Through Grantland, ESPN dispatched Holly Anderson to posit the following (after predicting a Buckeye NC-repeat):
Anderson: About that earlier statement that Ohio State is so well-equipped for back-to-back championships: The Buckeyes aren’t resting on any laurels now, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be tempted to come, say, late November. The first real dogfight for OSU will be the Michigan State game, and after a hard-fought win the Buckeyes will cruise into Ann Arbor high on their own power and lose a spectacularly boneheaded game. Oh, they’ll still win the title, but Michigan will be this season’s transitive national champs, and neither fan base will ever let the other one hear the end of it, between now and the heat death of the universe.
