This season is Ohio State's third attempt at winning a repeat national championship this century, and each of the past two were covered breathlessly in the Buckeye State and beyond. The Buckeyes appeared on the cover of SI to begin 2003, and generated best-team-of-all-time talk entering 2015.
It is strange, then, that Ohio State's 2025 outfit has flown under the radar a little bit. It is especially strange because this team is leaps and bounds better than the '03 team, and possibly better than the uber-talented '15 team as well. In eight games this season, the Buckeyes have demonstrated almost no weakness, and they seemed unbothered by a rare off-quarter Saturday in a 38–13 win over Penn State.
