IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Say goodbye to Ohio State.
The Buckeyes aren't going to the College Football Playoff this year. Not after a stunning, 55-24 loss Saturday at Iowa, the highest point total allowed by an Urban Meyer-coached Ohio State team.
Not even the CFP committee, which in its three-year history has vaulted the Buckeyes over another Power-5 champion on the final week in 2014 and picked Ohio State when it failed to play for the Big Ten title last year, can save Meyer this time.
Iowa blitzed the sixth-ranked Buckeyes (7-2, 5-1 Big Ten), scoring on Amani Hooker's pick-six of J.