“You gotta play your best when you’re playing the best.”
Marcus Freeman reflects on Notre Dame’s loss to Ohio State in the National Championship. pic.twitter.com/DRqGo4ZcUI
— The Joel Klatt Show: A CFB Pod (@JoelKlattShow) June 17, 2025
We all remember it all too well after the Ohio State football team went on a historic run through the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff to win the national championship last season. It was one for the ages, one in which the Buckeyes beat No. 9 Tennessee, No. 1 Oregon, No. 5 Texas, and then No. 7 Notre Dame to unleash the confetti, trophies, and celebrations.
However, for every victor, there is a loser, and in the case of Notre Dame Fighting Irish head coach and former Ohio State linebacker Marcus Freeman, the loss to the Buckeyes still stings. Freeman sat down with Fox’s Joel Klatt for a wide-ranging interview, and it wouldn’t have been complete without re-visiting what happened in Atlanta between the Scarlet and Gray and “Golden Domers.”
Klatt asked Freeman to go back and think about what he learned from a game in which Ohio State jetted out to a big lead, saw the Irish battle back to within eight points in the fourth quarter, only to see the Buckeyes make plays down the stretch to win rather comfortably. For Freeman, he wishes his team could have played a little better, all while still giving credit to Ohio State.
“I think in those biggest games, those biggest moments, you’ve got to play your best. You can’t make mistakes — not against a team like Ohio State,” Freeman said. “You think about the first drive on offense, I think it was a 19-play drive, we execute, we’re physical, we go down, we score. Defensively, we didn’t play our best, and trust me, credit to Ohio State. They had some elite playmakers. They played really, really well.”
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