It is that time of the year again. Championship ring season! Ohio State players will be getting a pair of rings this year after winning the Big Ten championship and adding a national championship to the list of accolades, which also includes more gold pants for a victory over Michigan.
We are starting to get our first glimpses of Ohio State’s freshly minted championship rings. Here is Jeff Heuerman‘s ring, which he took to Twitter to show off...Champs 💎💍 pic.twitter.com/rw54Dlt0ds
— Jeff Heuerman (@JHeuerman86) April 16, 2015
Ohio State defeated Oregon in the first College Football Playoff national championship game in January. The Buckeyes, champions of the Big Ten, dismantled Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota and the Pac-12 champion Ducks after putting away SEC champion Alabama in the Sugar Bowl in one of the two semifinal match-ups. Ohio State’s championship run was not exactly unexpected given the hyp[e leading up tot he start of the 2014 season, but the Buckeyes had to overcome the loss of quarterback Braxton Miller to a shoulder surgery shortly before the start of the season and an early-season loss at home to Virginia Tech, which many assumed was more than enough to write Ohio State’s championship hopes off for the remainder of the year midway through September.
Ohio State will likely start the new season off atop the major polls and should once again be a top threat in the Big Ten. Will there be some more championship hardware to show off a year from now? With only 140 days, four hours, 18 minutes and counting, we’ll just have to sit and wait to find out.