A spot in the national title game is on the line Saturday in Atlanta And so is Ohio State’s pride, writes ByPatForde
has its normal wardrobe that rarely deviates. Then it makes the College Football Playoff and gets to dress up as an underdog. This is the Buckeyes’ Halloween, the one time when they can step out of Big Ten behemoth character.
Ohio State has been pretty good in that rare role, winning three times and losing twice, with a 2014 national championship as part of its underdog body of work. And if there is any scenario from that Playoff past that it would love to replicate in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium Saturday night, the ’14 semifinal upset of Alabama is it.Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch/USA TODAY Network
Here, Ohio State again is a No. 4 seed—and again had some critics of its inclusion in the Playoff, coming off a 22-point home beatdown against . The Buckeyes are a 6½-point underdog this time around against an SEC favorite, playing in a dome in SEC country. Can they repeat the upset script? But this version of Ohio State, much like that one, is not trying to overcome any sort of talent deficit. The Buckeyes have dudes, with three straight top-five recruiting classes from 2020 to ’22 and NFL prospects all over the depth chart. The whole underdog thing is a dress-up deception.
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