Ohio State missed the College Football Playoff the last two seasons, each time because of an inexplicable road loss. That did not happen Saturday in a 51-10 blowout against Indiana. In fact, the Buckeyes showed enough with the running game and defense to suggest that inexplicable road hiccup isn’t going to happen at all in 2019. The running game and defense failed at Iowa in 2017 and Purdue in 2018, and those Big Ten road losses were the difference between a Playoff berth and New Year’s Day Six bowl. MORE: College football Week 3 scores No. 6 Ohio State rode the running game, defense and special teams against the Hoosiers in a game where the spread was only 14 points. Perhaps the bettors believed those road losses would work against the Buckeyes. That just wasn’t the case; start with the running game, which finished with 41 attempts for 314 yards, an average of 7.7 yards per carry. J.K. Dobbins…
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