COLUMBUS, Ohio — Five years ago, a college football blue blood that spent conference championship weekend watching from home waited to hear its playoff fate. © David Petkiewicz/cleveland.com/TNS OSU head coach Ryan Day watches the player warm up before the start of the game between the Wisconsin Badgers and Ohio State Buckeyes in Columbus on Saturday night, September 24, 2022. David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com I thought Alabama, which didn’t play in the SEC Championship Game, would be out. I thought Big Ten champion Ohio State would be in. Reporters watched the playoff announcement that December day in 2017 from the Buckeyes’ team room in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, and when Alabama popped in as the No. 4 seed, I felt that jolt that lets you know when you’re truly surprised. That choice was only one moment representing how the Buckeyes have been at the center of virtually every playoff debate,…
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