Ohio State begins a pivotal and challenging stretch of football on Saturday night when they welcome Penn State to The Shoe. The 20th-ranked Nittany Lions were looking to get right after a close loss against Iowa nearly three weeks ago, and Illinois afforded them an opportunity to do so last weekend… <Morgan Freeman voice:> “The Nittany Lions did not, in fact, take advantage of that opportunity.”
The powers that be tried to give Penn State back-to-back bye weeks before their biggest game of the year, and instead, they squandered away their CFP chances by dropping a hilariously-awful thriller to Bret Bielema and the Fighting Illini.