USATSI For about six days, Ohio State’s odds to win the College Football Playoff National Championship were as long as they had been all season. A 45-23 home loss to No. 2 Michigan on Nov. 26 kick-started a week of devastation as coach Ryan Day and the Buckeyes saw themselves, once again, missing out on a shot at the Big Ten championship following a defeat to their most-hated rival. It seemed, at the time, that Ohio State would miss for the second straight year an opportunity to play for a national championship. But then the college football gods answered, as they so often have for the Buckeyes. The Utah team that Ohio State had faced in a modern New Year’s Six epic the year before went and beat USC in the Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday, Dec. 2. That opened a spot for Ohio State, then No. 5 in the…
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