At least it’s not all bad news on the football front for Ohio State this Monday, right?
Shortly before news broke that the Buckeyes had dismissed their top running back and their star cornerback was arrested over the weekend, it was announced that OSU was the runaway favorite of the media to win the Big Ten championship this season. 25 of the 26 media members in the poll assembled by the Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s Doug Lesmerises — the conference did away with preseason media votes a couple of years ago — picked OSU as the preseason favorite for the Big Ten title.
12 of the writers predicted an OSU win over Nebraska in early December; 11 predicted an OSU win in a replay of The Game with Michigan; and two saw the Buckeyes topping Michigan State for the title. One writer predicted that Michigan would beat Ohio State in the title game.
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