Toughest stretch: Ohio State Buckeyes

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The realistic goals might not all be the same, but across the league every team at some point has to face a crucial stretch to reach its potential.

Whether it’s simply making it to a bowl game or trying to win the Big Ten and head to the College Football Playoff, there’s a three- or four-game, make-or-break portion of the schedule that is going to determine that fate for everybody.

All week long, the Big Ten reporting crew is identifying those pivotal weeks around the conference and what they might mean this fall. Up next: Ohio State.

Toughest stretch: Weeks 7 through 10 (at Wisconsin, at Penn State, Northwestern, Nebraska).

Why: Narrowed down to a two-week segment, there’s no question that Ohio State’s consecutive showdowns with Michigan State and rival Michigan at the end of November stand out as the toughest part of …

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