Ohio State is your 2024 college football national champion after defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 34-23, on Monday night.
The Buckeyes’ path to their first championship since the inaugural College Football Playoff in 2014-15 included impressive victories over Tennessee, Big Ten-champion Oregon and SEC-runner-up Texas before reaching Atlanta for the final.
Despite the playoff’s intended purpose of crowning an undisputed national champion, those on the internet will always concoct convoluted reasons as to why another team is more deserving.
One of those reasons is the infamous transitive property, when a non-undefeated champion sees its title claimed by a team that beat them in the regular season but did not make it to the title game itself.
This year, Ohio State lost to arch-rival Michigan for the fourth straight season which has led to Wolverine fans claiming this trophy is actually theirs to hoist for back-to-back years.
