Oregon State averaged 6.3 yards per carry and scored three rushing touchdowns in its aforementioned win over Utah on Oct. In terms of expected points added per rush, Oregon’s offense ranks 10th and Utah’s defense ranks 76th. The Ducks lead the nation in rushing success rate, while the Utes’ defense is a middling 55th in that measure. If there’s any advantage to be had here, it’s Oregon’s rushing offense, which is pretty good, against Utah’s rushing defense, which is fairly pedestrian. A loss would make the Ducks decidedly unworthy of the playoff and send the Pac-12 into yet another offseason of soul-searching. The two teams actually aren’t all that different in an overall statistical sense, with the Ducks ranked 14th in the SP+ efficiency metric and the Utes 21st, but Oregon has that win over Ohio State and thus has been deemed worthy of a playoff berth by the CFP selection committee (never mind its loss to a bad Stanford team). That would be three-loss Utah, can’t-beat-middling-Oregon-State Utah, trouble-putting-away-awful-Arizona Utah.
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Alabama Crimson Tide football series history and all-time records, national championships. Returning to point-spread weirdness, Utah is around a 3.5-point favorite against Oregon in a likely preview of the Pac-12 championship game. Winsipedia - Database and infographics of Ohio State Buckeyes vs. The Buckeyes also average 10 yards on each passing attempt, tops among teams with at least 200 pass plays this season. But the Spartans allowed season highs in points (40) and passing yards (536) in the loss to Purdue, and Ohio State leads the nation in scoring offense (46.3 points per game) and yards per play (8.03). The Spartans’ best hope might be the Buckeyes’ propensity for fizzling out inside the 20 - though Ohio State ranks 10th nationally in red-zone scoring percentage, it’s only 41st in red-zone touchdown percentage - and the chance that they’re looking ahead to next weekend’s game at Michigan. Ohio State certainly seems deserving of its heavy-favorite status, considering the eight straight games it has won since an early-season loss to Oregon and Michigan State’s stumble at Purdue on Nov. Broadening our parameters slightly further, only 10 top 10 teams have been favored by at least 18 points over another top 10 team since 1980. Ohio State is favored by somewhere around 19 points against Michigan State, a massive spread for a game featuring two highly ranked teams: Per ESPN’s Chris Fallica, we’ve seen such a large spread in a game featuring two Associated Press top seven teams only once before, in 2013 when No.
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