October 8, 2024

Ohio State Buckeyes and Auburn Tigers factor six of the most impactful games on the way to the College Football Playoff.

Aug 10, 2018 Even with Urban Meyer suspended for the first three games of the season, Ohio State and the entire Big Ten will have arguably the biggest impact on the College Football Playoff race this fall, according to ESPN’s Playoff Predictor. Ohio State and Auburn will combine to play in the six of the seven most important games of the season, and five of the eight games with the biggest impact on the CFP race will feature two Big Ten teams. Ohio State’s games against Michigan State, Penn State and Michigan are each amongst the seven most important games — and Meyer will be coaching in all of them — along with Auburn’s games against Washington, Georgia and Alabama. “It’s one after the other,” Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said of the league’s lineup. “That’s the challenge of the nine [conference] games, and especially in a league that is…

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