While Ohio State didn’t make this year’s College Football Playoff, the two teams that played for a national championship on Monday night were the only teams that finished ahead of the Buckeyes in the season’s final rankings. Ohio State checked in at No. 3 in the final AP Top 25 of the season, released early Tuesday morning, behind only Clemson and Alabama after the Tigers defeated the Crimson Tide, 44-16, in the final game of the season on Monday night. After finishing the season with a Big Ten championship win over Northwestern and a Rose Bowl win over Washington, Ohio State was one of only three Power 5 teams – along with 15-0 Clemson and 14-1 Alabama – to finish the season with at least 13 wins. This past season was just the third time in Ohio State history, along with the 2002 and 2014 national championship seasons, that the…
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