INDIANAPOLIS — As football season in the Big Ten gets ready to kick off, perennial power Ohio State finds itself in a rare spot. Not only did the Buckeyes miss qualifying for the Big Ten championship game for the first time since 2016, but their decade-long dominance of arch rival Michigan came to an end in late-November. Eight months later, inside Lucas Oil Stadium at Big Ten Media Days, receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba described the 42-27 loss to the Wolverines in Ann Arbor as “sickening, bad” and, frankly, unbelievable. “It didn’t feel real,” Smith-Njigba told reporters Wednesday of the aftermath. “We always thought we were just going to go to the playoffs. We were just so sure of it.” They had reason to believe that. Ohio State had captured four straight Big Ten titles and started the year with a 10-1 record, primed for another trip to Indianapolis, and claimed one…
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