Ohio State and Oregon face off in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal rematch. Both teams are aiming to advance in the tournament after impressive performances. The Buckeyes are looking for revenge after a close loss to the Ducks earlier in the season.
On Jan. 1, Ohio State gets a shot at something no other Buckeye team has gotten before – revenge against a squad that beat them earlier in the season. over Tennessee and eager for some getback after the Ducks dusted them 32-31 in Eugene earlier this year.
Ohio State’s only other rematches since the start of the 20th century came in 2017 against Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game and in the 1976 Rose Bowl against UCLA, but OSU won both meetings with the Badgers that year and the first meeting against the Bruins before losing to UCLA in Pasadena. Ohio State's second meeting with Oregon comes with much greater stakes. Both teams are battling to keep their seasons alive and advance through the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes re-engineered their defense after their defeat in Autzen Stadium and have born great fruits, allowing no more than 17 points in any game since that loss on Oct. 12. Oregon's been a juggernaut all year but isn't without flaws. Its offense and defense have each limped through some victories, though the same arsenal of weapons that gave Ohio State's secondary fits is still in place.Those with enough of an interest in Ohio State, Oregon or college football in general to be reading this sentence know that the Ducks were crowned Big Ten champions on Dec. 7. They beat Penn State, a fellow quarterfinalist in the CFP, by a 45-37 margin in the conference title game. Five of Oregon's seven wins since beating the Buckeyes have come by 21 points or more. That includes a 38-9 shelling of then-No. 20 Illinois and a 38-17 win at Michigan. The Ducks were No. 1 in every edition of the College Football Playoff rankings and earned the No. 1 seed and a first-round bye in the CFP. It's odd that their reward for such efforts is a meeting with the team that had arguably the best first-round showing in the CFP, Ohio Stat
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