Ohio State Buckeyes win national title

Published: Tuesday, 1/13/2015 - Updated: 35 seconds ago

BY DAVID BRIGGS BLADE SPORTS WRITER

ARLINGTON, Texas Urban Meyer and his Ohio State football team came to AT&T Stadium on Monday in search of a storybook finish to their Texas-sized legend.

If only they could have imagined.

On a night for the ages, Meyer, Ezekiel Elliott, and these indomitable Buckeyes assured their place among the tallest giants in 125 years of Ohio State football.

Dot the i in title. The Buckeyes are national champions.

Down to their third-string quarterback and a prayer a month earlier the equivalent of fourth-and-forever the Buckeyes finished off their extraordinary season with a stunning 42-20 victory over Oregon in the first College Football Playoff national championship game.

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