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First Take

Hour 1: O-H-I-O + Buckeyes = CFP National Champions

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe, and Dan Orlovsky discuss their key takeaways from the CFP National Championship game between Notre Dame and Ohio State. The crew also debates whether the Eagles' offense is strong enough to reach the Super Bowl. Lastly, they react to the news of former Lions OC Ben Johnson being hired as the new head coach of the Chicago Bears. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0

The Ohio's Day Buckeyes are national champions. Huge congrats. Good morning, everyone. Welcome

0:35.8

into first take. That is Dan How we feeling? S.A. I know you are at the game last night. How are we doing, guys?

0:55.5

Amazing.

0:55.9

What's going on? What are you doing?

0:56.8

Good morning, everybody.

0:57.6

Good morning.

0:58.1

All right.

0:58.1

Let's dive right in because we got a whole lot to cover.

1:00.4

So nearly two months after suffering the worst loss of his career,

1:03.9

Ryan Day led the eight-seated Buckeyes to their first championship in 10 years with a 3423 victory over 7-seated Notre Dame in the college football playoff national championship last night. What a day. Here's Ryan.

1:16.6

This story gets to get told now, and it's a great story about a bunch of guys who have just overcome some really tough situations. And there was a point where there's a lot of people that counted us out, and we just kept swinging and kept fighting. It's the reason why you get into coaching is to see guys

1:31.2

overcome things, learn life lessons, and then reach their dreams. This is what happened tonight.

1:37.1

All right, Shay Sharper, I want to start with you on this one. What was your biggest takeaway

1:40.7

watching that game? Best team won. You saw it.

1:45.0

I mean, look, Notre Dame put together a great drive and this is what they needed to do.

1:49.0

They needed to take six, seven, eight, nine minutes off the clock, limit the possessions that

1:54.0

the Buckeyes were going to have.

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