Pundits and Ohio State boosters have managed to convince college football fans, cable pundits, and the College Football Playoff committee that the Buckeyes should be the first team ever to not play in a conference championship and make the National Playoff anyway. Good for them. The performance of so-called “legacy” programs in college football has long been as much a function of a team’s marketing strategy and its accumulation of various types of style points as anything else. The Buckeyes are entitled to milk this for as much as they possibly can; every other team in college football would do the same if it could, and those other legacy programs (such as Notre Dame) with an opportunity to do so as well already do. The problem is, this year Ohio State’s case to receive special treatment isn’t nearly as strong as it has been in other years, the media’s repeated…
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