You are now the favorite to win the College Football Playoffs, Ohio State. Take care of it.

You are now the favorite to win the College Football Playoffs, Ohio State. Take care of it.

In 2017 College Football Playoff, the team that no opponent should want to face—the front-runner and the colossus—was hiding in plain sight.

We allowed ourselves to ignore the 300-pound gorilla if we never saw it. We either disregarded college football’s history, which indicates that the most skilled teams have the highest chance of winning national championships, or we let an ugly defeat to a fierce rival cloud our judgment.

The person who came up with the saying “Jimmys and Joes beat X’s and O’s” was a very astute individual, despite the fact that coaches tend to make college football appear very complicated.

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How will Ohio State respond to the mantle of the front-runner against Texas?
The Buckeyes had the most difficult route to the national championship game among teams placed in the top eight thanks to that seed and the bracket placement that went with it.

Whatever. Talent won out.

When asked to describe Ohio State freshman wide receiver Jeremiah Smith’s 187-yard receiving performance in the Rose Bowl, Oregon coach Dan Lanning responded, “The guy is NFL-ready.”

Many of Smith’s teammates are as well. Long before the sun set over the San Gabriel Mountains, Lanning’s Ducks were 34 points behind Ohio State.

Three months from now, many Buckeyes will hear their names called by Roger Goodell, but the NFL must wait for Smith, who is 19 years old and playing like a multi-time All-Pro.

The simple explanation was that the Buckeyes were inspired or refocused after losing to Michigan, or that the coaching staff was compelled to remove restrictions from the game plan. Each theory likely has some truth, but the other is that Ohio State played like a top team for a large portion of the season, faltered against a rival on a November day, and then bounced back to become the formidable team it is today.

Ohio State revealed its cards by splintering Oregon and crushing Tennessee, and it is now impossible to hide. Favorite status was taken away from the Buckeyes. Do they have strength?

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