We won’t know how good this Ohio State team really is until December, after it has faced Big Ten East rivals Penn State and Michigan and, if it gets there, the West champ in the conference title game. The Buckeyes entered the College Football Playoff last season with a veteran quarterback, an elite defense and just one three-point road loss on their résumé, only to be exposed as a pretender in a 31–0 beatdown at the hands of eventual national champion Clemson in the Fiesta Bowl. Ohio State’s mostly smooth regular season masked the real weaknesses that lay under the surface.
Ohio State's Performance a Mixed Bag in Opening Win Over Indiana
