NEW ORLEANS - Seven years ago, in the same area and under the same roof, Ohio State left the field as losers Superdome second straight BCS national championship and out of the real elite of college football.
Sure, the Buckeyes have continued to dominate the Big Ten and he ran during the regular season on top of the polls. But while the young man as Ohio State team that lost to LSU in early 2008 decided to return to the locker room after the game to another race, he had to wait until Thursday.
It took until Thursday for the Buckeyes back and knock on the door. Then pounds. Then kicks.
Ohio State Buckeyes runners Ezekiel Elliott (15), left, and coach Urban Meyer, right, hold the trophy Sugar Bowl after Alabama defeated 42-35 in the Superdome in New Orleans, LA, Thursday, January January 2015. (Marvin Fong / The Plain Dealer)
They move to the third quarterback Cardale Jones, who had a poor start to prepare for the state of Ohio for a moral victory, realizing that for a team to come here after two serious accidents quarterback was worth enjoy each other.
But Jones, in his second career start, no moral victories. At least not yet. His interception came a miss Ezekiel Elliott, two turnovers creates touchdown shortstops and Alabama Crimson Tide (12-2) led 21-6 just 22 minutes, while Ohio State has dominated the statistics.
If the Buckeyes stopped making mistakes, they began to win. They looked like the better team. It won the best team.
The week was the construction of the Big Ten, starting with the hiring of Jim Harbaugh in Michigan, a move opponents Buckeyes who have made waves across the country. Then, Wisconsin, a 59-0 loss to Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship, knocked Auburn in the SEC rival in overtime Thursday in the Outback Bowl. Since the state of Michigan, team defeated the Buckeyes in East Lansing, especially his earlier victory this season, rebounded with an impressive win over No. 5 Baylor, his last rival Ohio State was placed in the play-off.
Great day for the Big Ten. Make a day, well, a good year.
Ohio State's victory marked the first day of 2015 as a time when there is a change. As January 8, 2007, when the SEC began its ascent to the management of Florida Buckeyes in the first of two consecutive national championships.
Meyer was on the winning side in the night. And was on the winning side again on Thursday.
The emergence of coach Nick Saban in Alabama began when he knocked Meyer and Florida in the SEC Championship five years ago, when Saban said the Gators were the norm. Now Meyer corresponded to his record to 2-2 with four-time national champion, who has a statue in Tuscaloosa, after saying this because some endgame was announced that the Buckeyes had used Bama as standard.
Now the Buckeyes continues its eighth national championship in school history against the Ducks and Heisman Marcus Mariota while Meyer will be shooting for his third title. But what has already won.
The SEC, led by teams from Florida Meyer bar and then team-based Saban Alabama, and win or lose on January 12 has the Buckeyes made clear. Ohio State is now 2-10 against the SEC in bowl games, and this was the first official victory since the Sugar Bowl victory over Arkansas four years have been erased from the books NCAA sanctions.
Ohio State has done all he wanted against the tide, had other opponents are not against this team Alabama, although it is much less than the best device Saban.
Elliott became the first runner 100 yards against Alabama this season and did it in the first quarter, thanks to an all-American safety barrier side Landon Collins in a race at 54 meters. Then he gave Ohio State two accounts with a 85-yard touchdown with just over three minutes to go, the longest allowed by Alabama this season. A Night of 230 meters for the second year has been completed.
Devin Smith has shown time as a deep threat that the game changed, and burned the corners Bama vulnerable to a first 40-yard and 47-yard touchdown third quarter.
Rookie linebacker Red Shirts Darron Lee, who responds, "instead of being afraid?" if you call him arrogant for his teammates, toured the country and pushed blockers strive ball carrier Bama.
With receiver Jalin Marshall forced to work as a backup quarterback, the Buckeyes looked a receiver to throw a touchdown pass. But it was Evan Spencer, after Marshall turned on its side in a double whammy, high zipper pull one end zone for a score by Michael Thomas jump.
Senior defensive end Steve Miller, a good soldier and directing career backup in a starting role this season by lifting of Noah Spence, fell into a hedge in a bombing in the area and took an interception that was a touchdown of 41 yards.
It gave the Buckeyes ahead 34-21 late in the third quarter and sent an OHIO chant around the Superdome, with OSU fans that almost half of the crowd at 74,682, flight and were road tripping in New Orleans through the crowds of Alabama fans an easy four hours.
In two minutes late for fans who nauseating in scarlet and gray, Ohio State had a touchdown and gave Alabama tide ball for the last time. When an order of Alabama was seized by an interception Tyvis Powell in a Hail Mary as time has passed, a whole side of the Superdome exploded.
Buckeye Nation, appeared as the Buckeyes. He knocked on the door. Plundered. Now they are moving in.
