COLUMBUS, Ohio — This national championship run for Ohio State will begin with a rest that feels mostly like just another bye week, not a bowl break. A quirk of the calendar and a shift of the calendar conspired to make this time off as short as it can be for any team making the College Football Playoff semifinal. • First, conference championship weekend was on Dec. 7, the latest date possible. The league title games are held on the first Saturday in December, and this year that was the seventh day of the month. This was just the second time in the nine years of the Big Ten Championship that it was held Dec. 7. Last year it was Dec. 1. • Second, the playoff semifinals were moved up from when they were originally scheduled. The games are on Dec. 28, when they were first planned for Dec. 31.…
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