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Ohio State celebrates national championship run amid change and farewells
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State, the first team to run the gauntlet of four playoff games on its way to the national title, celebrated with 30,000 Buckeyes fans on Sunday at Ohio Stadium. Fans braved 30-degree temperatures to welcome home a team that beat five top-10 rivals on its...
Ohio State celebrates and gets ready for all the changes coming to college football in 2025
ATLANTA (AP) — The early betting favorite to win next year's national championship: Ohio State. The question nobody can really answer at this time: What sort of sport will the Buckeyes or anyone else return to when they kick it off again seven months from now. A...
Ohio State wins 1st national title since 2014, outlasting Notre Dame 34-23 in CFP championship game
ATLANTA (AP) — The pass seemed to hang up there forever. Did it feel like seven weeks? Did it feel like 10 years? What a great debate for Ohio State fans to have forever. When that teardrop of a throw from Buckeyes quarterback Will Howard on third-and-11 finally...
Ohio State QB Will Howard played his best in run to national title, and set a record along the way
ATLANTA (AP) — Will Howard transferred to Ohio State to win a national championship, and he reached that goal by playing the best football of his career throughout the Buckeyes' four games in the College Football Playoff. He was never better than in the first half and at the end of...
CFP Notebook: Freeman and Day say fiery pregame speeches unnecessary when playing for championship
ATLANTA (AP) — As far as coaches Marcus Freeman of Notre Dame and Ryan Day of Ohio State are concerned, those dramatic pregame speeches that inspire a football team to victory are the stuff of Hollywood. Both said Sunday they have nothing special planned for their final words in...
Buckeyes, Irish used humbling losses as springboards to their national championship game showdown
ATLANTA (AP) — Before the first 12-team College Football Playoff even started, there were already plenty of people suggesting changes for determining future national champions. Ohio State (13-2) and Notre Dame (14-1) aren't quibbling, at least not this year. Had it...
At Notre Dame, the first 'America's Team,' they wake the echoes on a run to another national title
ATLANTA (AP) — Between Touchdown Jesus, “Win One for the Gipper," Rudy, and, yes, even the forward pass, there are those who believe football wouldn’t quite be football without Notre Dame. With the Fighting Irish waking up the echoes and playing for a title again after a...
Notre Dame and Ohio State arrive in Atlanta and it's the 2nd visit of the season for Fighting Irish
ATLANTA (AP) — Ohio State and Notre Dame arrived in Atlanta on charter flights Friday as the teams moved closer to the College Football Playoff national championship game Monday night. The Buckeyes are big favorites but the Fighting Irish might have an advantage. Coach Marcus...
Ohio State has slowly paced itself on offense all the way to the national championship game
Ohio State has been purposely pacing itself on offense all season, huddling more and trying to limit the number of snaps in each game of what the Buckeyes hoped and anticipated would be a long run. “I know it sounds crazy, the huddle, it’s almost like going back in time,” coach...
Notre Dame, Ohio State in uncharted territory: They're playing 16-game seasons for the 1st time
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The year was 1894. Yale put together a football schedule that was daunting: Games on Wednesdays and Saturdays, basically every week from late September to late November, 16 contests in all. No major college football team — what we now call the FBS level...
