Not surprisingly, Big Ten athletic directors reportedly have changed the rules to allow Ohio State, No. 4 in the College Football Playoff, to play in the Big Ten championship game, keeping the Buckeyes on a path to the four-team national playoff.
This comes a day after Michigan was forced to cancel its annual rivalry game on Saturday with Ohio State because of a COVID-19 outbreak. Without the Michigan game, Ohio State, which canceled its game at Illinois because of COVID issues, would fall under the original six-game threshold the Big Ten had in place to reach the title game when the abbreviated eight-game, conference-only schedule was unveiled in September.