Ohio State vs. Michigan: ESPN FPI updates prediction of game winner

The Ohio State Buckeyes football team is at the center of the Ohio sports ecosystem. The team is a regular in the College Football Playoff and is several years removed from a National Championship. Many in the state of Ohio, whether attendees of the school or people who live in the state, center their respective calendars around Buckeyes' games.…

Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterNov 25, 2023, 11:05 PM ET Last year, Ohio State's wins against Penn State and Notre Dame were enough to push the Buckeyes into the College Football Playoff without beating Michigan or winning the Big Ten East. Even with the same résumé, repeating that feat could prove difficult this season. With four undefeated…

It's not often that Ohio State isn't favored to win a given football game that it plays. It's only happened 12 times across the last 12 seasons. Since Urban Meyer took over the program prior to the 2012 season and handed the keys over to Ryan Day seven years later, the Buckeyes have an 8-3 overall record as underdogs and a 9-2 mark against the…

This one's for all the marbles. Or at least, most of the marbles. Ohio State vs. Michigan always feels like it carries the weight of the college football world on its shoulders. Purposefully scheduled for the final week of the regular season, it's the perfect way to cap off an exciting year on the gridiron. It also serves as an amuse-bouche for…

Now that Turkey Day is behind us, it is time to start turning our collective attention to The Game on Saturday - as if that hasn't already been occupying every single thought that we've had for the past month. We have had a ton of conversations with college football experts in the podcast feed this week (and we will have more before kickoff),…

Every week during the 2023 college football season, we've been keeping tabs on what ESPN's FPI (Football Power Index) Matchup Predictor has said about Ohio State football's chances of winning each regular season game. It's ebbed and flowed throughout the season and had the Buckeyes as favorites in every game for most of the year. However, as both…

The most anticipated game of the 2023 college football season takes place inside Michigan Stadium on Saturday. The Michigan Wolverines host the Ohio State Buckeyes in a Big Ten clash that will likely decide a College Football Playoff berth. Michigan comes into Week 13 with a two-game winning streak over its long-time rival. Ohio State has not…

College football odds and metrics ebb and flow with the results on the field, and it's no different with Ohio State football and the ESPN FPI Matchup Predictor we like to check in on every week. When the ESPN sauce was originally made with some Scarlet and Gray at the beginning of the season, it was a savory one with the Buckeyes enjoying the…

Week 1 of the college football season saw one big upset among expected contenders for College Football Playoff spots with Clemson losing at Duke. Florida State also made a statement with a lopsided win against LSU. As a result, both teams are on the move in how my projection model views their CFP chances. According to the projections, Georgia is…

Florida football is heading into 2023 with rather tempered expectations compared to the program's standards, with the betting line being 5.5 wins for this fall. But some metrics are a little higher on the Gators and like them to not only go over that number but blow by it. ESPN's FPI gives a percentage chance for teams to win each game they play…

Hot take: Every Big Ten football team will lose a game in 2023. Only that take isn't nearly as scorching as you think. No Big Ten team has run the table since Ohio State in 2002. Even Ohio State's 2014 national championship team had a blemish, losing to Virginia Tech in Week 2. The Buckeyes reached the inaugural College Football Playoff as the No.…

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If you're eager to bet on Ohio State football this season, there's already plenty of wagers you can make. Even though the start of the season is still more than three months away, betting lines have been released for half of Ohio State's 12 regular-season games this year. Sportsbooks have also put out futures odds for which team will win the…

The two schools and their fans hate each other so much that they couldn't bear to be apart - talk about a toxic relationship. So, when the Big Ten was being split into two divisions in 2010 and the programs would be forced to be split apart, the fanatics grew frantic. An abundance of emails were sent to the commissioner until it was agreed The Game…

For about six days, Ohio State's odds to win the College Football Playoff National Championship were as long as they had been all season. A 45-23 home loss to No. 2 Michigan on Nov. 26 kick-started a week of devastation as coach Ryan Day and the Buckeyes saw themselves, once again, missing out on a shot at the Big Ten championship following a…

ATLANTA - Ohio State isn't often an underdog when it takes the field, and the Buckeyes seem to be embracing the fact that defending national champion Georgia is a betting favorite to beat them in Saturday's College Football Playoff semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Bowl. The No. 1 Bulldogs opened as 6 ½-point favorites, according to Caesars Sportsbook,…

Week 12 in the Big Ten included surprising scares for the two best teams in the conference, as No. 2 Ohio State (11-0) escaped a close one at Maryland (6-5) and No. 3 Michigan (11-0) needed a last-minute field goal to survive against Illinois (7-4) at home. A possible explanation is that both teams were already looking ahead to Week 13, when…

Week 12 in the Big Ten included surprising scares for the two best teams in the conference, as No. 2 Ohio State (11-0) escaped a close one at Maryland (6-5) and No. 3 Michigan (11-0) needed a last-minute field goal to survive against Illinois (7-4) at home. A possible explanation is that both teams were already looking ahead to Week 13, when…

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No. 2 Ohio State meets No. 3 Michigan at Ohio Stadium on Saturday in a clash of 11-0 teams. The Big Ten championship, College Football Playoff, Heisman Trophy and bragging rights in the greatest rivalry in college sports are among the stakes in Columbus. "One of the beauties of this thing is there are no second chances," New York Times bestselling…

The No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes have a huge showdown with No. 3 Michigan coming up next week, but they will first meet with Maryland during the Week 12 college football schedule. Maryland has lost three of its last four games, including a 30-0 loss at Penn State last week. The Terrapins are 27.5-point underdogs in the latest Week 12 college football…

Things are coming into focus and a few conference races are tight as can be as the finish line is in sight for another epic season. Georgia is now favored to win the title with shorter than even money for the first time this season. The Bulldogs are now listed at -120 to win it all, with Ohio State next at+240 and Michigan third at+700. The…

Week 12 in the Big Ten included surprising scares for the two best teams in the conference, as No. 2 Ohio State (11-0) escaped a close one at Maryland (6-5) and No. 3 Michigan (11-0) needed a last-minute field goal to survive against Illinois (7-4) at home. A possible explanation is that both teams were already looking ahead to Week 13, when…

The Ohio State football team enjoyed a bye in Week 6, and it was a much-needed. It gave the Buckeyes a chance to get some of its most important players who were nursing injuries time to heal. Six games into the season and it's pretty clear all of the goals Ohio State had at the beginning of the campaign are still in play, including a Big Ten…

Observations on Saturday's Ohio State-Michigan State game by Joey Kaufman: • Short-attention span synopsis: The Buckeyes ace their road test with another Big Ten beatdown. Points came by air rather than ground. C.J. Stroud's Heisman Trophy push revs up. Consider it a midseason stride. Michigan State has dipped in weight classes. • Pregame…