Whether Ohio State deserves a second chance is not the point. The Buckeyes likely will get one. It's what they do with it that matters most.
, thanks to future Big Ten brother Southern California. Always looking out for the conference, those Trojans.Friday night in the Pac-12 championship game, a back door into the four-team CFP opened for the Buckeyes, who as the No. 5 team began the day on the outside looking in. Ohio State needed the No. 12 Utes to hand the No. 4 Trojans their second loss, which history suggests would drop USC out of playoff contention. No two-loss team has made the CFP since its 2014 inception.
Of course, Ohio State may not need to wait that long for a Michigan rematch. More on that in a minute. First, let’s address this issue of backing into the playoff.playing an extra game, in this case the Big Ten championship. It actually happened before, in 2016 when a one-loss OSU made the playoff over a two-loss Penn State, despite PSU having beaten the Buckeyes and going on to win the conference title game.
When the sports gods first met many millennia ago to decide the rules of competition, one of them tossed out the idea of the do-over.In the centuries that followed, the do-over became a staple of pickup games in backyards, vacant lots and between parked cars. Then came instant replay and 5 seconds turned into 10 minutes.
Woody Hayes quickly concluded, “We had to win this one to go and we didn’t. If they vote Michigan, Michigan deserves to go.”: The fourth-down pass from Craig Krenzel to Chris Gamble fell incomplete in the first overtime, giving Miami a 24-17 win over the Buckeyes in the BCS national championship game in Tempe, Arizona.a second chance, which the Buckeyes turned into a 31-24 double overtime victory.: No. 1 Ohio State dropped to No.
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