Ryan Day and Ohio State could soon be incentivized to take bigger swings with who they play thanks to possible changes coming
The Ohio State Buckeyes will open up their 2025 season against Texas in a Cotton Bowl rematch that the Buckeyes took, 28-14. It will be the start of the Arch Manning era for the Longhorns, and he will have to begin things as the team’s starting quarterback on the road in Columbus. It will be […]
The Ohio State Buckeyes will open up their 2025 season against Texas in a Cotton Bowl rematch that the Buckeyes took, 28-14.
It will be the start of the Arch Manning era for the Longhorns, and he will have to begin things as the team’s starting quarterback on the road in Columbus. It will be a tough environment for a road team to start the season. What if there were more of these big-time games early in the season instead of playing lower-level programs?
That could soon happen, as momentum is building for the College Football Playoff format to expand to 14 or 16 teams. The news is being pushed by the Big Ten and SEC, who control decision-making regarding the CFP. Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger broke the news first.
“Within the SEC and Big Ten, momentum is building to further expand the playoff to 14 or 16 teams, assign multiple automatic qualifiers per league — as many as four each for themselves — and finalize a scheduling arrangement together that may fetch millions in additional revenue from TV partners, sources told Yahoo Sports.” — Ross Dellenger, Yahoo Sports
Josh Pate brought up an interesting point in the video below about how this could incentivize big schools to play premier programs early in the season with the likelihood of going to nine conference games being on the table. If four Big Ten teams were for sure getting in, the pressure to win the conference or finish second wouldn’t be so high. You would see teams scheduling tougher opponents from the SEC early in the year because even if they potentially lose it won’t be the end all.
The days of two losses ending your season are over and Ohio State is more than fine with that because they just won a National Championship with two losses. If or when the CFP expands again, Ohio State’s likelihood of always being in the mix skyrockets even more. The SEC and Big Ten run college football and its viewership, so it makes sense for as many as eight of the teams to be from the two divisions in an expansion.
Ohio State has often played schools like Akron, Bowling Green, Toledo, Marshall, etc. Eventually, we could see a more well-rounded schedule early in the year with more certainty that teams would be where they want to be at the end of the season.
Ryan Day admits what Urban Meyer told him about the Ohio State job when he was first hired
They both have lived it.
