March 14, 2025

Is Ohio State's preseason win total too high in 2018?

Now that quarterback talk has died down a bit for the defending Big Ten champion Ohio State Buckeyes, national expectations for Urban Meyer’s team in 2018 seems to be the popular talking point heading into the dog days of summer. Can Ohio State, a team as talented as any across college football, get back to the College Football Playoff after narrowly missing the final four a season ago? Early preseason projections indicate the Buckeyes as one of the frontrunners along Alabama, Clemson and Georgia, but College Football News editor Pete Fiutak believes the Buckeyes could finish slightly under their lofty expectations due to schedule difficulty. Here’s what Fiutak wrote this week about Ohio State’s projected Vegas win total of 10.5 this season: “Dwayne Haskins will be more than fine as the new starting quarterback. The running backs are the best in the Urban Meyer era, the defensive front will be a killer…

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