On the eve of this season, it looked like Ohio State was going to face a pretty good schedule. After two freebies against Oregon State and Rutgers to start, the Buckeyes had a de facto road game against preseason No. 16 TCU in North Texas. A few weeks after that, they had a visit to preseason No. 9 Penn State. Two of the last three games on the schedule are at preseason No. 12 Michigan State and at home against preseason No. 14 Michigan. All told, S&P+ projected the Buckeyes would play the 37th-hardest schedule in the country. That was fine, but the Playoff selection committee cares more about your big wins than whether you also beat up on bad teams, and Ohio State had a lot of chances for big wins. This felt potentially important. Ohio State was the first team out of the Playoff in 2017, when it…
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