Ohio State tight end Nick Vannett did not guarantee Ohio State would have beaten Alabama again if they met in the College Football Playoffs for a second straight year, but he did make an admission to AL.com this week. He felt Michigan State’s 38-0 loss to the Crimson Tide on New Year’s Eve was not a good look for the Big Ten. “It kinda made us look bad,” Vannett said. Of course, the Buckeyes had only themselves to blame for having to sit out the second CFP. They lost 17-14 to Michigan State at home in late November in a game the Spartans were without starting quarterback Connor Cook. Season-long problems with play calling and execution reached their climax against MSU, resulting in arguably the worst offensive performance of Urban Meyer’s career as a head coach. Working out some of those problems led to dominating wins over Michigan and Notre Dame, but it was too little, too late. Or perhaps they were simply enough to give players such as Vannett and teammate Tyvis Powell legitimate reason to wonder what might have been. “I didn’t get to watch much film on them, but I know it would have been a hell of a game,” Vannett said. “(Alabama) might have done a little better this year than they were last year. And I think the way we played in the last couple of games, we could have played against any team in the country…
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