Buckeye’s free fall should end against Northwestern

Let’s take a look at the way the three games remaining on Ohio State’s football schedule could play out from most optimistic to most pessimistic and their possible consequences: – Ohio State beats Northwestern on Saturday, then wins at Nebraska next week and again in two weeks against Michigan. To get to the College Football Playoff OSU would have to get some help over the next three weeks. The Buckeyes’ small but best hope of making it to the playoff runs through the Big Ten championship game. If they can climb over several teams ahead of them in the Big Ten standings in the next three weeks, get in the championship game and win it, they would get an automatic bid as the Big Ten champion. Ohio State (6-3, 4-2 Big Ten) was twentieth in this week’s College Football Playoff rankings. It probably would be more difficult to get to the playoff as an at-large team instead of being the Big Ten champion.

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