It’s not going to be a long four months. This is college football, owner of the shortest season of any major American sport. New Year’s will be here the day after tomorrow, and by the end of next week we’ll be waist-deep in the doldrums of May. There’s a lot of football left to be played, as the saying goes, but it’s not going to be a long season. Which is why it’s all the more frustrating that it already feels like it’s going to be a long four months whenever the topic of Ohio State — and specifically its 2015 schedule — is mentioned. It’s Week 2, and you cannot throw a Buckeyes-shaped rock on the Internet these days without hitting a partisan from another conference squawking about how their team would go 17-0 against OSU’s schedule, since said team would win every game so handily they’d be awarded extra victories. Already not one, not two, but three SEC coaches have publicly, pointedly complained about the Buckeyes’ slate, meaning we’re on pace for the entire league to have its bellyaching done by Thanksgiving. This comes, of course, on the heels of months of offseason chest-thumping and finger-pointing about whose schedule es mas macho. It’s exhausting. And the calendar hasn’t even hit mid-September yet. The latest from SportsLineBut let’s be clear: it’s not exhausting because the criticism of Ohio State’s schedule is baseless. …
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