You might not know this but Ohio State did not do enough during the regular season to earn a trip to the Big Ten Championship Game.The College Football Playoff selection committee ranked the Buckeyes at No. 2 on Tuesday night. Urban Meyer’s team is 11-1 but the one team they lost to, No. 7 Penn State, is set to be the Big Ten East’s representative in Indianapolis on Saturday night. The Nittany Lions kick off against No. 6 Wisconsin at 8 p.m. to decide conference supremacy. Yet the Buckeyes are still in excellent shape to earn a Playoff berth, as evident by both their résumé and No. 2 ranking. But because Ohio State will be sitting at home watching teams compete for conference titles all weekend, they have one fewer opportunity to impress the committee before the final slate of rankings is released on Sunday at noon. There are four…
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