Big Ten football has come a long way in the last five years. The perception was that it was the SEC and everyone else, but that’s faded with two Big Ten teams winning the College Football Playoff national championship the last two years. First Michigan, then Ohio State, after the Buckeyes have had so many close calls over the last decade.
I say that to lean into the fact that there are going to be some pretty tantalizing games in the Big Ten this year, some of the best college football games of the season, and Ohio State will be a part of some of those. But first things first, to determine a Big Ten championship and potentially teams that might make the College Football Playoff, you have to play the games first, and the Big Ten has a slate of mouthwatering games, all the way from Week 1 through to the end of the regular season.
In ESPN’s Big Ten football preview, the ‘worldwide leader” set out to name the top ten games of the Big Ten football season, and the Buckeyes are involved in almost 1/3 of those games, three out of the ten labeled. Here are the three games that ESPN believes are ten of the best in the conference that Ohio State is involved in.
Ohio State vs. Texas (Aug. 30)
What ESPN says: “The biggest games of Weeks 1 and 2 are Big Ten vs. SEC affairs, though they take on different flavors. Texas-Ohio State is a rematch of last year’s delightful CFP semifinal, in which Jack Sawyer’s late scoop-and-score ended a Longhorns comeback attempt. Both the Longhorns and Buckeyes will almost certainly start out in the AP top 5.”
What We Say: Texas traveling to the ‘Shoe to take on Ohio State in Week 1 is the game we’ve all been waiting for to kick off the college football season. Both teams can still recover from a loss, but the outcome will set a narrative and put a big feather in the cap of the winner for when it comes…
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Publish date : 2025-07-21 21:12:00
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