The Ohio State Buckeyes are the one top-eight workforce within the Faculty Soccer Playoff rankings to not have a convention championship sport on the schedule. Lots of people are asking the straightforward query of how can that be. There’s a easy reply that explains all of it.
The Large Ten Convention is at the moment cut up into two divisions: the East and West. The groups with the perfect file in every division face off towards one another within the Large Ten Convention Championship sport each season.
Ohio State is within the East Division with the Indiana Hoosiers, Michigan State Spartans, Maryland Terrapins, Penn State Nittany Lions and Michigan Wolverines.
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Why is Ohio State not within the Large 10 championship?
Ohio State isn’t within the Large 10 championship as they misplaced to Michigan. The 30-24 defeat in “The Game” meant that OSU completed 2nd within the Large Ten East, knocking them out of rivalry for the championship sport.
Which means they don’t seem to be within the Large Ten Convention Championship sport because the Michigan Wolverines gained the division and can face off towards the West Division winner Iowa Hawkeyes. That leaves Ohio State idle this week however the place does that depart their possibilities to make the Faculty Soccer Playoff?
Can the Ohio State Buckeyes nonetheless make the Faculty Soccer Playoff?
That is going to be extraordinarily troublesome for the Ohio State Buckeyes to do as they’re at the moment sixth within the Faculty Soccer Playoff ballot. Not enjoying within the Large Ten Convention Championship sport goes to make issues harder.
To ensure that the Buckeyes to make the CFP, they might must be one of many high 4 groups chosen by the Faculty Soccer Playoff committee. In actuality, the possibilities are slim for them to make the leap.
For the Buckeyes to make the Faculty Soccer Playoff, they would want to finish up leaping two groups. They already theoretically jumped one workforce because the Oregon Geese have been fifth within the Faculty Soccer Playoff rankings and misplaced final evening to the Washington Huskies for the second time.
If Ohio State need to make the highest 4, they would want one other workforce in entrance of them to lose at this time, however the odds are usually not of their favor.
Whereas it isn’t a good place, if that they had gained final week towards Michigan, they might be within the Large Ten Convention Championship sport and within the driver’s seat.
They want one other workforce to lose and with Florida State being fourth and doubtlessly on upset alert, that might be their opening. In fact, that’s, so long as one other workforce behind them, just like the Texas Longhorns or Alabama Crimson Tide, don’t leapfrog over them.
