The Ohio State Buckeyes are heading into the Big Ten Championship game with a chance to get into the national title game and Michigan State is the team standing in the way and on Saturday night, OSU and the Spartans will meet at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis for the conference title and it will be a matchup of teams ranked in the top 10 and the game for OSU and Michigan State starts up at 8:17 pm on FOX from Indy for the Big Ten conference championship game.
Michigan State comes in with the best ranked offense in the nation and Ohio State has one of the best offenses coming against it, so it will be strength against strength and whoever wins that battle could be the team that wins on Saturday night. Ohio State hasn't lost a game in two years and while things got close last week against Michigan, OSU is now ready to try and face Florida State, who has to beat Duke to advance to the national championship and these two teams are the main undefeated teams in the nation and the matchup between OSU and their offense and the Michigan State defense should be the best battle of the game.
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Michigan State will need to play theirs best on offense and on defense to win, as Ohio State is ranked second in the nation in rushing yards per game and they have one of the best backs in the nation in Carlos Hyde and he went for 226 yards last week and he will be the main focus for both teams. The Buckeyes haven't lost in two years and they will get into the championship against FSU with a victory on Saturday night and they will play against their toughest opponent of the season in Michigan State and in an early test in the game, MSU had a fourth down situation with Jeremy Lankford and the team got it from Connor Cook and that is the type of game this should be.
The Spartans are going to try and take advantage of the Buckeyes secondary, as Devin Gardner and Michigan burned them last week for over 450 yards and Jeremy Gallon was nice with 175 yards and now the team will try and put up some yards and some points against a defense that has allowed just 20 points per game this season and the MSU defense has its hands full with a Buckeyes team that scored nearly 50 points per game during the season. Ohio State has been dominant all season and a place in the national title game is on the line for Saturday night and it would be another very quick turnaround for Urban Meyer after he won championships at Florida with Tim Tebow.