COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio State football team that arrived in Atlanta on Sunday night is different than the one that opened the season as a favorite to play for the national championship. Whether these Buckeyes are better remains to be seen. They earned Saturday’s Peach Bowl playoff semifinal assignment against Georgia. They also earned the outside doubts that followed them south, thanks to their stumble across the regular-season finish line. Ohio State will now attempt to do what its predecessors did in 2014 – sneak into the playoff as the No. 4 seed, topple the SEC’s reigning power in the semifinals, then announce their arrival in the national championship game. Months ago — as early as last winter, actually – this group was already being compared to the 2014 team. The thinking was, if the potential second-year stars reached their peak late this season, the best version of this…
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