Alabama trolls Ohio State on its national championship game poster
Ohio State’s insistence on referring to the school as “The” Ohio State University is a popular target for trolling and trash talk. After Monday night’s 52-24 win in Miami Gardens, Alabama threw subtlety out the window with a day-after troll.
As you can see in the image below, the game poster tweeted from the official Twitter account of Alabama football puts a strong emphasis on declaring the Crimson Tide “The National Champions.”
It’s not just the official account getting in some postgame trolling. Twitter user @notkdk3 compiled a video of the social media reaction from a number of Ohio State fans before, during, and after the game, which you can view below. Unsurprisingly, the hilarious video features some not suitable for work language.
UA now owns a 4-1 advantage in head-to-head meetings between the two perennial powers. It took six years for Alabama and Ohio State to meet again after the College Football Playoff semifinals clash for the 2014 season. It’s anybody’s guess whether the Buckeyes and Crimson Tide will meet next in the postseason or in the home-and-home regular-season series scheduled for the 2027 and 2028 season.
The players and coaches might be different the next time Alabama and Ohio State clash on the gridiron, but the Buckeye faithful are sure to remember the trash talk and trolling.
Perfect!
College football should disband. Watching Alabama (yawn……) win is just boring. Hand them a “forever” National Championship trophy that doesn’t expire and let’s have only Alabama play Alabama every week. The NCAA is going to have to find some way to get parity into College Football or it is doomed. I am turned off and tuned out by Ala-Fing-Bama all the time. I switched channels during during Q2 of the laughable “Chumpionshi*” game to watch reruns of Gilligan’s Island which was much more enjoyable and entertaining (will they ever get off that island?).
Honestly, the same 4-5 teams going up against Bama is killing the game. I know the “rules” ae the same for everyone when it comes to recruiting etc,,,but there has to be a way to spread more talent across more teams. And don’t get me started on the transfer portal.
Ok grandpa
I was thinking he’s one of those millennial sissys who wants everybody to get a trophy.
He wants his participation trophy. Everybody is way too soft these days lol.
Nah, he’s an Auburn alum old fart. Can’t you tell by his grammar? Or either he has been drinking too much of his homemade moonshine.
Dear AUalum76,
You’re no different than my 3 year old pitching a fit because he didn’t get something he wanted… Not really a masculine approach to life is it?
P***Y !
As soon as the ncaa starts allowing player s to get paid for their image and likeness Texas will start inning again.
winning
Boohoo.
I am sick of ‘Bama winning the SEC and National Championship over and over too, and there is one simple solution.
Teams need to BEAT them, but they have not been able to. Call it “the Process” call it better recruiting, call it whatever you want. But until a program can beat them, ‘Bama is the King of the hill, and will be until someone is able to knock them off.
We don’t need to water down College Football due to the success of a program. No One needs “participation trophies”. Earn it in the off season and on the field. ‘Bama has been doing that and until they are knocked off, they deserve our admiration and congratulations.
Or maybe just quit obsessing about beating Bama. Just develop your program as much as possible, and if you can beat them, great.
I do think the current system helps the rich get richer, making harder to break through. I think a playoff expansion helps change that dynamic a bit.
I hope UGA beats Bama before Saban retires. Otherwise, it’ll always seem like it needs an asterisk
One of the big indicators that society has been pulled too far towards toxic leftism is the hatred of success and dominance.
It takes a lot of hardwork, emotional and physical commitment and toughness, and perseverance to attain a high level of success, and even more and more to maintain it.
With Alabama, we are witness one of the most amazing athletic runs in the history of organized competition and there’s seeming no place in our national discourse to explore and valorize this. Instead, we get calls to “spread the talent.” and that it’s “boring” to watch this amazing achievement.
With all of the toxicity in the country, maybe it’d be great to just enjoy a thing we all love, without having slip our political opinions in there.
Spoken like a true Democrat. Let other people work hard and earn the reward. Take it from them and spread it out to others who have been sitting on their rear ends and didn’t work for it.
@ 57939names / Joe F…..Frunk lost the election…GET OVER IT! New sheriff running the US 1/20….Don’t miss the celebration!
RTR!
Or he could do the conservative thing and claim nonexistent cheating and fraud, refuse to acknowledge the score, and finally storm and vandalize the NCAA HQ when he doesn’t get his way.
Two thumbs up
Communism should never be the answer. You can’t keep up through no ones choices but your own so let’s redo the system so YOU can do better.
You wouldn’t know communism if it slapped you in the face.
You would feel differently if it was your team doing so well and therefore getting into playoffs almost every year. It has a lot to do with talent but in the long term it’s more to do with coaching up that talent.
Saban will retire one day.
Another “sour-grapes” Au alum, like we really needed another AU whiner on a CFB forum. YO, how did AU do THIS season with “Pizza-Face” Bozzy Nix?? AU DESERVES mediocrity since they claim a NC won by a school named Alabama Polytechnic Institute for the blind, crippled, and crazy. You “blow-flies” are a real piece of work. Bottom line, AU will ALWAYS be the mud-flaps on Alabama FB’s game day bus…
You sir, are the epitome of class. My hats off to you for your wondrous performance on the field this season as well. Keep up the hard work.
Yea it’s strange how dynasties and back to back playoff visits only exist in College Football and LITERALLY NO OTHER SPORT!!!
Maybe there should be a 120 team playoff!? They can start the first week of September!
So sick of Bama winning the CFP LITERALLY EVERY YEAR! Except when they didn’t win it last year, or the year before that. So tired of the same 4 teams going to the playoffs LITERALLY EVERY YEAR, except for when LSU made a visit, or when UGA made a visit, or when UW made a visit, or when Oregon made a visit, or when FSU made a visit, or when MSU made a visit! The repetition is old and tiring!
Ohio State alums/fans insistence that “The” be included in the name of their institution, is obviously their way of trying to appear superior to the rest of the colleges & universities across the country. More power to them. I have no doubt that it makes them feel good. Every OSU supporter I know (& it is a few), grins ridiculously every time they try to coerce others to include “The” when referring to OSU.
Living my entire life in the south, I don’t have many other impressions of OSU. This one thing makes me think that they are arrogant jerks. Not that it matters to them or anyone else, I fervently root against them & revel in their comeuppance. “The” probably doesn’t have quite the effect that they intended.
Xey want folks that don’t know xem to use xir chosen pronoun.
My daughter is very good friends with a classmate whose parents both went to Ohio State Community College. They understand that I’m not really impressed with the Bucknuts.
After watching Woody Hayes punch a ClemSARMS player along the sideline in the 1978 GatorBowl, I’ve been VERY sour on THE OSU. A buckeye is something I’ve never seen in my 70 years on this Earth and I’m sure I’ll go to my grave without seeing one….
Not to mention there are 11 state universities in Ohio. It’s AN Ohio State University.
This was funny… “The players and coaches might be different the next time Alabama and Ohio State clash on the gridiron, but the Buckeye faithful are sure to remember the trash talk and trolling.” Very true, but THE Ohio State still won’t be able to do anything about it.
This goes back to the question that arose a few years ago when it seemed like every year THE Ohio State was getting rammed into the National Championship game — “Which SEC Team gets to beat THE Ohio State this year for the National Championship?
Overrated team, Overrated Program that only gets in the picture every year due to the high number of alumni that are in Media and Sports Media.
All conferences measure themselves against the SEC. Yet, the SEC goes 7-2 in Bowl games even managing 4 upset wins. All games were against ranked opponents. Bama earns another National Championship. Another successful year.
Ohio St is satisfied with their win over Clemson, and Notre Dame is happy with holding Bama to a 17 point spread.
Being a vet who served with an OSU fan in the mid 90’s, that’s all I ever heard was THE Ohio State. He shut up when Eddie George got stood up twice and denied at the goal line and UT beat them in the 1995 Citrus Bowl…. and yes Florida fans, you couldn’t spell Citrus without UT. I miss those days!
Do something about parity ?.. every program has the same opportunity to recruit & develop their players the same as bama does..
Not quite. College football has a Monopoly problem–it’s set up so that the more you succeed, the easier it is to succeed next time. In team sports, parity produces interest, while in individual sports, dominance produces interest.
The key to making college football better is to better open opportunities, rather than shut them down across the board. Nothing will ever be equal, but things should at least be reasonably fair.
LSU last year and this year proves you wrong
Ummm, what…six out of twelve-thirteen, would prove you wrong. Is there anything that needs to be done to create parity? I don’t know about that, any changes are as likely to ruin the game as make it better. But surely you can take off the crimson glasses long enough to see there is a competitive imbalance across the sport. Just look at the number of repeat appearances in the playoff by the same few teams. Is it impossible for a team to break the recent norm, of course not. But is it getting increasingly more difficult with every bama, Clemson, OSU, OU/ND playoff? You bet. There are a handful of schools that earmark far more funds for football (some of those funds come from “clubs”, *cough cough, the REC*) than their counterparts could hope to match. Do I want some sort of committee in charge of “fixing” the imbalance? Nah, handing old farts power almost never helps make anything good, better.
I once watched an Ohio State game with an Ohio State fan. I was trying to be nice, since he was dating a friend of mine.
Big mistake. I never hated a definite article more in my life than I did on that day.
Anyway, after Monday, I guess they’re just “An” Ohio State University.
Well listening to Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler get giddy everytime Ohio State did anything was making me sick. Notice how they got quite after the 3rd quarter. Almost as bad a listening to Gary Danielson. They hyped OSU up too much. Seeing Bama curbstomp them brought a smile to my face. Being in NC game with only 6 wins….smh. Funny after the Bama linebacker was ejected for targeting, OSU had 3 hits that IMO could of been targeting too but was not called and Herby was doing his best to downplay it as targeting by OSU. Nice job Bama. Roll Tide
You can’t fault a guy for rooting for their almamater. It is a tough position to be in to call a game when your team is playing. With that said, I did notice a few instances of what I perceived as bias, but it wasn’t nearly as pronounced or obvious as I frankly expected it to be.
Roll Tide
Kerby cried on national TV, over a media created, WOKE narrative. “sniff sniff and it’s not ok.” Man card removed, now go to the back of the bus.
Congratulations to all the SEC men who made this another great year for football. This was a good AL team and when comparing AL league games to it’s playoff games the league looks stronger than ever. Good job Missouri in that opening game against Alabama
the big 10 changed the rules late to enable A state school from ohio to absorb this curbstomping!Nothing but jerks from top to bottom!I felt they should have never been in the playoffs,not because of their lack of games,but because they were way overrated.Another state school from ohio,Cincinnati,would have been a more worthy opponent! It didn’t help that butteye head coach overloaded his a$$ with his pie hole post lockeroom ClemKadiddleHopper!