Ohio State’s run to its first national championship in a decade enabled the Buckeyes to dominate the AP All-College Football Playoff team.

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Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: Expanding the College Football Playoff worked.

Ohio State held on to defeat Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Eric Edholm provides three takeaways from the game, with an eye on the 2025 NFL Draft.

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For the second season in a row, a Big Ten team has ended the season on top of the college football world. Ohio State started the 12-team College Football Playoff era the way it did the four-team playoff era by winning the national championship on Monday night in Atlanta.

The Ohio State Buckeyes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish, two of the most storied programs in the sport’s history, lock horns on Monday night in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Where: Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.)

ESPN dropped the official ratings for Monday's National Championship showdown between Ohio Sate and Notre Dame to wrap up the first ever 12-team College Footbal

The 22.1 million mark marked a drop from the 25 million who tuned in for Michigan's 34-13 victory over Washington in 2024.

That comes on the heels of massive audiences for Ohio State’s other CFP games. The first-round game against Tennessee resulted in 14.3 million, followed by the Rose Bowl vs. Oregon that had 21.1 million viewers. The Cotton Bowl against Texas attracted 19.9 million eyeballs.