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Ohio State vs. Michigan 2020 Football Preview And Prediction

Ohio State will host Michigan this year for what we hope is the next edition of The Game. We’ve got your preview and prediction.

It’s finally Michigan Week and now we’re just hoping that somehow the greatest rivalry in all of sports will somehow be played. The Wolverines had to cancel with Maryland last week due to COVID concerns and now the annual showdown is in jeopardy.

Michigan is coming into the game a team in shambles. A season that started out with such promise has quickly turned sour. And Jim Harbaugh’s seat is about as hot as it could be right now, with added rumors of the head coach leaving for the NFL. It’s all led to the Buckeye’s being a 30 point favorite.

I always contend records can be thrown out of the window when it comes to rivalry games. Ohio State is clearly the better team and the class of the Big Ten, but anything can happen when it comes to The Game.

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Ohio State vs. Michigan State 2020 Football Preview And Prediction

See the keys to the game and our prediction for the Buckeyes and Spartans squaring off in East Lansing this Saturday.

What a rollercoaster of a season. Players, coaches, and fans wait each week with bated breath to see if the team will be able to take the field or if COVID-19 will notch another victory in the win column.

This week brings the same anxiety of the waiting game. As of now, Ohio State is optimistic that the game against Michigan State will take place. But until the team is on the field, we won’t know for sure.

Sparty has been a bit of a mystery this year. They couldn’t get out of their own way in an opening loss to Rutgers and then last week beat the No. 8 ranked Northwestern Wildcats. Your guess is as good as ours.

Assuming both teams can get to Saturday with no outbreaks, let’s take a look at how the game might play out.

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Ohio State vs. Illinois 2020 Football Preview And Prediction

Ohio State travels to Champaign to face the Fighting Illini as the Big Ten season rolls on. We’ve got your preview and prediction.

Well, Ohio State made it past a gritty Indiana team. While the Buckeyes looked unstoppable in short spurts against the No. 9 team in the nation, there were more head-scratching moments than we’d care to see from a team with national title aspirations.

Even though he threw for 300 yards and accounted for three touchdowns, Justin Fields probably played his worst game as a Buckeye. It seemed as if he was trying to do too much at times which led to sacks and interceptions.

This also might have been the worst game Ryan Day has called as the Ohio State head coach. Indiana sent blitz packages galore. The best way to beat a team that blitzes often? Run right at them.

When Ohio State took to the ground, they had continued success. Master Teague rushed for a career-high 169 yards and Trey Sermon added another 60. And yet, the run seemed to be abandoned at crucial times, most notably on fourth-and-1 on the Indiana five-yard line only up by a score. Don’t overthink it… hand the ball to Teague and get downhill behind one of the most experienced offensive lines in college football.

The good news is this, you learn best when you’ve been faced with a little adversity. I think it was most likely a good thing for this Buckeye team to face a challenge to see what they need to clean up as well as motivation to play better.

On to Champaign to face the Fighting Illini.

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Five way too early bold predictions for Ohio State football in 2020

We’re looking way ahead to this fall and throwing out five way too early bold predictions for Ohio State football in 2020.

If you feel like you’re in the college football equivalent of purgatory, you are not alone. It may have only been less than two months since Ohio State lost in shocking and depressing fashion to Clemson in the Fiesta Bowl, but it feels much longer.

We’ll have spring ball soon enough, but until then, we’re left to question what if, why, and for what reason? But enough about the past, we’re here to look ahead — perhaps way ahead to next season.

We always roll out some bold predictions for the upcoming football season, but this time we’re getting ahead of the game with five way-too-early bold predictions for this fall. By the way, we nailed every single one of our bold predictions before the season last year.

That means we’ll probably be way off this time, but nonetheless, we’ll give it the old college football try.

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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.

Sadly, the 2019 football season for Ohio State has come to an end. It is one that started with some pretty modest expectations — at least from the national media. In the end, it was one for the ages, but one that feels like it finished before it should have in a College Football Playoff semifinal loss.

We started the year banging out five preseason bold predictions for this team and we figured it would be worth re-visiting now that the season is over. We did the same thing at mid-season, and now we can look back and see exactly how we did.

So here it is — we are holding ourselves accountable by time re-visiting our five bold predictions for 2019. As you’ll see though, we did pretty good. Tell your friends because it’s unlikely we are this spot on like this ever again.

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