The 2022 Buckeyes were soaring through their schedule.
Then they got a week off, and everything changed - and since our brains are harlots to recency bias, those memories are hazier than they should be. Midseason trends generally don’t earn the right to our memory stores.
Recency bias served us well for the better part of the two decades when the final few games ended well, or at least were mostly enjoyable. All you remember about 2022 is Michigan and Georgia scored 87 combined points.
You still remember one year prior when Michigan and Utah scored combined 87 points.