COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Buckeyes do not control their own destiny in the race for a berth in college football’s national championship game so they must keep winning to keep the hope alive.
Their next chance comes when Penn State visits Ohio Stadium tonight (8:00 p.m./ABC6).
Ohio State (7-0, 3-0 in the Big Ten) was ranked fourth in the first BCS Standings, released Sunday. The trailed Alabama, Florida State and Oregon, all of whom are also unbeaten, so the Buckeyes will need help from someone who can hand at least two of those teams their first losses of the season.
Head coach Urban Meyer told his players that day to embrace the fact that they were “in the mix.”
“People think very highly of you, maybe some people don’t. You just have to go out and be the best team on the field on Saturdays, not in the country,” Meyer says he told his team.
The Buckeyes ran the nation’s longest winning streak to 19 games with a 34-24 win over Iowa last week.
OSU beat the Nittany Lions (4-2, 1-1) last season, 35-23.