The National Championship taken center stage tonight and the Power Play is on Ohio. St. Game 277 ay 8:30 eastern. The Buckeyes are the Cinderella story so far as they beat out TCU for the 4th spot after winning the big 10 championship 59-0 over Rival Wisconsin. Then they proceeded to show the country that they are no fluke knocking off the 2 seed Alabama 42-35. Now it gets tougher against an Oregon team with Heisman trophy winner M. Mariota. When looking at this game the firs thing that stand out is how close the teams are statistically. Oregon has a better offense but Ohio. St has a defense that was nearly 90 yards better. In games vs fellow bowl teams Ohio. St won the stats in all 11 games and Oregon all but one. The Simulation model run 100.000 times predicted a 2 point Oregon win. Ohio. St has won al 8 times in the series between these two and is a a tremendous 30-1 off 2 or more wins and 7-0 vs winning teams. They average 42 points on the road and rush for 280+ yards overall which is 40 or more than Oregon. Coach Urban Meyer teams are 12-1 ats as a dog off a dog win and is 15-4 to the spread vs a team that wins by more than 16 points. Oregon is 1-4 straight up as neutral favorites from -3.5 to -7 which is one of the few negative indicators against them. Thier win vs FSU was impressive but the game was close for nearly 3 quarters until Oregon took advantage of Turnovers. Both these teams will score tonight and The Buckeyes will be ready for the Oregon up tempo and may even implement it themselves. Ohio. St is 12-4 vs PAC 12 Teams and should be in this throughout. The Points are the play here with Ohio. St.