It was another beautiful setting in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains on New Year’s Day, just as the Rose Bowl always is, and it was made even more beautiful by how the game finished. Ohio State won an all-time classic 48-45 in a game that could have easily gone the other way. We like to pull out five things from the game that are knee-jerk takeaways every game, and we’re doing the same here.
There’s a lot of layers to this one, and a lot of back and forth, so there’s plenty to talk about, plenty to remember, and things we will be discussing for days.
For starters though, here are five things we learned after the epic win by Ohio State over Utah in the Rose Bowl.