CLOSE SportsPulse: Dan Wolken reacts to the second College Football Playoff rankings and believes Ohio State can get into the playoff without qualifying for the Big Ten championship game given the committee’s track record. USA TODAY Ohio State has received the go-ahead for this weekend’s football game at Michigan State, the school announced Friday afternoon. The team will take a charter flight to East Lansing on Friday night ahead of a scheduled noon kickoff on Saturday. The announcement came a week after an outbreak of coronavirus cases prompted the Buckeyes to pause organized team activities for three days, including canceling a game at Illinois, the second time in three weeks they had a game called off. “We are very confident that we are heading to East Lansing with a team that can safely compete and whose health, safety and well-being has been our utmost concern,” team physician Jim Borchers said in a…
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