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Ohio State Big Ten, Playoff Hopes Hinge On Conference Meeting

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  • The Ohio State Buckeyes have -330 odds of making the College Football Playoff this season.
  • The Big Ten Conference is expected to change the policy that teams must play six games to be eligible for the conference championship game.
  • The Indiana Hoosiers are heavily favored to not make the College Football Playoff with -650 odds.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Big Ten Conference has found themselves in the midst of controversy as the fourth ranked Ohio State Buckeyes are in danger of missing the Conference championship game which would impact the team’s chances of making the College Football Playoff (CFP).

The cancellation of the Ohio State-Michigan Wolverines matchup this weekend creates uncertainty surrounding the Buckeyes. This will be the third game on the Buckeyes schedule cancelled due to Covid-19 complications this season.

As it currently stands, they have not played enough games this season to face the #14 Northwestern Western Wildcats in the Big Ten Conference Championship game. If the Buckeyes can’t play another game this season, they would still likely make the Big Ten Championship game, but they’ll need the conference to amend the requirement.

Ohio State owns the tiebreaker over the Indiana Hoosiers who would be in the Big Ten Championship game if the Buckeyes aren’t eligible as they defeated them in 42-35 in late November. The Hoosiers are the only other team with a realistic chance of making the Big Ten Championship game, but they just shut down their football activities this week due to Covid-19.

The Conference administrators held a meeting this morning to address the six-game requirement for the title game with a change likely to follow suit.

The Big Ten needs Ohio State to make the College Football Playoff as they’re clearly the best and most talented team the conference has to offer to the selection committee.

Bovada has posted odds on which team from the Big Ten will make the College Football Playoff. With the news coming in on Ohio State possibly being able to still find an opponent to face other than Michigan this week the betting outlook for them to make the playoffs has improved.

Ohio State Buckeyes To Make The 4 Team Playoff

  • Yes -330
  • No +235

Winner: Yes (-330). The Ohio State Buckeyes have the best path to making the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes own the tiebreaker over the Indiana Hoosiers and coming into this week own the final spot in the CFP.

The Big Ten meeting will likely aid Ohio State in getting into the Conference championship game because they haven’t been able to control their scheduling situation amid the pandemic. Take -330 odds at online sportsbooks that Ohio State is one of the four teams to make the playoff because all they need to do is win the rest of their games and they’re in.

The only other team from the Big Ten with a chance to make the College Football playoff is the Indiana Hoosiers who are holding football activities currently.

Indiana Hoosiers To Make The 4 Team Playoff

  • Yes+400
  • No-650

Winner: No (-650). After the Big Ten commissioners met today and the six-game minimum changed the Indiana Hoosiers were directly affected by that.

They already needed a lot of help to make it into the CFP and not playing in the Big Ten Championship game isn’t going to help their case at all. Take the -650 odds that Hoosier are on the outside looking in the four-team playoff. The positive coronavirus cases this late into the season don’t help the Hoosiers playoff odds either fade them on this college footbal prop.