All offseason long, reminders of Clemson’s 29-23 win over Ohio State in last year’s College Football Playoff semifinals were displayed within the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. From the moment Nolan Turner intercepted Justin Fields’ final pass to seal victory in the 2019 Fiesta Bowl between the Buckeyes and the Tigers, getting back to this season’s College Football Playoff and getting a shot at redemption against Clemson has been on the Buckeyes’ minds. The Buckeyes did what they needed to do to earn that opportunity, winning all six of their games in a truncated regular season full of stops and starts and COVID-19 tests, and their chance for revenge against the Tigers – and to earn a berth in the national championship – will finally come on Friday night.
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney gives Ohio State the best bulletin board material the Buckeyes could ask for: Doug Lesmerises
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
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COLUMBUS, Ohio I’m not sure Ryan Day should address his Ohio State Buckeyes as anything other than “the 11th-best team in the country,” from now until Jan. 1.
Day should send holiday cards to his players that read, “Merry Christmas, that guy thinks you aren’t as good as Coastal Carolina.”
Every Ohio State meeting and practice should start at 11 after the hour, every greeting should begin with, “How’s it feel to be less respected than three-loss Iowa State?” and Dabo Swinney’s final ballot in the coaches poll should hang in the Woody Hayes Athletic center right next to the signs and banners listing Ohio State’s Big Ten championships.