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To make a playoff run, Ohio State will need to exorcise their Happy Valley demons

In college football, there’s no such thing as a perfect team, nor a perfect season. It’s simply the nature of the sport. Football is an extremely difficult sport to dominate, because there are so many moving pieces, so many variables and things that can change from week to week. In the NFL, the highest possible form of football, players and teams make mistakes, get upset by lesser foes, and have let down games.

Now a sport that is already makes it nearly impossible to piece together a perfect season, and then try to do it with rosters filled entirely of 18 to 23-year-olds.