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And ND has has played a tougher schedule than OSU even outside of those 3.

OSU has played nobody and will play nobody all year until the conference championship that won't count for standings purposes.

That OSU admittedly probably has a decent team does not excuse playing zero competition and walking into a playoff as a top seed..

This is especially the case when you schedule the Ohio U. & Gramblings of the world on top of an already weak Big 10 schedule. What are we calling 4-4 Rutgers, 3-4 Penn St., 2-6 Wisconsin, 2-6 Purdue, and 3-5 UCLA quality wins this year? That's 7 of their games right there. They don't even play the best teams in their own conference in Oregon, Indiana, USC, or Iowa.

Seriously why even bother playing a regular season? They shouldn't even be considered for the playoffs without a qualifying schedule. Put them in the SEC and they'd have 3 losses by now.

If playing UM, Minn. and Washington every year equates to a playoff bid, I'd take that all day long. I'd argue ND's 2 losses count for more than any of OSU's wins this year. And it's not the first time OSU has played this kind of schedule. Last year they started with Akron. W. Mich., and Marshall.