Five keys to Ohio State beating Alabama in the CFP national championship game

It’ll take close to a perfect game for Ohio State to upset Alabama and take home a national title. Here are five keys to shocking the world.

The College Football Playoff national championship game between Ohio State and Alabama is finally on the doorstep. The Buckeyes upsetting a heavily favored Clemson team was a pleasant surprise, and now OSU is an underdog once again to big, bad Alabama.

As with any game, there are keys that each team will have to be aware of in order to execute and walk away a winner, especially in a game of this magnitude where one or two plays in the game could decide the winner.

As we do with every Ohio State football game, we are providing five keys the Buckeyes need to go their way in order to shock the college football world for the second week in a row, and make it feel like 2014 all over again.

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