{"id":4171,"date":"2025-07-18T00:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4171\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T00:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:54:14","slug":"an-ohio-state-repeat-might-be-more-likely-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4171\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ohio State repeat might be more likely than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repeating as national champion in college football is difficult. Only one team has done it since 2013 despite their being a few perennial powers in that time. Ohio State is going to look to become the team to win the first two 12-team College Football Playoffs this year, but their work is cut out for them.<\/p>\n<p>Not only do they have a number of alternative contenders, like Alabama, Texas, Clemson, Georgia, and Oregon, they lost a lot over the offseason. They lost their QB to the NFL, and a lot of their defense followed out the door. It&#8217;s a very different team, but fortunately, they&#8217;ve recruited well.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they&#8217;ve recruited as well as any other team in football. Based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/news\/blue-chip-ratio-2025-these-18-college-football-teams-can-actually-win-the-national-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Blue-Chip Ratio;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the Blue-Chip Ratio<\/a>, which determines how well a team has recruited, they are one of two teams (Alabama) with the best shot at winning the title. An 89% BCR will do that. This does not factor in the transfer portal, though, because no team built primarily through the portal has won a title.<\/p>\n<p>How does this compare to last year&#8217;s ratio? They were 90% last year and won the title, so an 89% this year bodes really well for a potential repeat in spite of the rampant losses they suffered. Aside from OSU in 2024, every other title winner dating back to 2011 has had a lower BCR than the Buckeyes do this year, so the chances of a repeat seem to be very high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Repeating as national champion in college football is difficult. Only one team has done it since 2013 despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[49,48,551,546,5002,559,527,525,523,526,524,5003,82],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaaf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-college","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-playoffs","tag-collegefootball","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaaf","tag-ncaafootball","tag-ohio-state","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}