*Ohio State to Miss the CFP +340*

Ohio State to Miss the College Football Playoff +340 1u

Quick rundown: 

I have Texas beating Ohio State to start the year at 0-1. Moving on..

After a pair of layups with Grambling and Ohio U, the Buckeyes hit the road 3 times in 4 weeks. Traveling to Washington, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Washington's offense looked reborn in their bowl game last year against Lville, and I believe the Huskies have a stud at the helm in Demond Williams Jr. Williams went for 422 total yards and 5 TDs in that game. Washington hired Jedd Fisch from Arizona as well, who turned Noah Fifita into a star. Next up, Illinois. Illinois could be a tough out as well with their program continuity. Illinois returns the 3rd most production in the country including their HC and both coordinators. Camp Randall is always a tough place to play as well. After that road gauntlet Ohio State will return home to play Penn State. If PSU's additions at WR pan out, this could be their most prolific offense since the days of Saquon. And then theres the Michigan game looming large at the end. Texas, Penn State, and @ Michigan present significant tests for Ohio State while Washington, Illinois and Wisconsin have landmine potential. Ohio State ranks 101st in returning production, and will debut a new OC and DC this season. They will hand the keys to unproven Julian Sayin who has 12 career passing attempts on the season. Toss in three new starters on the OL and a new OL coach, there could be more empty drives than we are used to seeing from Ohio State this season. The beauty of this bet is that the schedule falls in place where should Ohio State lose its opener to Texas, you can hedge by playing it against Penn State and Michigan later in the season.

@TexasMissile

 nice write up.

Yeah I don't hate that Tex .. Took under 10.5 .. One concern is its possible OSU could be a bubble team and think nature could just kinda find a way to eek them in there, wouln't be their first playoff eek in decision going their way.. But man 3.4-1 feels pretty good IMO given .. There's a pretty obvious 3 very losable games w UT, PSU @Mich .. @Wash, @Ill make it 2 more where just a bad game or the wrong turnover could do them in ..  3 other distress spots vs weaker opponents @Wisco is a totally under the radar UGLY spot huge risk they pitch a bad game there.. easy for any good team to lose control in that situation .. Minny maybe a cake walk but in that post-Wash / ILL B2B roadies on deck just can't say there's not some potential for bad game baked in when they should kill em at home .. Rutgers off a bye maybe the biggest lookahead trouble spot on the CFB schedule .. don't even need the distress spots but losing 1 or playing down in 2 wouldn't surprise me and really just not helping a CFB resume if they're struggling in any of those games and have a few losses in others .. 

Good luck!

Could certainly be right - my only caution would be I think some of the guys waiting their turn for the buckeyes are better than what just left. They obviously recruit very well. The trenches lack depth which is a major issue in this day/age of college football with more tough weeks than ever. 

was never a Will Howard fan. The WRs will make any QB productive so I think sayin has the potential to be better overall. RB’s big question mark. Like the pieces in the secondary quite a bit. 

losing 2 coordinators is a big deal as well as I unfortunately learned lol

Hard to see them dropping all those games you mention but yeah even 9-3 would be a good year all things considered and is that enough?