With the above said, I REALLY don't think that Ohio State will actually finish that well. As noted in the post above, the Buckeyes have more remaining games than any other B1G team. The SoS of what the Buckeyes have left is surprisingly light for this league in part because the two postponed games that the Buckeyes need to make up were both home games. In part because of that the Buckeyes have six home games and only two road games remaining. Furthermore, one of the road games is a game that Ohio State should probably win at Maryland. Thus, we project the Buckeyes to go 7-1 over their final eight games. That would be great but . . .
There are three weeks and three weekends left in the season:
- Week of Mon, Feb 14 - Fri, Feb 18
- Weekend of Sat/Sun, Feb 19/20
- Week of Mon, Feb 21 - Fri, Feb 25
- Weekend of Sat/Sun, Feb 26/27
- Week of Mon, Feb 28 - Fri, Mar 4
- Weekend of Sat/Sun, Mar 5/6
Half the league (IL, UW, RU, IU, NU, UMD, UNL) has six games left and for them it is pretty straight forward, they have one game each week (usually Tue, Wed, or Thur) and one game each weekend (Sat or Sun).
One team (PU) has only five games left so they are same as above except that they get the week of Feb 21-25 off.
Five teams (MSU, IA, M, PSU, MN) have seven games left so they each have one of those weeks doubled up. All are in this situation due to an earlier missed game (MSU@M, IA@tOSU, MvMSU, PSUvMN, MN@PSU).
That leaves Ohio State. The Buckeyes need to squeeze eight games into what would normally only be six slots. They had yesterday off and they have today off then a game on Tuesday then three days off, then the storm:
- Sat, 2/19 vs IA
- Mon, 2/21 vs IU
- Thur, 2/24 @ IL
- Sun, 2/27 @ UMD
- Tue, 3/1 vs UNL
- Thur, 3/3 vs MSU
In 13 days the Buckeyes will play seven games. The last three of those are all projected wins but frankly, as an Ohio State fan I'll be thrilled if Ohio State goes 2-1 in those.
