Ronn Torossian on the NCAA Championship

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NCAA Championship a Huge PR Win


When Ohio State hoisted the first ever NCAA Playoff Na>onal Championship trophy, at that moment, they were far from the only winners. Ronn Torossian breaks it down. We have to start with Ohio State. The Buckeyes’ last na>onal >tle came on a HIGHLY disputed penalty in double over>me against Miami. Worse, it came in a game that was already, unofficially, over. Everything, that happened aPer the field was cleared, and the teams came back out, will forever be a maQer of public derision and dispute. But not this >tle. Ohio State routed the Oregon Ducks so convincingly that the specter of the Hurricanes is all but a distant memory. Bucks fans have reason to be on top of the world, even as their phenom story third string quarterback publicly ponders declaring for the draP.


Then there’s ESPN, the network that brought you more football that maQered than ever before. On game night, more than 33 million viewers tuned in to watch the Bucks play the Ducks. That makes it the largest audience in cable TV history. The network paid billions for the rights to the >tle game for the next decade, and it looks like that investment will con>nue to pay off.


By far, the biggest winner was the NCAA. For years, the governing body of collegiate football has been adamant against a playoff system. It’s not that they didn’t think it could work. It’s that they didn’t WANT to see if it would work. They players knew it. The fans knew it. The media knew it. And everyone hated the NCAA because of it. Honestly, one more disputed na>onal champion and the associa>on was in for a major fan exodus and yet another excoria>ng round of fire from the media. Then, finally, aPer years of saying it could not be done, the NCAA did it…and it proved to be as simple and logical as everyone always insisted it would be. So, how does this make the NCAA a winner? Well, it seems all is forgiven and forgoQen. The split na>onal >tles, the gaffes, the teams leP out in the cold, all the years of insis>ng what they just did could not be done. There’s finally an undisputed na>onal champion, and even the most disgruntled fans have a reason to love college football once again.


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