For just the third time in the last nine years, the Ohio State Buckeyes failed to reach the Big Ten championship game after being wiped off the field by the Michigan running attack in Ann Arbor in 2021. As James Franklin’s Penn State program has fallen further off the map than any of us imagined (their 31-17 mark is safely nestled between Minnesota’s 30-16 run in the same period and Tom Herman’s 32-18 record in four years at Texas, wonderful company), the season once against seems to be on the l…