According to the 2022 team composite talent Penn St is 153 points behind Ohio St and only 136 ahead of Sparty but 180 ahead of Minnesota (who is behind Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Maryland, and northwestern as well). Michigan is 17 points higher than PSU if you were wondering.I don't understand all this respect for Michigan State and Minnesota by some of these posters. Anything less than 10-2 would be a major disappointment. Don't these people ever follow the recruiting rankings every year? Don't they realize who has more players currently in the NFL? A bigger talent gap exists with the Michigan State and Minnesota personnel in comparison to Penn State, than Penn State's talent shortage in comparison to Ohio State and Michigan. I think Penn State is more likely to upset Ohio State or Michigan than they are of losing at home to anybody else in the Big 10. Michigan State and Minny are at home. They are only going to lose to them if they suffer several key injuries.
But Ohio St is so far ahead in terms of team talent composite that they really should never lose a conference game or really a game to anyone not named Alabama or Georgia which should be coin flips. Ohio St has definitely underperformed with their talent as of late. Ohio St has nearly 50% more 5 stars on their roster than the entire big 10 combined.