On SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt, Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler join to give their initial reactions to the Ohio State Buckeyes’ 34-23 win over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship. Then, Rece Davis joins to detail the faith of both teams, NIL money and more.
0:00 National Championship Highlights
5:21 Kirk Herbstreit & Chris Fowler react
14:27 Marcus Freeman on the loss
16:47 Rece Davis joins
18:25 Riley Leonard’s reaction
19:57 Rece on both teams’ faith
22:00 Talking NIL
23:30 Davis & Van Pelt on Ryan Day
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Ohio State did not forget a key ingredient of winning football: TEAM. The Buckeye team comes together like a blob. When one part of the team falters the other parts compensate.
I will point out the third great asset of this Ohio State Buckeye football team that has been on the field in every game – the linemen. Defensively and Offensively. This is a big key to Ohio States success this year. The Ohio State Lines just physically dominate the entire game on both sides of the ball. I mean they just beat and pound and punish and annihilate the other teams game after game, like WWE clock work. You don’t see this if you just watch highlights, because this kind of stuff doesn’t make highlights. But these Ohio Bruisers just pound people into the ground for 60 minutes. Sure you see it in more Buckeye penalties but that’s okay its definitely worth it. This is Woody Hayes football at its finest! Even in the game lost to Michigan by the Ohio State coaches, the Boys beat down Michigan, which you saw at the end of the game when the Wolverine punks tried to plant their flag, and the Corn-fed Buckeye Boys punished those skinny bastards and rammed that putrid flagpole up their shitty Wolverine assholes.