Monday night, the 2014 college football season will culminate in a titanic title tilt between the University of Oregon and Ohio State University.
The national championship game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, is the result of a new system of determining college football’s best team, similar to the NCAA college basketball tournament. However, in this case, a group of 13 former college football coaches and players, former and current administrators, and one former US secretary of State voted on which four teams would ultimately have the opportunity to compete for a national title in football, as opposed to 68 teams in college basketball.
Prior to the national championship game, these two institutions of higher education have met on the gridiron eight times with the Ohio State Buckeyes winning all eight games. Two of those previous contests were the the 1957 and 2009 Rose Bowls. Five of the other six games took place in Columbus%2
