Ohio State is hours away from meeting Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff championship game, capping a season that just in the past eight weeks has seesawed between the depths of another loss to Michigan and the potential high of claiming the program first championship since the debut of the four-team format a decade ago.

Ohio State football head coach Ryan Day was brutally honest about the impact the loss to Michigan had on his program. The Buckeyes have responded to this brutal defeat in extraordinary fashion. Ohio S

Ohio State coach Ryan Day isn't messing around as the countdown to kickoff of the national championship between the Buckeyes and Fighting Irish draws closer. As the Buckeyes exited their plane, which had arrived in Atlanta,