LOS ANGELES — While the point spread for Saturday’s Rose Bowl dwindled this week, Ohio State football remains in a somewhat unfamiliar postseason position. The Buckeyes are favored by 4 points as of Friday afternoon, per the Vegas Insider consensus. That would be its lowest spread at kickoff of the season. But it would also mark the first time Ohio State was favored in a postseason game since the 2018 Rose Bowl against Washington. It did not cover that day, winning 28-23 against a 5.5-point spread. According to the Odds Shark database, OSU has not covered as a postseason favorite since the 2017 Cotton Bowl, when it beat USC 24-7 as a 9.5-point favorite. Ohio State is 5-4 against the spread in the postseason since the end of the 2014 regular season. But three of those victories have come when pulling upsets as the underdog. The Buckeye Talk gang —…
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