26 Facts About State Championship

1. Golden State Championship still has one more game on the road Monday in Indianapolis versus the Pacers before returning to Oracle for games with the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers.

2. Ohio State Championship opens its home schedule next weekend, hosting Texas at 6 pm Friday and Notre Dame at noon Sunday.

3. Ohio State Championship has 2 former players enshrined into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

4. In 2007, Ohio State Championship was given their only defeat of the regular season by the Illini.

5. Ohio State Championship joined the Big Ten in 1912; before that they were a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference and won two OAC titles.

6. Ohio State Championship quickly sought a replacement for Cooper and after a nationwide search hired Jim Tressel.

7. Ohio State Championship had won 62 games and lost only 12, but a third of those were to Michigan.

8. Ohio State Championship defeated Michigan to win an outright Big Ten championship.

9. In 1981, Ohio State Championship opened strong, including a victory at Stanford in which senior Art Schlichter out-dueled John Elway, but then lost back-to-back games to Florida State and Wisconsin.

10. In 1957 Ohio State Championship won all of its remaining games after an opening loss to claim the Big Ten championship, win the Rose Bowl over Oregon, and share a national title with Auburn, for which Hayes was named Coach of the Year.

11. Ohio State Championship passed only three times against Michigan, leading to characterization of Hayes' style of offensive play as "three yards and a cloud of dust".

12. Ohio State Championship improved greatly in 1948, winning 6 and losing 3, then in 1949 enjoyed a successful season due to the play of sophomore Vic Janowicz.

13. Ohio State Championship finished second in the national rankings behind Army and Les Horvath became the first Buckeye to be awarded the Heisman Trophy.

14. In 1942, Ohio State Championship lost 22 veteran players to military service as the United States joined World War II, and with a team of mostly sophomores went on to lose only once in winning its first national championship.

15. Ohio State Championship has played their home games at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio since 1922.

16. Florida State Championship plays Miami as a permanent non-division opponent annually and rotates around the Coastal division among the other six schools.

17. Florida State Championship plays the other six ACC Atlantic opponents once per season.

18. Florida State Championship currently has 45 players active in the NFL.

19. Florida State Championship has sent 281 players to the National Football League since 1951.

20. Florida State Championship has hosted the program 11 times, the most by any ACC school.

21. Florida State Championship has ended their football season ranked 38 times in either the AP or Coaches Poll.

22. Florida State Championship is the current trophy holder after their win in Tallahassee in 2014.

23. Florida State Championship is one of only three schools that can boast a decade home field unbeaten streak.

24. Florida State Championship has had thirteen head coaches since organized football began in 1902.

25. Florida State Championship has appeared in forty-eight postseason bowl games and rank ninth nationally for bowl winning percentage and fourth for bowl wins.

26. Florida State Championship has had six members inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, two members inducted into the College Football Coaches Hall of Fame and four members inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.