JJ Post, ESPN
The Ohio State Buckeyes are back at the top of college football.
Ten years and eight days removed from its last national championship, Ohio State returned to the top of the sport with a 34-23 victory over Notre Dame on Monday night. Quarterback Will Howard was outstanding for the Buckeyes, passing for 231 yards and two touchdowns. Ohio State running back Quinshon Judkins gained 100 yards on the ground and scored two scores himself.
A lot has changed since Ohio State last hoisted the national championship trophy on January 12, 2015. This is what it looked like the last time the Buckeyes dominated the college football world.
Golden State Warriors win first championship in 40 years
Led by league MVP Stephen Curry and splash brother Klay Thompson, the Warriors enjoyed great success in head coach Steve Kerr's first season. When Ohio State won the title, the Warriors went 29-5 and defeated their eventual NBA Finals opponent, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Cavaliers lead 2-1 in the Finals. However, in Game 4, Andre Iguodala joined the Golden State Warriors' starting lineup, and the Warriors dominated, winning the next three games for the first time since 1975. First championship. Iguodala averaged 16.3 points per game in the series and was named Finals MVP.
This is the first of three championships in four years for Curry, Thompson, Iguodala and others.
"Uptown Funk" tops the charts
Three weeks later in 2015, Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk" featuring Bruno Mars topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"Uptown Funk" spent 14 weeks at No. 1 until mid-April. It also ended the 2010s as the No. 1 song of the decade on the Billboard Hot 100.
"American Sniper" opens in theaters
After OSU's win, the weekend's No. 1 box office hit was "American Sniper," starring Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL Chris Kyle.
That January, "American Sniper" topped the box office for four consecutive weekends.
The U.S. women's soccer team returns to the top of women's soccer
After winning the trophy twice in the first three Women's World Cups, the U.S. women's soccer team missed out on the title in 2003, 2007 and 2011.
In 2015, however, the U.S. women's soccer team returned to the World Cup with an impressive record, conceding just one goal in their first six games. The final against Japan - a repeat of the 2011 final - turned out badly, with Ballon d'Or winner Carli Lloyd's hat trick helping the United States win 5-2.
Joe Burrow and Denzel Ward attended Ohio State University
Neither Burrow nor Ward were the most highly regarded players in the Buckeyes' 2015 recruiting class -- ESPN ranked the class No. 12 and No. 20 -- but both rose to stardom in due course.
Burrow spent three seasons as a backup and backup in Ohio State's quarterback room before transferring to LSU, where he spent two years and scored 60 touchdowns during the 2019 season. , won a national championship and the Heisman Trophy. The No. 1 pick in the 2020 NFL Draft now ranks among the top quarterbacks in the league.
Ward spent three years in Columbus, with the third year being a prolific All-American campaign. The Cleveland Browns rewarded his impressive season by selecting him with the No. 4 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. He won his fourth Pro Bowl with the team this season.