The Post editorial staff congratulates OSU on the championship win.
We, at the oldest university founded in the state of Ohio and first in the northwest territory, would like to wish our younger siblings up U.S. Route 33 congratulations on winning the very first College Football Playoff and being crowned national champions for 2015.
Expert and casual football fans alike doubted Ohio State along the way, whether it was after the team’s loss to Virginia Tech or selection for the playoff instead of TCU or Baylor, and prior to squaring off against heavyweights Alabama and Oregon.
But Ohio State silenced the doubters at every step, culminating in Monday’s championship game win in which the Buckeyes’ third-string quarterback, Cardale Jones, a Cleveland native and graduate of Glenville High School, managed to lead the team to victory over Oregon’s Heisman Trophy-winning signal-caller Marcus Mariota.
Court Street was filled with Ohio State supporters from before kickoff until the early hours of the morning. After the Buckeyes sealed the victory around midnight, bar-goers poured into the street to celebrate.
It was a great scene — one we would love to replicate after a Bobcats win. Sure, Ohio University’s sports teams likely won’t be participating in a national championship in any sport any time soon, but Court Street better be equally rowdy during the Bobcats’ next postseason push. (The only sports fandom comparable to Monday’s during our time as OU students was the Bobcats’ men’s basketball team’s Sweet 16 appearance in 2012, which, to be clear, was an impressive display of student spirit despite the university being on spring break).
Let us not forget, “we” did not win Monday night. We’re not Ohio State, and we do not attend Ohio State. OSU is a school that competes with OU for state funding, professors, administrators and students, to name a few important areas.
So, even at this point of great pride for the state of Ohio, lets not forget who’s really our number one.
Go Bobcats.
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