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Ohio State Not Worried About Winning Recruiting Crown Over Alabama As National Championship Game Approaches

The Hurry-Up is your nightly dose of updates from the Ohio State football recruiting trail, keeping tabs on the latest from commits and targets from around the country.

“Not really interested” in recruiting crown

When Ohio State won its last national championship at the end of the 2014 season, the program did so on the back of rosters made up of recruiting classes in 2011 (No. 6 ranking), 2012 (No. 5), 2013 (No. 2) and 2014 (No. 3), none of which finished as the No. 1-ranked class in America.

Urban Meyer once said that if they’re dishing out a championship for something (even if it’s a non-tangible trophy like the recruiting crown) that Ohio State wants to win it.