Urban Meyer and the Ohio State football team have had 11 months to linger on the devastating and gut-wrenching upset loss they suffered to Michigan State in the Big Ten title game last December.
This Saturday, the Buckeyes will finally get a chance at redemption when they hit the road for a prime-time matchup against the Spartans in East Lansing.
The game has huge implications for not only the Big Ten as a conference, but for the landscape of college football’s first-ever playoff. Ohio State and Michigan State represent the league’s best chance of making the highly anticipated postseason, and Saturday’s showdown will be a pivotal moment for the conference as a whole.
Will the 14th-ranked Buckeyes get the resume-boosting win they desperately need, or will the Spartans prove themselves as the class of the Big Ten once again? Mark Dantonio’s squad opened as two-point favorites early this week, but the line has jumped to 3.5, according to Odds Shark.
Michigan State is getting the benefit of the doubt thanks to a home-field advantage that will certainly have an impact on a young Ohio State team. That’s one of the components working in Dantonio’s favor, so the Buckeyes will need to overcome a hostile road environment with some X-factors of their own.
Because when looking at these teams, it’s easy to see how even they really are.
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