DALLAS – As sports fans have been talking about for last week and as the Associated Press reports, Ohio State and Oregon will meet in a game that has never been played for a trophy that has never been raised.
The winner tonight in North Texas can be called the truest champion in the history of major college football.
The first College Football Playoff national championship game matches the second-seeded Ducks and fourth-seeded Buckeyes at AT&T Stadium.
The Mount Vernon News reported Mount Vernon High School graduate Russell Doup will be in uniform tonight on the roster as the Buckeyes’ backup long snapper. He got the job after a tryout during the spring, following the graduation of the team’s regular LS. Look for Doup as OSU’s #32. The game will be on cable TV’s ESPN, kickoff at 8:30 p.m.
“Man, I don’t even know what that’s going to be like,” Doup told the News. “I can’t wait to get out there.”
“It’s college football history,” Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said Sunday during a news conference with Oregon coach Mark Helfrich, with that new championship trophy sitting in between them.
The days of bowls, polls and the BCS having the final say about who is No. 1 are over. The playoff that fans wanted for so long – and finally got – will determine a champion without a doubt.
Oregon (13-1) and its Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Marcus Mariota are in search of the program’s first national title, the last remaining goal for a school that has barged onto the national stage over the last two decades with ostentatious flare and flashy uniforms.
Ohio State (13-1) is shooting for national championship No. 5, but the first under coach Urban Meyer, who returned to his home state three years ago to take over a college football goliath that was looking to start its next golden age.
