We finally know what seed the Ohio State football team will be, and who it will be playing in the new 12-team College Football Playoff. On Sunday, a day after the conference championship games were revealed, the Buckeyes were awarded the No. 8 seed and will play against No. 9 Tennessee.
That’s probably a little lower than most thought with Penn State’s loss to Oregon in the Big Ten Championship game and all the data points the Buckeyes had over the Nittany Lions, but it at least means that Ohio State will host a playoff game in the ‘Shoe, so that should be good news for all of Buckeye Nation.
If OSU were to win that matchup, it would go on to play a rematch with No. 1 seed Oregon where it’ll get a chance to make good on the heartbreaking loss in Eugene earlier this season.
The complete CFP seedings had Oregon (1), Georgia (2), Boise State (3), and Arizona State (4) as the four highest rated conference champions that receive first-round byes.
The rest of the seeding has No. 5 Notre Dame playing No. 12 Clemson, No. 6 seed Penn State playing No. 11 SMU, and No. 7 Notre Dame playing No. 10 Indiana. Alabama was — somewhat surprisingly — left out of the fray in favor of SMU.
THE BRACKET IS SET ✍️
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— ESPN (@espn) December 8, 2024
We’ll have ton more on this as we react and analyze because it’s definitely something.
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