Editor’s note: Send questions for future Mailbags to stewart.mandel@fox.com. *** One quick note before we get to this week’s Mailbag questions. If you’re on Facebook and would like some college football articles to break up the stream of vacation pictures and political rants, take a second to “like” my new author page. My columns will start automatically appearing in your news feed. In return, I promise never to post a picture of what I’m cooking for dinner. Stewart, is Ohio State’s schedule so bad this year that even running the table the Buckeyes could miss the playoff? Does beating Virginia Tech, Hawaii, Northern Illinois, Penn State, Western Michigan, Indiana, Maryland, Rutgers, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan State and Michigan make them worthy of a playoff spot, when a team like Alabama is going to have to beat SEVEN preseason top-25 teams — John, New Jersey First of all, I hope you’re just a neutral observer, not an actual Alabama fan, because an Alabama fan questioning Ohio State’s worthiness would seem pre-tty, pre-tty pathetic right now. (I’ve been re-watching old “Curb Your Enthusiasm” episodes recently, so apologies if I start infusing Larry David references). Were this the BCS, or any point in the 70-plus years of college football’s poll era, I would have immediately dismissed this question as pure nonsense. Ohio State is the defending national champ. It’s starting off preseason No. 1…
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