COLUMBUS, Ohio — The College Football Playoff committee insists it does not incentivize margin of victory when ranking teams. Ohio State knows it sure doesn’t hurt. Back in the first College Football Playoff in 2014, the No. 5 Buckeyes jumped No. 4 TCU after beating Wisconsin 59-0 in the Big Ten championship game. The coach of that team, Urban Meyer, recently admitted he felt he had no choice but to leave his starters in up 45-0 in the third quarter. “I leave them in because I don’t think the ‘eye test’ and ‘people think,’ are going to be enough to bump TCU and Baylor,” Meyer, now a Fox studio analyst, said earlier this season on a broadcast. “I had to protect our school and our team and try to put more points. “I had a job to do: To get Ohio State in the playoff. Do I think that’s right?…
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