Re-visiting our five preseason bold predictions for Ohio State in 2019

We made five preseason bold predictions for the 2019 Ohio State football season. Here’s a look at how we did when all the dust settled.

Ohio State will make the College Football Playoff

What we wrote:

The 2019 version of the Ohio State football team might end up being better than the 2018 version. For as good as the offense was last season, the defense had its warts that were never fully cured.

The offense will still be dynamic this year, it’ll just do it a little different than what it did with Dwayne Haskins. Add that to the fact the defense will be light years better, and this should be a more complete team than what we saw last year. A year in which OSU won the Big Ten and became Rose Bowl champs.

In the end, I think we see that this Buckeye team was vastly underrated by many. It wins the Big Ten, and finds itself back in the College Football Playoff. And when that happens, remember who didn’t sleep on what’s cooking on the banks of the Olentangy this year.

How it all went down:

Spot on again. Ohio State made the College Football Playoff as the No. 2 seed and it’s no stretch to say it was the best team this year that got some very bad breaks in the Fiesta Bowl. Otherwise it could have very well won the whole thing. I’ll go to my grave believing the Buckeyes were simply better than Clemson and can — and likely should have — beaten anyone this year.

There, not bad eh? Again, don’t get used to it, but we’ll do it all again next year.

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