COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State’s bid for a College Football Playoff berth receives no help from the Buckeyes’ underwhelming Big Ten Conference schedule. So it needs to keep winning the way it won last Saturday in an emphatic 52-12 blowout of Michigan State. Without three-fifths of its starting offensive line, a starter and two key rotation players on defense and four members of the coaching staff — including the head coach — the Buckeyes throttled the same Michigan State team that had recently beaten Northwestern. The College Football Playoff committee pays attention to such absences. It did not ding Clemson much for its loss at Notre Dame, due to the coronavirus-related absence of Trevor Lawrence and three defensive starters also out with injury. I imagine when Iowa athletic director and committee chair Gary Barta speaks Tuesday night, he will say his group was impressed with Ohio State’s thorough demolition of…
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