Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss the Buckeyes' College Football Playoff path and upcoming matchups with Penn State and Indiana. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Ohio State can get in the playoff at 10 and two.

That would, that would give them one good win over Indiana.

The schedule is not breaking big and, and Michigan's looking at a six and six season.

So, you know, where's your, where's your, your good wins?

They got Purdue after this.

Northwestern Indiana is the big one and in Michigan and it's hysterical that we're saying Indiana is the big one and then Michigan.

But that's, yeah, I don't know what to tell you.

Um, Indiana is eight.

No, has won every game by 14 points at least and hasn't trailed.

Yeah, that's what Ohio State was supposed to be.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Uh, but all this pressure, they lost by one at Oregon, number one team in the country, but they don't look like they're supposed to look, they didn't look like they're supposed to look against, uh, against, uh, Nebraska and they averaged 2.1 yards a rush.

Like what, you know, what is going on, this offensive line is not great and it's injure, they got injuries, they lost a player.

So there, there's a significant bit where you say, all right, can, you know, is this where Penn State's defensive line can make a move.

There's a, there's an ad there's a potential advantage for Penn.

I don't think you go into too many games with, oh, with Ohio State, unless you're Georgia, maybe Michigan last year.

But where you go in and go, well, we got a, we got a, a, an advantage talent advantage somewhere what the Buckeye fans are looking at and saying this isn't what this team, this is not a, a dominant team.

I would say it's still October.

It doesn't really matter.

You'll forget about all this, but, uh, Saturday is a day to prove it and, and I, I don't know who's got more pressure, but there's a lot of pressure on both these coaches.

The warning sign for Ohio State was to come out of the loss to Oregon, which is not a bad loss.

It was a hell of a game, Ross and I were there.

It was a great game, have a week off though to marinate in that loss and then come out and really flail against Nebraska.

That's not what I expected at all.

It's kind of like when Alabama came out of the loss to Vanderbilt and flailed against South Carolina and you just wonder what isn't working right in there.

And you mentioned Dan, obviously the running game, the offensive line, there's, there's the obvious issue

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