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Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — As Monday night hurtled toward Tuesday morning, Ryan Day hustled into the head coach enclave in the Ohio State locker room at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Day opened his office fridge, cracked a 16-ounce Garage beer, poured it into a to-go cup festooned with smiling Buckeyes faces and bounded toward the team

Ben BabyJan 22, 2025, 04:46 PM ET Close Ben Baby covers the Cincinnati Bengals for ESPN. He joined the company in July 2019. Prior to ESPN, he worked for various newspapers in Texas, most recently at The Dallas Morning News where he covered college sports. He provides daily coverage of the Bengals for ESPN.com, while

Ohio State won the national championship. Ohio State had the most talented roster in the country. The first is an incontrovertible fact. The second is, technically, an opinion — one shared by everyone on ESPN’s committee selecting the top 100 players of the 2024-25 season — but it’d be tough to come up with a

Eli LedermanJan 21, 2025, 06:01 PM ET Close Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World. Open Extended Reactions Class of 2025 quarterback Au’Tori Newkirk has committed to North Carolina, he told ESPN on Tuesday, continuing

Associated Press Jan 21, 2025, 04:28 PM ET Pete Medhurst, a longtime radio broadcaster for Navy athletics, has died. He was 55. Navy’s athletic department spoke with Medhurst’s family and announced his death on social media Tuesday. The Capital Gazette reported in late October that Medhurst was having surgery for a brain tumor. Medhurst was

Max OlsonJan 21, 2025, 12:45 PM ET Close Covers the Big 12 Joined ESPN in 2012 Graduate of the University of Nebraska Open Extended Reactions Ohio State quarterback Devin Brown has signed with Cal, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. After winning a national championship with the Buckeyes on Monday night, Ohio State’s No. 2 quarterback

Associated Press Jan 21, 2025, 10:45 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Ohio State was No. 1 in the final Associated Press Top 25 college football poll of the season Tuesday after beating Notre Dame for its first national championship since 2014. The Buckeyes (14-2) received every first-place vote following their mostly dominant run through the

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterJan 21, 2025, 01:54 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — The 2025 edition of the College Football Playoff National Championship game was not about vengeance. It wasn’t about proving people

Heather Dinich, Senior College Football InsiderJan 21, 2025, 01:29 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — Following his team’s 34-23 loss to Ohio State in Monday night’s College Football Playoff National Championship game, Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman sat in the middle of

David Purdum, ESPN Staff WriterJan 20, 2025, 11:20 PM ET Close Joined ESPN in 2014 Journalist covering gambling industry since 2008 Open Extended Reactions The top two favorites to win next season’s College Football Playoff will square off in Week 1, when Ohio State hosts Texas on Aug. 30. Texas +450 Ohio State +500 Penn

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJan 20, 2025, 11:09 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — Ohio State’s high-powered offense proved to be too much for Notre Dame in the Buckeyes’ 34-23 victory in Monday’s national title game.

Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterJan 20, 2025, 11:08 PM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — Seven weeks and two days ago, Ohio State coach Ryan Day watched as Michigan planted its flag at midfield inside the Horseshoe, chaos ensuing: fans chanting “F—

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJan 20, 2025, 11:20 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — Maybe Ohio State football fans will like coach Ryan Day now. Fifty-one days after suffering the worst loss of his career, Day

Open Extended Reactions It all comes down to this. Editor’s Picks 1 Related On Monday night, the Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the College Football Playoff National Championship game. A win would mark Ohio State’s first title since the 2014 season, while a Notre Dame title would be the

Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterJan 19, 2025, 06:20 PM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said Sunday that the league will have conversations among coaches and athletic directors about whether to make changes to its conference championship game

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJan 19, 2025, 06:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — Rocco Spindler still remembers the feeling that permeated the air in South Bend, Indiana, during late November in 2021. The Notre Dame offensive lineman — then a freshman — and his teammates had just finished an 11-1 season only to be hit

Heather Dinich, Senior College Football InsiderJan 19, 2025, 03:50 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA, Ga. — No major decisions were made regarding the future format of the 12-team College Football Playoff on Sunday, but “tweaks” to the 2025 season haven’t been ruled

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterJan 19, 2025, 09:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — “Think traditionally, but without traditional thinking.” Those were the words of Ross Bjork, the still-new Ohio State athletic director during