DALLAS, Texas — Sitting at his table on the second floor of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas, Scott Frost was visibly annoyed.
Only it wasn’t another compare-and-contrast question about Ohio State, or inquiry into ineligible wide receiver Darren Carrington that irked Frost at the College Football Playoff championship media day. Rather, it was the suggestion that the spread offense was no longer working in the NFL that caused the Oregon offensive coordinator to shake his head.
“I don’t see that at all,” Scott said. “I think it will cautiously move in that direction.”
But while the spread may be the future of professional football, according to Scott, it’s very much the present of the college game. That is something that won’t ever be more evident than it will be in Monday’s championship game.
It will be there that Frost’s Oregon team takes on Ohio State inside the walls of Arlington’s AT&T stadium. Two of the sport’s most progressive offenses, the Ducks and Bucks, have managed to stay ahead of the curve in college football, with Monday night serving as a high point in the spread’s evolution.
“We run similar offenses,” Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer said of his title game opponent. “A lot of similar plays.”
The success of the modern spread offense has lasted nearly a decade, dating back to Vince Young guiding Texas to a national title in 2005. Meyer would capture two of the next three crystal balls at Florida,…
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