Ohio State needed a lot of breaks and statistical anomalies to back into the College Football Playoff after it lost to Michigan, so it seemed like the writing was on the wall of inevitability.
Oregon lost to Washington on Friday night to keep hope alive, but it didn’t take long on Saturday to wipe that clean and almost assuredly eliminate the Buckeyes from the playoff. The end came when Oklahoma State was on the receiving end of a lashing from Texas in the Big 12 Championship game.
I guess there’s still a chance the College Football Playoff committee does somethings crazy (we’ve seen it before), but Buckeye Nation and the national media have come to the realization that OSU is likely out of the playoff and headed to South Florida for the Orange Bowl in a New Year’s Six matchup.
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Social media, and most namely, X, formerly known as Twitter, was quick to react to the realization that Ohio State was out of the mix after what went down in Dallas, and we’ve some of the best reactions here.
Let’s get into the sad tale of reaction.