Ohio State CFP Celebration 2025: Date, Time, Ceremony Location in Place of Parade
Joseph Zucker@@JosephZucker
Featured Columnist IVJanuary 21, 2025
The Ohio State football team will be making one more trip to the Horseshoe to cap off the 2024 season.
The Buckeyes announced they're staging a celebration Sunday at noon at Ohio Stadium to commemorate their 34-23 victory over Notre Dame, which secured their ninth national championship.
Fortunately for Central Ohio residents, the frigid temperatures in the area will warm up slightly by the weekend. The forecast calls for a wind chill between 27 and 31 degrees, which is better than the sub-zero conditions around Columbus at the moment.
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The mood among Ohio State fans marks a stark contrast from where things were fewer than two months ago.
In the aftermath of the 13-10 defeat to Michigan, head coach Ryan Day looked like a dead man walking. The malaise within the fanbase was strong enough to where people wondered whether the first-round playoff matchup with Tennessee would effectively be a neutral-site game.
Now, everybody in Columbus is basking in the Buckeyes' run and Day's popularity is at an all-time high.
The version of Ohio State that showed up in the playoff was the team everyone always knew it could be.
OSU dismantled Tennessee and then Oregon in the Rose Bowl before pulling away from Texas in the Cotton Bowl. It was the same story in the title game. Notre Dame scored on the opening drive but then allowed 31 unanswered points. The Fighting Irish made it a one-score game in the fourth quarter, but they were by far second-best on the night.
Thanks to the transfer portal, it's much tougher to project out what a roster may look like for the next season.
Ohio State is losing some key seniors, most notably quarterback Will Howard, wide receiver Emeka Egbuka, defensive end Jack Sawyer and defensive end JT Tuimoloau. But the Buckeyes will probably be aggressive in hitting the portal once again after spending a king's ransom to assemble their championship-winning squad.
There's no reason why OSU can't return to the Horseshoe next January for another title coronation.
