There are elements inherent to Ohio State’s 2024 national championship run that separate it from the eight others in school history.
As the victors of the first 12-team playoff in college football, last year’s Buckeyes were the first team, period, to win four College Football Playoff games on their journey to hoist a national championship trophy. That gauntlet included undefeated No. 1 Oregon, No. 3 Texas, No. 5 Notre Dame and No. 7 Tennessee, based on the CFP committee’s final rankings (not the CFP seeding after conference championships shifted things around).
But when a storied program like the one that calls Columbus its home completes a championship tale, there are always echoes of the past.