Indiana vs Ohio State Same-Game Parlay for College Football Big Ten Championship

Douglas Farmer's SGP picks for the Big Ten title game see Jeremiah Smith and Bo Jackson carrying Ohio State to victory over Indiana.

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Douglas Farmer • Betting Analyst
Dec 5, 2025 • 11:24 ET • 4 min read
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Photo By - Imagn Images. Ohio State Buckeyes running back Bo Jackson (25) runs the ball against the Michigan Wolverines.

No. 1 vs. No. 2. 12-0 vs. 12-0. The top seed in the College Football Playoff on the line, as well as quite possibly the Heisman Trophy.

The stakes may seem like they cannot be higher, but that is only true for the Indiana Hoosiers. The Ohio State Buckeyes may actually play loose in the Big Ten Championship Game.

My Indiana vs. Ohio State same-game parlay picks will rely on the Buckeyes to be easygoing for once, in a complimentary way. Read my full Indiana vs. Ohio State predictions and college football picks ahead of kickoff at 8:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, December 6.

Our best Indiana vs Ohio State SGP for Big Ten Championship

After routing Michigan, the Ohio State Buckeyes should not have any real worries left.

In the last calendar year, the Buckeyes have gone 16-0 and vanquished the monkey on their back known as four straight losses to their biggest rival. What else needs to be done?

Finally being able to relax should bode well for Ohio State, especially considering the stressed version already went 10-1-1 against the spread this season, including 9-1 against Power Four competition.

That one ATS loss? It came when Purdue scored a garbage-time touchdown while trailing by five scores. That should not endanger this spread vs. the Indiana Hoosiers.

As Ohio State has steamrolled toward a repeat National Championship, it has leaned on Jeremiah Smith as much as ever.

In his last 16 games, the star sophomore receiver has scored in 12 of them, with two of those exceptions being laughable blowouts.

Bo Jackson may be joining Smith in creating an unstoppable offense. The freshman running back has cracked 100+ rushing yards in four of his last five games.

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Douglas Farmer
Betting Analyst

Douglas Farmer spends his days thinking about college football and his nights thinking about the NBA. His betting habits and coverage follow that same pattern. He covered Notre Dame football for various outlets from 2008 to 2024, most notably spending eight seasons as NBC Sports’ beat writer on the Irish. That was also when his gambling focus took off. Knowing there were veteran beat writers with three decades more experience than he had, Douglas found his niche by best recognizing Notre Dame’s standing in each year’s national landscape, a complex tapestry most easily understood and remembered via betting odds.

In 2021, that interest created a freelance opportunity with Covers, a role that eventually led to Douglas joining the company full-time in 2023. In the fall, Douglas will place five or six dozen bets each week, a disproportionate amount via BetRivers because the operator tends to have lines slightly different than the rest of the market. The same can be said of Circa Sports’ futures markets.

While Douglas is an avid NBA fan and covers the league throughout the year, the vast majority of his bets are on college football, because that is the biggest key to sports betting: Know what you do not know.

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