Ohio State star confirms suspicion that everyone has had about the Buckeyes during their College Football Playoff run
Following a regular-season finale loss to Michigan, not many people believed that Ohio State would be playing for a National Championship on Monday night. Ohio State has rattled off three straight impressive wins to reach the final game against Notre Dame. The Buckeyes blew through Tennessee and Oregon, then beat Texas by two touchdowns last […]
Following a regular-season finale loss to Michigan, not many people believed that Ohio State would be playing for a National Championship on Monday night.
Ohio State has rattled off three straight impressive wins to reach the final game against Notre Dame. The Buckeyes blew through Tennessee and Oregon, then beat Texas by two touchdowns last week.
Ahead of the game, Ohio State star running back Quinshon Judkins revealed what everyone pretty much knew about that loss to Michigan.
“I think in that moment that kind of gave us a little spark,” Judkins said, via Chris Vannini of The Athletic. “Like, I would say it made us want to go harder man, and realize, okay, like that was super disrespectful. I think it made a lot of guys wake up in that moment. But did anything change about our team?
“I don’t think so. I think we prepared the same way and have the same edge as we did in the beginning of the season. So I think that just made us just go a little harder.”
It has been easy to see that the Buckeyes have a different bounce in their step since the embarrassing loss to Michigan in November. Many Buckeyes could have gone off to the NFL but opted to come back for a chance to accomplish their goals. Beating Michigan was one of those goals, something that Ohio State hasn’t done their last four times now.
Still, the ultimate goal for the Buckeyes was to win a National Championship. It has been a decade since Cardale Jones and Ezekiel Elliott helped Ohio State win it all against Oregon. Now 10 years later, the Buckeyes are trying to take it all in the first year of the expanded College Football Playoff format.
No matter the end result, Ohio State has shown special poise and ability to bounce back since that loss to Michigan. It would have been easy to crumble and fall short again, instead, Ohio State is playing for it all.
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