Each week we like to check in with the Football Power Index from ESPN to see what it predicts for the remaining games on OSU’s schedule. It’s been an up and down look with the percentage probability of winning each game ebbing and flowing with the results across the entire landscape of the sport.
Ohio State showed some warts early but rebounded the last couple of weeks. There was even a point in which Michigan was favored to beat the Buckeyes according to the model. That changed with all the formulaic genius that apparently goes into ESPN’s sausage-making, so let’s check in to see where things are today.
We’ve already seen Ohio State move back up into the top five in both the USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches and AP Poll, but how did all the probabilities change with the game-by-game predictions after the bye-week?
