COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State football’s 2020 schedule hits the sweet spot between allowing a team to prove itself without being overly hostile to championship hopes. With its toughest non-conference and conference games both coming on the road, the Buckeyes are more vulnerable to an in-season slip-up than a year ago. Yet the balance of the schedule provides enough quality opponents to potentially absorb one competitive loss. Beginning with an in-state afterthought and building to an inter-division power, we count down the 12 opponents Ohio State will face in 2020. 12. Bowling Green (Sept. 5) 2019 record: 3-9 The Falcons allowed 62 points to Kent State last season and 49 to Buffalo — a team that appears later (but not much later) on this list. BGSU returns a pretty good receiver in Quintin Morris and no one else who stood out even from a Mid-American Conference perspective in 2019. This…
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