By Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The last time Ohio State’s football team played in the BCS National Championship was at the end of the 2007 season. The Buckeyes got there by winning four non-conference games against lower-level Youngstown State and three other teams — Washington, Akron and Kent State — that finished a combined 11-26.

The Buckeyes heard some criticism about their schedule, lost at home to Illinois, didn’t play Iowa or Indiana in the Big Ten, didn’t have Nebraska in the conference and didn’t face a Big Ten title game at the end of the regular season.

And in the end, they had a chance to win it all, which is kind of the point of the whole thing.

Consider what Ohio State might have to face a decade later in pursuit of that same goal. If, as expected, the Big Ten agrees on a nine-game conference schedule that would likely debut in 2017, the situation would be far different than 2007…….
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