The Ohio State Buckeyes only know of one way to move up the College Football Playoff rankings - to win.
Everything else at this point is just noise.
"You know, the only thing we can control is winning every game that we can, win the Big Ten," Buckeyes offensive guard Pat Elflein said, via Austin Ward of ESPN.com. "I see the rankings, and it's like, you want to be in the top four, but you have to control what you can control and the rest is up to whoever decides that."
Head coach Urban Meyer concurs with Elflein's assessment, saying the focus is on taking care of business in the here and now. Thus, the Buckeyes' focus remains on taking care of business against the Indiana Hoosiers and in November in general.
"We wake up every day to compete for championships in November," Meyer said. "It's at the doorstep now.
"We are lightsout a much better football team than we were at the beginning of the season, and that's a credit to the players and the assistant coaches for getting them there. But those kind of conversations [about the playoff] I think take place in [the media]. They certainly don't take place within locker rooms, not that I'm aware of."
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