The difficulty of Ohio State’s 2025 regular-season schedule can be broken down into four tiers.
Three games should be easy blowout victories for the Buckeyes unless they badly underperform. Four other games look like they should be comfortable wins for Ohio State, too, though they won’t necessarily be cakewalks. Three games stand out above the rest as the three biggest tests that could make or break Ohio State’s season, but a pair of road games in the first half of the season should also be circled as challenges the Buckeyes can’t overlook.
In order to assess the projected difficulty of Ohio State’s 12 regular-season games, I asked Eleven Warriors staffers to rank the 12 games on the schedule from the one they’re most confident the Buckeyes will win to the one they’re most concerned the Buckeyes could lose.