With just seconds left in the National Championship game on Monday night, Ohio State’s head coach Ryan Day was shown running up and down the sidelines, launching his headset into the crowd, and his players holding him to make sure the green-soaked Gatorade bath-filled him from head to toe.

The Ohio State football football program did what many said it couldn’t. The Buckeyes picked themselves up off the mat, in the depths of despair after losing to Michigan and went on the

Ryan Day became the fifth Ohio State football coach to win a national title, joining legends Paul Brown, Woody Hayes, Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer.

Years of disappointment made Ohio State coach Ryan Day question whether he'd ever coach OSU to a title. Those heartbreaks made the title even sweeter.

Takeaways from Ohio State's national championship on Day, a historically great resume, Will Howard, keys to the title run and what's next.

Much was made about the approximately $20 million Ohio State spent in name, image and likeness money to put the team together, but with a few exceptions, the money went toward the Buckeyes keeping their own players in school for another season, rather than leaving for the NFL Draft.

Ryan Day deserved to feel vindication when he won a national championship less than two months after it seemed his Ohio State job was on the line.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day pointed to the Buckeyes sticking together through adversity for their national championship victory in an interview postgame on ESPN.

Ryan Day describes what it took for Ohio State to overcome adversity and become CFP national champions.