College Football Week 3 Early Odds, Picks & Prediction: Ohio State vs. Toledo (2022)
Let’s take a look at the College Football Week 3 odds, picks, and predictions for this week’s game: Ohio State vs. Toledo.
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College Football Week 3 Early Odds, Picks & Prediction: Ohio State vs. Toledo
WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba missed Saturday's blowout victory over Arkansas State with the hamstring injury that knocked him out of the opening-week win over Notre Dame. Smith-Njigba is expected to miss this weekend's game against Toledo, too.
OSU was also without WR Julian Fleming against the Red Wolves. Fleming warmed up before the game against the Fighting Irish and also before Saturday's game against ASU but was unable to play in either. OSU HC Ryan Day expects Fleming back this weekend against Toledo.
With Smith-Njigba down, youngsters Marvin Harrison Jr. (7-184-3) and Emeka Egbuka (4-118-1) each went off against the Red Wolves. Both will get peppered with targets again against Toledo. If Fleming is active, he would give the Buckeyes the legitimate WR3 they didn't have against ASU.
DC Jim Knowles said after the opening-week win over Notre Dame that the Buckeyes played "rather basic" defense that night and that there were a "lot of things we haven't shown." That remained the case after the win over Arkansas State, and will likely be the case after the Toledo game, too.
Expect Knowles to open up his bag of tricks when Big 10 play opens. Early returns on Knowles' unit have been extremely positive, for whatever that's worth.
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