last week but many can say that Michigan State will be a stiffer challenge that Maryland, despite the fact that Maryland beat Michigan State earlier in the season.