Playoff team profiles: The Ohio State Buckeyes

Scouting the losers of "the game." Can they rebound when it matters?

Dec 25, 2022

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In my long preamble the other day, I listed the two main paths to winning a National Championship in the playoff era.

You can win with “the trump card,” a pro-style spread passing game which can dice up even the best college defenses and allow you to simply outscore everyone at any level. Or, you win by assembling the strongest “traditional triumvirate” of defense, power run game, and deep threat passing.

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Profile of a winning playoff team

I’ve been pretty good at projecting the playoff battles of college football in the last few years ever since developing a prism for viewing how these games differ from the regular season of college football. This might all change in the coming years as we head toward super divisions and Champions League soccer dynamics alter the architecture of the sport…

2 years ago · Ian Boyd

Now it’s time to profile the four teams participating in the playoffs and gauge whether they figure to be strong enough in either realm to emerge as the National Champions.

First, the #4 seed Ohio State Buckeyes.

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