The match ball they will be using for the occasion is suitably patriotic and leans heavily on the national colours of the host nation.

“We probably would have just been in a traditional stripe for the playoff,” Kevin Ries, OSU's director of football equipment, said to the Dispatch in 2022. “We would have never thought to ...

stripes, rather. The SEC supplied the officiating crew for the title tilt between Ohio State and Notre Dame, and when the public address announcer introduced the referee and stated his conference ...