We like to follow along with whatever crazy formula ESPN uses to predict the Ohio State football games during the season. The worldwide leader in sports programming sausage doesn’t tell you what goes into what comes out the other end, but there’s product there and we’re consuming it.
For the first time last week, there was a team on Ohio State’s remaining schedule that was favored to beat it according to the ESPN FPI Matchup Predictor, so that was eyebrow-raising noteworthy.
Then, this week happened. The Big Ten looked like a stale donut both in-league and across the college football landscape, so I’m sure you are wondering how all of that changed how things look now. Is that team (that just might happen to be up north) still favored to beat the Buckeyes, or did things self-correct a bit?
What about the rest of the 2021 schedule? Is Ohio State still favored to win the rest of the games after giving Akron a super wedgie on Saturday? Let’s get into it and see what the ESPN FPI matchup predictor says after Week 4.
