College football is in chaos, but luckily that's exactly the kind of environment in which Ohio State thrives.
I like the word"flux." It's short, which means that it's easy to spell, Doc Brown makes liberal usage of it inI also find that"flux" is an apt descriptor for the general chaos that college football teams have to navigate if they want to accomplish anything during their seasons.
Now you get to add on the pressures of NIL and conferences exploding and imploding all over the place, and suddenly everything feels a little too off-kilter for a point in August when we should be devoting time to learning the middle names of backup offensive linemen, not wondering about the sociopolitical implications of being an accessory to conference murder.
Things looked better for the next few weeks, until Ohio State escaped by the skin of their teeth against Maryland in overtime, and found themselves 4.5-point underdogs at home against a top five-ranked Michigan team.Though you're fed up, throw your head upBut things weirdly worked out anyway. The Buckeyes won that game by a gajillion points, and then won the Big Ten Championship against Northwestern and then subsequently Rose Bowl against Washington to, somehow, finish 13-1.
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