Ohio State hasn’t experienced much adversity to start the 2024 season.
The Buckeyes have opened 3-0 with a 137-point victory margin, but Paul Finebaum isn’t particularly impressed. After all, the Big Ten program led the schedule with three non-conference home games against Akron, Western Michigan, and Marshall.
While recapping Week 4 on The Matt Barrie Show, Finebaum panned Ohio State for booking such an easy opening slate.
“What we’ve seen from Ohio State this year is really beyond words,” Finebaum said. “The fact that they took the road less traveled. They played the worst non-conference schedule I have seen.”
Finebaum wondered how Ohio State could justify those decisions, noting that Georgia had a cupcake 2023 start after replacing a matchup against the SEC-bound Oklahoma. The ESPN guru called the Buckeyes’ first three opponents “laughable.”
“What Ohio State has done is truly a travesty,” Finebaum continued. “And I know they won’t be held accountable because they’ll run the table with either no losses or one loss and it won’t matter, but it’s still embarassing. And it’s really a complete and total ripoff of the fanbase.”
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Finebaum compared Buckeyes fans to “sheep” before declaring that they should be “up in the arms” about those “garbage” home games.
The Buckeyes continued to annihilate the outmatched competition when tallying 569 yards in Saturday’s 49-14 win over the Thundering Herd. They’re third in the latest AP poll behind Texas and Georgia, but it’s hard to take much from Ohio State’s start until Ryan Day’s squad faces a more legitimate opponent.
Ohio State will open Big Ten play at Michigan State this Saturday night in a game streaming exclusively on Peacock.
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