With road games against College Football Playoff contenders Oklahoma and Michigan State, Big Ten contenders Wisconsin and Penn State and the regular-season finale against rival Michigan, Ohio State's 2016 schedule is one of the most difficult in all of college football this year.

This would have been a great schedule for last year's loaded team, which looked like it was sleepwalking through most of its walkover slate. But with 16 new starters this year, the young Buckeyes will have a hard time keeping pace in the playoff race.

How will head coach Urban Meyer's fifth Ohio State team fare this fall?

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