As the Ohio State football team prepares for its second consecutive Big Ten Football Championship game, the team’s only concern should be Northwestern. The team cannot control how the College Football Playoff Invitational Committee ranks them in their weekly poll on November 27.
It can control how it plays Saturday night against the Wildcats. The final performance will impact the Committee’s decision on Sunday.
The noise around making the playoff should be left to us.
The epic beat down the Buckeyes put on the Wolverines puts them right back in the center of the debate.
I am on record, probably to the point of exhaustion, that an eight-team playoff is far better than the eye-test justified four-team invitational we are forced to accept by those in power.