Ohio State player, TikTok star dismissed before national championship game against Notre Dame

Ohio State has looked ascendant passim the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff. 

After knocking retired the top-seeded Oregon Ducks successful the quarterfinals, the Buckeyes defeated the Texas Longhorns successful the semifinal to beforehand to Monday's title game. But 1 subordinate of the Buckeyes, who roseate to prominence mostly owed to his societal media presence, volition not marque the travel to Atlanta for the nationalist rubric game. 

Caden Davis, a erstwhile walk-on, has been dismissed from the team, Ohio State Sports Information Director Jerry Emig confirmed to The Lantern.  

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The sophomore antiaircraft extremity ne'er recorded a tackle during his little stint arsenic an Ohio State student-athlete. Davis has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers crossed fashionable societal media platforms specified arsenic TikTok and Instagram.

University officials did not instantly supply details connected what led to Davis' dismissal.

At times, Davis' online contented would supply followers with behind-the-scenes contented of the Ohio State shot squad and diversion facilities. He would besides papers his beingness arsenic a pupil connected the Columbus, Ohio, campus.

As of Wednesday, astatine slightest 1 of Davis' societal media bios read, "Ohio State shot #61," portion different accounts diagnostic references to the shot program.

In a since-deleted Instagram post, Davis suggested helium was traveling to the Dallas country with the Buckeyes for the semifinal matchup with Texas successful the Cotton Bowl. It was aboriginal determined that the photos Davis shared were from past season's Cotton Bowl game. Missouri defeated Ohio State successful that game.  

Ohio State past hoisted the nationalist title trophy successful 2014, which was the inaugural College Football Playoff Championship.

Notre Dame punched its summons to the nationalist rubric crippled by defeating the Georgia Bulldogs successful the quarterfinals earlier eliminating Penn State successful the semifinal. The title crippled kicks disconnected astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta connected Jan. 20 astatine 7:30 p.m. ET.

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