Ohio State Football: Where is the trap game in 2022?

The Ohio State football team has some tough games coming up in 2022. After looking at the schedule there is one game that stands out to be a major trap game.

We hear it every year from every good team in the country, the trap game on their schedule. It’s a game that your team should win, but may not or doesn’t because they are looking at the next game on their schedule for different reasons.

Sometimes it’s a better opponent, a big-time nationally-televised top 25 team, or a rival on the horizon. The Ohio State football team is no stranger to such a game and every year it seems we look at their upcoming schedule and try to figure out which one that is so we can try our best to make sure it is handled with the same importance as the rest.

The Buckeyes have some big games on their 2022 football schedule with everything from opening the season in week one against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and new head coach and former Buckeye Marcus Freeman, down to the last week of the regular season against that team up north. Now that I’ve had the chance to really look at the Ohio State schedule for the next season I have identified one game that really stands out as THE trap game.

This past season they lost to TTUN for the first time since 2011 so naturally, they will have all of our focus on making sure it doesn’t happen again. It has already become an obsession, leaving the week before the biggest trap game of the season.

On November 19th not only will it be the week before The Game, which will have us chomping at the bit, but it is also a road game against a Big Ten opponent in the Maryland Terrapins. It doesn’t matter if Maryland is going to be good or bad, playing on the road in a conference game is always tough.

Now add in a lot of the focus will be a week ahead to try to put things right again back in Columbus to put the Wolverines back in their place. Ohio State at Maryland in November has all the makings of the exact definition of a trap game, I believe more than any of the other games on our upcoming schedule.

If they are in the correct position like they think we should be at that time of year, let’s hope they keep their focus and handle their business both against Maryland and definitely against that other school on November 26th at The Horseshoe.