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The Buckeyes are backmost connected top, arsenic Ohio State took down Notre Dame, 34-23, to triumph the College Football Playoff National Championship Game astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta connected Monday night.
Ohio State has present won 9 assemblage shot titles, tying them with USC for fourth-most ever among NCAA's officially recognized championships.
This is besides the archetypal rubric since the 2014 season, which was the inaugural College Football Playoff.
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The Buckeyes person been specified a antithetic squad since losing to Michigan successful their rivalry game. And aft convincingly defeating Tennessee (42-17), Oregon successful the Rose Bowl (41-21), and Texas successful the Cotton Bowl (28-14), Ohio State utilized their high-octane discourtesy to tube its mode past Notre Dame to triumph it all.
But this crippled wasn’t similar erstwhile Ohio State wins during this playoff, arsenic the Fighting Irish truly made a connection connected an opening thrust that lasted 18 plays and killed implicit 9 minutes of archetypal 4th clock.
And it was each acknowledgment to the hard enactment by backmost Riley Leonard and the Notre Dame violative line.
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Leonard ran 9 times for 34 yards and scored aft picking up a fourth-and-1 connected Ohio State’s five-yard line. ESPN adjacent reported that Leonard ran to the sideline, threw up and stumbled a spot earlier sitting connected the bench. He besides appeared to archer teammates that helium landed connected the shot connected 1 of the runs, which could’ve caused the upset stomach.
However, the tides of momentum rapidly shifted to the Ohio State sideline, arsenic Will Howard and his radical of talented weapons didn't conscionable respond, but took implicit erstwhile they had the shot successful their hands.
The ensuing thrust went 11 plays and 75 yards, arsenic freshman phenom Jeremiah Smith capped the thrust with a cleanable play telephone that saw him enactment similar helium was moving down Howard connected pre-snap question but planting successful the crushed and walking into the extremity portion with nary 1 successful sight.
Ryan Day’s radical not lone tied the game, but the defence turned it up a notch arsenic they forced back-to-back three-and-outs connected Notre Dame’s 2nd and 3rd drive. And the Buckeyes’ discourtesy utilized that to their vantage with 2 much touchdown drives earlier the extremity of the archetypal half.
Quinshon Judkins, the explosive moving backmost that splits clip with TreVeyon Henderson, scored some of those touchdowns, the archetypal of which being a nine-yard tally wherever helium fought done aggregate tackles to get crossed the line. Then, helium was wide unfastened successful the extremity portion connected a rolling propulsion by Howard with 27 seconds near successful the 2nd 4th to enactment the Buckeyes up 21-7.
And if that wasn’t deflating enough, Judkins scored his 3rd touchdown of the nighttime connected the archetypal thrust of the 2nd fractional – a one-yard tally that was acceptable up by his 70-yard tally connected the 2nd play of the fractional to instantly get the Buckeyes first-and-goal.
Judkins finished the crippled with 100 rushing yards connected conscionable 11 carries arsenic good arsenic his 2 catches for 21 yards.
There was immoderate interest for Ohio State, though, erstwhile Notre Dame chopped it to a two-score crippled aft Leonard recovered Jaden Greathouse for a 34-yard touchdown and converted the two-point effort to marque it 31-15.
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The interest was owed to an Emeka Egbuka fumble aft going 24 yards connected a catch-and-run. It was the archetypal Ohio State fumble since their crippled against Penn State connected Nov. 2.
Notre Dame utilized that turnover to thrust downfield, and Leonard recovered himself knocking connected the doorstep until an incomplete walk to Greathouse made it fourth-and-goal from Ohio State’s nine-yard enactment with 9:27 near to play successful the game.
Given the score, 1 would deliberation caput manager Marcus Freeman wanted to effort his luck astatine different touchdown, but kicker Mitch Jeter and the peculiar teams portion ran retired onto the field. And the absorbing play telephone backfired, arsenic Jeter’s 27-yard tract extremity effort ran disconnected the near extremity station – helium hooked it.
The crippled wasn't implicit wholly aft the defence forced a punt, and Leonard was capable to find Greathouse erstwhile again, this clip connected a beautifully thrown shot and an adjacent amended drawback from 30 yards out. Needing different two-point conversion, Jordan Faison took a handoff and it looked similar Ohio State sniffed it out, but helium threw it to Beaux Collins for the palmy try.
Now a one-score game, the Buckeyes had to excavation heavy with the Fighting Irish knowing a halt gave them a accidental to marque the comeback complete.
Backed up with third-and-11, violative coordinator Chip Kelly called a gutsy heavy walk from Howard to Smith, and contempt the freshman not having a azygous reception successful the 2nd half, helium secured the dagger – a 57-yard drawback to spot the Buckeyes connected the nine-yard enactment astatine the two-minute warning.
The Buckeyes could tally retired the timepiece astatine that constituent with the Fighting Irish utilizing each of their timeouts, and the celebrating ensued.
In the container score, Leonard was 20-for-29 for 240 yards with 2 touchdowns, portion besides rushing for a team-high 40 yards connected 17 carries with his people connected the ground. Greathouse had 11 yards connected 5 receptions arsenic well.
For the Buckeyes, Smith led the mode with his 89 yards connected 5 receptions, portion Egbuka had six catches for 64 yards. Howard finished the crippled 17-of-21 for 231 yards, and helium besides rushed for 57 yards connected 16 carries.
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