
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State and Clemson are clearly the best programs in their conferences. In the six-year College Football Playoff era, Ohio State has won four of six Big Ten titles and reached the playoff three times. Michigan State has the only other Big Ten playoff appearance. For Clemson, the Tigers have won five straight ACC titles and reached the playoff every year. Florida State won the league crown and made the playoff in the first playoff season in 2014. They’re on top. But who’s on top more? On the big Wednesday Buckeye Talk podcast, Nathan Baird, Stephen Means and I discussed two parts of this OSU-Clemson comparison. One was whether the Big Ten or the ACC has a bigger gap between the team on top and the pack of teams in pursuit. That’s Penn State, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota in the Big Ten, and Notre Dame (for this…
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