The bye week comes at a perfect time for us to take a deep dive into Ohio State’s advanced stats — not only have the Buckeyes finished their Big Ten warm up games and are getting ready for a revenge game against Penn State, but the advanced stats profiles over at Football Study Hall have been updated with opponent adjustments (i.e., all of the “+” metrics) and all preseason projections have been phased out. So we’re getting a more precise understanding of this team’s strengths and weaknesses than we’ve had before. Win expectancy vs. Oklahoma Ohio State has played six games with a win expectancy of 100% — the only non-100% game was obviously against Oklahoma, at 4%. Win expectancy is defined as: This communicates how frequently a team would have won a specific game given that game’s primary stats. It is intended to say “Given your success rates, big…
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