Ohio State Buckeyes

The Ohio State Buckeyes allowed 8.15 points a game in 2025, the fewest of all 136 FBS teams, and their games went under the total nine times in 13. They were favored in every game and still covered ten, a rate only three FBS teams beat.

Favored every week, covering most weeks

Ohio State won its first 12 and finished 12-1, the loss a 10-13 defeat to Indiana in the Big Ten Championship as 3.5-point favorites. The Buckeyes were never an underdog. Against the spread they went 10-3: 6-1 at home, 4-1 away, and the Indiana miss on the neutral field. Three other FBS teams matched that cover rate.

The three misses: 37-9 over Ohio at -28.5, 34-10 at Purdue at -30.5, and Indiana. Bigger numbers than those were covered: 70-0 over Grambling at -51.5 and 48-10 over UCLA at -32.5.

Built for the under

We read every Ohio State total against the defense first. Opponents scored 8.15 a game; Wisconsin was held to 0 in a 34-0 road win and Minnesota to 3. Nine of the 13 went under; only six FBS teams had a higher under rate, and two matched it. The opener, 14-7 over Texas, went under a 46.5 total.

Not much in the moneyline

Five of the 13 games had no posted moneyline, and four of the other eight were priced shorter than -1000. One unit on the Buckeyes in the eight priced games returned 0.27 units; the Indiana loss at -180 took a full unit off it.

The season ended in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Cotton Bowl, a 14-24 loss to Miami.

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