Relax Ohio State football fans. The Buckeyes are officially on a bye-week and do so after looking a whole lot better than what we saw during the first few weeks.
Each week, even during a week off, we like to check in with the Football Power Index from ESPN to see what it predicts for the remainder of the games on OSU’s schedule. It’s been an up and down look, with the percentage probability of winning each game going through ebbs and flows as Ohio State started to show some warts, with a bit of a rebound over the last couple of weeks. There was even a point in which Michigan was favored to beat the Buckeyes according to the model.
But where are we now? Michigan and Michigan State both won again to remain undefeated, but Penn State dropped a close one when quarterback Sean Clifford got injured and couldn’t return in a top-five matchup with the Iowa Hawkeyes.
It all has changed what ESPN’s FPI thinks will happen with each of the six remaining games in 2021, so let’s see which way things have moved.
