ESPN analyst calls Ohio State ‘least-tested No. 1 team in the history of college football’
By Jacob Moss
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The 2025 college football regular season is rapidly approaching its endpoint, and that means that all eyes are starting to turn towards the College Football Playoff and which teams are in the running to win it all.
At the top of just about every list when it comes to this debate is the Ohio State Buckeyes, who have been the top-ranked team in the nation since usurping the Texas Longhorns from that position back in Week 1.
ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky and Josh Pate sat down with Mike Greenberg on Get Up Thursday morning to discuss whether Ohio State will be the ones lifting the National Championship trophy at the end of the year, and Orlovsky believes the Buckeyes haven’t really been tested.
“They’re the least-tested No. 1 team in the history of college football,” Orlovsky said. “They’ve played nobody. Week 1, Texas, but ever since then, they haven’t played anybody. They have been trailing for 1 second in the second half this season. We have no idea how good this Ohio State team is.”
Pate actually agreed with Orlovsky’s assessment of the Buckeyes, saying that if they aren’t who everybody thinks they are, then the CFP could become very wide open.
“He’s actually right, and that’s not a knock on them (Ohio State),” Pate said. “… Ohio State holds all the cards right now, because if they are as good as they look, then it’s them and everybody else… If there are flaws, then we go from one North Star and everybody else to literally 10 different teams who could win this whole thing.”
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