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Game Thread 2015 National Championship Game: (2) Oregon vs. (4) Ohio State, Jan 12th @ 8:30p ET, ESPN

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MililaniBuckeye said:
Swag manufacturers must've blew a load in their collective pants when we won the title, knowing how much [Mark May] Buckeye fans would buy. In fact, we're ordering so much [Mark May] that some of the stuff is sold out despite the stock not being order until gauging how much demand there would be. Case in point, this shirt is already sold out of S, M, and XL despite being a special order item (i.e., "we ain't ordering [Mark May] until we first see how many we can sell").

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If Oregon won the national title, Phil Knight would have been happy.

But since Ohio State won the national title, Phil Knight is REALLY happy.
 
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Someone may have already mentioned this and I missed it, but what was with the yellow confetti after the game. Was everyone so sure that Oregon would win that they didn't bother to order red, too, just in case Ohio State won? Another case of Ohio against the world.

Surprise! We won! Yellow worked anyway....... Go Buckeyes!
 
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skaduzy said:
Someone may have already mentioned this and I missed it, but what was with the yellow confetti after the game. Was everyone so sure that Oregon would win that they didn't bother to order red, too, just in case Ohio State won? Another case of Ohio against the world.

Surprise! We won! Yellow worked anyway....... Go Buckeyes!
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I believe it was gold and not yellow.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
Consistency does not a dynasty make. Winning multiple championships in close proximity makes a dynasty. Two titles in twelve years is nice, but it ain't no dynasty.

If consistency matters, then Ohio State was even more consistent from 1968 to 1975, when the Buckeyes played for six national championships (1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975). They won it all in 1968, but lost the other five games. The Buckeyes also finished #2 in the country in 1973, when a tie in The Game kept Ohio State (10-0-1) behind Notre Dame (11-0-0) in the polls. Consistently losing big games does not make you a dynasty, it makes you a [fill in the blank].

Here are some (in my opinion the only) college football dynasties, starting with the "poll" era, with national championships in parentheses:

Minnesota (1934, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1941)
Notre Dame (1943, 1946, 1947, 1949)
Miami (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991)
Oklahoma (1950, 1955, 1956)
Nebraska (1994, 1995, 1997)
Alabama (2009, 2011, 2012)

I think that the current Buckeyes can be a dynasty going forward, because they have the talent and the coaching to win multiple national championships. But creating a true dynasty isn't easy, and that's why it's happened only a few times in college football.
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While I agree that the dynasty talk is premature, tOSU has not only been consistent, but consistently excellent. We talk a lot here about CFB's cyclical nature. Excusing the transitional season between JT and Urban, tOSU has been an elite level program since I started following for real. Every other "blue blood" has experienced more than one down year during this span, besides tOSU.
 
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