From the booth

The model favored OSU to win, and the call missed.

Ohio State comes in as a slight favorite in this one, sitting at 55 percent win probability, and the Buckeyes have earned it with their top ranking and the way they've been playing over their last five games. Texas gets the home field advantage and their defense has been solid in that recent stretch, but that's only enough to get them to 45 percent, and Vegas has this one basically a pick with Ohio State getting the nod by a point and a half. This is championship-level football right here, folks, a number one team on the road against a top five squad that's hungry to prove something.