Should the Buckeyes go undefeated, everything and nothing will happen as a result of the win streak. Coaches, players, fans and media will complain, but ultimately none of it will matter as Ohio State stands, nose pressed against the window, on the outside, looking in at the BCS National Championship Game.
With every game that Urban Meyer’s 2013 Buckeye squad wins, including its most recent 56-0 dismantling of Purdue, the team pushes closer toward 25-0, since Meyer’s arrival. A lofty number that would push Ohio State into the Top 20, where consecutive wins are concerned, something that, should it happen, is worthy of praise and recognition.
It is also something that, barring outside help, will see the Buckeyes staring at a 25game win streak with merely a bid to the Rose Bowl to show for it, come the first weekend in December. Ohio State will be all dressed up with somewhere to go, but it will not have a ticket for the night when the championship is decided.
Under the expected circumstances that means the system will be condemned by Buckeye supporters; a group that’s benefited tremendously from the BCS, until the system’s final season. After playing in three BCS National Championships, plus six additional appearances, this will be the time when things are not fair to Ohio State.
But, that’s college football, and should the Buckeyes win the Rose Bowl, to go 26-0, and have no National Championship hardware to show for it, the team would be a true anomaly of the…
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