The Ohio State football team moved to 5-0 after a 49-10 blowout win against Rutgers. Now, it’s on to its first road contest, against Michigan State, next Saturday. The Buckeyes may have looked like a rusty, first-game unit against Notre Dame during Week 1, but since then, OSU has looked more like the team we all thought it would.
But what about the national narrative, or rather, what does ESPN’s Football Percentage Index say about the Buckeyes? Each week, the matchup predictor ESPN updates Ohio State’s chances of winning each game based on the results across the country, and each week we see the needle move a little for each game.
