The Ohio State Buckeyes and the Indiana Hoosiers are on a crash course to see each other in the Big Ten Championship Game in early December. Both teams are head and shoulders above the rest of the Big Ten, and frankly, are head and shoulders above any other team in the country.

Ohio State has the personality of a stout NFL team. They huddle, slow the pace down, run the football, play good defense, and they metaphorically choke their opponent out of the contest.

Indiana, on the other hand, crushes their opponents in a different way. Head coach Curt Cignetti and his squad comes out of the locker room with their foot on the gas pedal, and they simply never take it off. The Hoosiers move with great pace, play really good defense, and have dominated every opponents not named Oregon. 

Both teams play the game of football in two different ways, but statistically, the Buckeyes and the Hoosiers have the two most efficient teams in America. 

The chart, via Parker Fleming on X, shows each team's offensive and defensive EPAs per play. EPA is Expected Points Added per play, which evaluates how many of the team's plays add and subtract points from their total. 

EPA is largely regarded as one of the strongest indicators of a team's efficiency and success, or lack thereof.

Football fans everywhere are picturing this early December game in Indianapolis for the right to receive a first-round bye in the 2025-26 College Football Playoffs. 

The Buckeyes need a challenger for both the Big Ten trophy and the National Championship trophy. A storyline that is gaining momentum is the thought that no one will be able to dethrone the Buckeyes for the remainder of the season.

Head coach Ryan Day and Ohio State will likely not be challenged in the regular season with their remaining schedule of Purdue, UCLA and Rutgers before a trip to Ann Arbor on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Certainly, the Michigan storyline is still widely considered to be a hurdle that the Buckeyes need to clear, but once it's cleared, they will have a postseason run in mind. 

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Last year, the Buckeyes showed that they peaked at the right time. This year, it is looking like they are doing the same thing with Day's squad yet to kick it into second gear this season. Ohio State will not be their best self until that matchup against Michigan. After that, it's all systems go, aiming towards Miami, Florida. 

A repeat is on the mind for the Buckeyes, while playing spoiler is the main priority for the Hoosiers. The two teams are destined to meet up in just a couple of weeks in what will be the best matchup of the 2025 season.