Ohio State will complete a season that almost never happened by competing for college football’s biggest prize on Monday night.
Exactly five months to the day that the Big Ten initially decided to cancel its fall football season, which would have prevented the Buckeyes from participating in this year’s College Football Playoff, Ohio State will face Alabama in the season-ending national championship game at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, at 8 p.m. Monday (ESPN).
All the adversity Ohio State has had to overcome along the way, from at one point having no season at all to the unending challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, make its opportunity to play on the sport’s grandest stage even more special than it would be in a normal year.