Maybe Ohio State football fans will like coach Ryan Day now. Fifty-one days after suffering the worst loss of his career, Day guided the No. 8-seeded Buckeyes to their first national championship in 10 years with a 34-23 victory over seventh-seeded Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff National Championship game presented by AT&T on Monday night.

Instead of crying over another collapse, Ohio State can celebrate another national title after holding off a Notre Dame comeback bid Monday night to walk away with a nailbiter of a 34-23 victory over the Fighting Irish.

Grading Ryan Day and the rest of the Buckeyes after Ohio State football's College Football Playoff championship game vs. Notre Dame.

Just catch it,” Jeremiah Smith thought to himself. The Ohio State freshman receiver knew the ball was coming his way. Notre Dame was in man coverage. “Man-on-man, I don’t lose,” Smith said later. He didn’t lose here,

Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith moved to second on the program's single-season receiving touchdown list after the star freshman hauled in a score in the College Football Playoff National Championship against Notre Dame.

Ohio State fans at the Gateway Film Center in Columbus reacted to Will Howard's 56-yard completion to Jeremiah Smith late in the fourth quarter of the CFP national championship against Notre Dame. Ohio State won,

Watch freshman Jeremiah Smith score the Ohio State Buckeyes' first touchdown in the National Championship against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.