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Ohio State football: No more trap games for the Buckeyes

By Ryan Stano

Oct 29, 2022; University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; Teammates celebrate a pick-6 touchdown by defensive end J.T. Tuimoloau (44) during the fourth quarter of the NCAA Division I football game against the Penn State Nittany Lions at Beaver Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Adam Cairns-The Columbus DispatchNcaa Football Ohio State Buckeyes At Penn State Nittany Lions
Oct 29, 2022; University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; Teammates celebrate a pick-6 touchdown by defensive end J.T. Tuimoloau (44) during the fourth quarter of the NCAA Division I football game against the Penn State Nittany Lions at Beaver Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Adam Cairns-The Columbus DispatchNcaa Football Ohio State Buckeyes At Penn State Nittany Lions /
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The Ohio State football team was supposed to have three marquee games this year; Notre Dame, Penn State, and Michigan. It ended up only being two because Notre Dame ended up sucking. Well, the Buckeyes have played two of those games already.

After beating Penn State 44-31 thanks to a great defensive effort, the Buckeyes are just waiting for that last game against TTUN. Looking at their schedule, they don’t have any trap games leading up to that game. All the rest of their opponents stink.

We start with the game they have this weekend. Northwestern is very bad, having only one win so far on the season. This is the worst team that the Buckeyes will face in the Big Ten, so this game definitely has no trap potential to it. It should be a blowout from the start.

Next week, the Ohio State football team takes on Indiana. IU is at least a little better, but they are also bad. They only have three wins and only one of those is in Big Ten play. This game is at home too, so there’s absolutely no trap potential for this game either.

The final game before TTUN makes the trip to Columbus is Maryland. Maryland did play TTUN tough earlier this year and has a decent offense. They are 6-2 this season with their only losses coming to TTUN and Purdue by 2. Normally, I’d say this has some trap potential.

The problem for the Terrapins is that they get the Buckeyes right after traveling to Happy Valley. They will be drained from that game and it will probably be a loss. I don’t see them being able to upset the Buckeyes, even if they get to play that game at home.

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Ohio State just has to stay the course and get healthy before TTUN comes to town for that mighty clash of powers.

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