Ohio State skinned the Clemson cat on Friday night and now looks ahead to lower the Tide in Miami for the national championship. It’s been a twisting, turning, eventful 2020 college football season, and the fact that we’re right here on the doorstep of the final, and biggest game of the season about a week away seems unbelievable and surreal.
But here we are. The Buckeyes proved all the media, hype-machines, narratives, and oddsmakers wrong by blasting Clemson by 21 points, and now they must do the same with Alabama.
The early line on the CFP national championship game is set and Ohio State is a prohibitive underdog once again. In fact, according to BetMGM, the Crimson Tide are favored by -7.5 points.
Odds courtesy of BetMGM, The King of Sportsbooks.
Being a dog against souther teams is nothing new for Ohio State. At the end of the 2002 season, the Miami Hurricanes were favored by two touchdowns, Alabama was favored significantly in the Sugar Bowl in 2014, and we all know about what occurred Friday night in New Orleans.
However, this Alabama team does seem to be one on a roll, and it’ll take everything the Buckeyes have, and maybe then some, to pull off yet another upset.
But, we’ve seen this movie before, and if there’s one team that has the physicality and athletes to match man for man against the Tide, it’s this OUS team.
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