and forgot cincy played 2 OOC games to start the year

>and in an 8 team playoff I’m going to put 1 team from each
>of the power 5 schools in my hypothetical.

the issue is that you didn't want OSU as top 4 in the current system

>no, I don’t think USC is anything
>special but they are undefeated and probably faced
>“better” competition than OSU this year.

def not better. at best I would give it a push because both conferences have sucked and it's not really worth analyzing team by team. but there are several teams in the B1G that would beat sc, including indiana and psu who were on osu's schedule. sc has made it a habit in recent years of losing/getting pushed around by mediocre B1G teams in bowl games.