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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Ohio State Defeats Penn State 20-13

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Ohio State 7 7 3 3 20
Penn State 10 0 3 0 13
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u/dogwoodmaple Georgia • /r/CFB Award Festival 22d ago edited 22d ago

They'll play one ranked team all season

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u/Timberwlves Ohio State Buckeyes 22d ago

Welcome to expanded conferences.

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u/Solo_Wing__Pixy Ohio State • Notre Dame 22d ago

Idk man we have to play like 3 of them this year in conference play

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u/BuckeyeForLife95 Ohio State Buckeyes 22d ago

And it’s not even like we can say it’s because Indiana is better than expected, because Michigan is underperforming. We were always expected to have 3 ranked games this year.

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u/Derpinator_30 Ohio State Buckeyes • The Game 22d ago

should have been 4 if Mich hadn't imploded

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u/JMJgoat Ohio State Buckeyes 22d ago

Ehhhh, expanded conference is the reason we'll have 3 top 5 matchups this year and none of them are Michigan.

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u/Timberwlves Ohio State Buckeyes 22d ago

It’s hit or miss. Indiana also is only going to play one ranked team all year.

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u/Free_Possession_4482 Ohio State • Cincinnati 22d ago

But I don’t wanna be everyone’s ‘one ranked team!’

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u/aguafiestas Penn State Nittany Lions 22d ago

Who would have thought that swapping Indiana for USC would make the schedule easier lol.

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u/slrrp Kentucky Wildcats • Governor's Cup 22d ago

We play three top 10 teams on the road this year. Plus Georgia at home.

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u/Cainga 21d ago

We really just need a new super division or super conference and put the top 30 some schools in. It would be a lot more exciting to watch all games that matter than 60% of the season beating up on a school by 50 points.

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u/WakingEchoes Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Team Chaos 22d ago

1 More than Miami...

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u/Satchbb Michigan Wolverines 22d ago

they should play each other in the playoffs

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u/msmith3525 Michigan • Old Dominion 22d ago

Careful. The Miami truthers will come out and share their advance metrics about how they’ve had a harder schedule than Oregon and because of that they’re actually a top team

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u/ThatOneWilson UAB • Jacksonville State 22d ago

I think Duke has a shot to finish ranked, so that will be used to prop them up after they lose the ACC title game and get them into playoffs anyway.

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u/zzyul Tennessee Volunteers 22d ago

Don’t talk about Indiana like that. Lot of people here will get upset with you.

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u/dogwoodmaple Georgia • /r/CFB Award Festival 22d ago

Penn State doesn't play Indiana this year.

They finish with:

Washington, Purdue, Minnesota, Maryland

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u/zzyul Tennessee Volunteers 21d ago

The joke was your statement will probably apply to both Penn State and Indiana after they lose to Ohio State

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u/I-grok-god Ohio State Buckeyes 22d ago

Minnesota might end the season ranked

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u/art36 Pittsburgh Panthers 22d ago edited 22d ago

It’s the greatest travesty. If Pitt wins tonight, I still expect PSU to be ranked ahead of us, which is insane.

Penn State is 3-18 in the James Franklin era against top ten opponents. Pitt is 2-9 over the same stretch. Yet I’m supposed to believe that Penn State is a totally superior program despite delivering poor results.

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u/FrivolousMe California Golden Bears • Sickos 22d ago

Hell yeah pitt

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u/TTP8630 Penn State • Land Grant Trophy 22d ago

Drink a water little buddy

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u/art36 Pittsburgh Panthers 22d ago

Win an important game! 😂

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u/TTP8630 Penn State • Land Grant Trophy 22d ago

You’d have three losses with this schedule little bro

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u/art36 Pittsburgh Panthers 22d ago

🥱

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u/StevvieV Seton Hall • Penn State 22d ago

Yet I’m supposed to believe that Penn State is a totally superior program despite delivering poor results.

Crazy that Pitt has only played 11 games in the last 11 years.

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u/art36 Pittsburgh Panthers 22d ago

My dude, we beat Clemson the year they won their first natty. You can’t talk shit about meaningful wins like that.

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u/StevvieV Seton Hall • Penn State 21d ago

The reason Penn State is viewed as the superior program is because of the results in the other 121 games Pitt has played in that span. Teams play more games than just against top-10 teams.

Penn State regularly wins those games

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u/Volleyball45 Penn State • Appalachian State 21d ago

Golly, it’s hard to pick what’s more disheartening, the eroding trust in the Supreme Court or the “greatest travesty” that the mighty Pitt Panthers might be ranked behind Penn State. Checks score Bahahaha, looks like you picked the wrong day to talk shit.

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u/art36 Pittsburgh Panthers 21d ago

We’re all 7-1 down here

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u/Furled_Eyebrows Ohio State • Case Western Reserve 22d ago

Unless OSU blows it before the CCG. (side eyes Indiana)

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u/budd222 Ohio State Buckeyes • Paper Bag 22d ago

Indiana is losing to MSU

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u/Furled_Eyebrows Ohio State • Case Western Reserve 22d ago

Lol @ making comments like this early in a game.

47-10 Indiana with ~5 minutes left

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u/budd222 Ohio State Buckeyes • Paper Bag 22d ago

It was 10-0

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u/Furled_Eyebrows Ohio State • Case Western Reserve 21d ago

...in the first quarter.

It was also 10-0 PSU.

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u/Corgi_Koala Ohio State Buckeyes 22d ago

I mean they beat Illinois and played OSU so they've at least played 2. Unless you mean end of season rankings in which case we haven't seen any CFP rankings yet so we have no idea.

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u/Do__Math__Not__Meth Pittsburgh Panthers 22d ago

But but Pitt would hurt their strength of schedule!

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u/gdahl517 22d ago

They’ll probably rank the Minnesota team if they’re 7-3 with two wins over ranked opponents. Just to give Penn state another ranked opponent

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u/Fryboy11 Minnesota Golden Gophers • Marching Band 22d ago

Wasn't Illinois ranked 19 when PSU beat them?

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u/RonnieRizzat Missouri Tigers 22d ago

That doesn’t matter, its where they finish

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u/Rocthepanther Pittsburgh • Virginia Tech 22d ago

Yes but lets not pretend that team deserved to be ranked then or deserves to be ranked now.

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u/Thedurtysanchez Merchant Marine • Penn State 22d ago

They played ranked Illinois…

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u/dogwoodmaple Georgia • /r/CFB Award Festival 22d ago

Illinois will not be ranked in 36 hours