If you are an Ohio State football fan, you are likely still coming to grips with the low and high tide of losing to Michigan but then still getting into the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes squeaked in after USC lost to Utah in the Pac-12 Championship game, so they got saddled with playing No. 1 seed Georgia in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, but at least they get a swing at the whole thing.
In fact, just as little as three weeks ago, Ohio State vs. Georgia was the national championship matchup many predicted and wanted to see. OSU was most likely going to have to elbow its way past the defending champions anyway, so why not do it out of the gate with maybe a chance to play the Wolverines again in L.A. for even bigger implications?
Ohio State will hopefully be as healthy as it has been all year when the two face off because it’ll need to be. From a talent standpoint, it’ll be a pretty even battle, but it depends on which position group you’re looking at. And of course, execution and preparation are going to go a long, long way in determining who wins this one.
As luck (or fate, or business model) would have it, we happen to have a sister site, UGA Wire, that obsesses with Georgia football as we do with Ohio State. We’ll be checking in with them from time to time leading up to the massive clash in Atlanta to collaborate and get a view of things from the UGA lens, and we’re kicking it off with a look at position-by-position advantages.
Featured writer and editor/publisher Joe Vitale was kind enough to go through each position group with us here at Buckeyes Wire to pick out whether Ohio State or Georgia has an edge at each position group.
We didn’t touch on the mascots (UGA vs. Brutus), but here’s the rest of the virtual dance battle between the two sites.