{"id":31055,"date":"2025-01-20T23:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/college-football-playoff-national-championship-game-ohio-state-v-notre-dame-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T23:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:48:18","slug":"college-football-playoff-national-championship-game-ohio-state-v-notre-dame-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/college-football-playoff-national-championship-game-ohio-state-v-notre-dame-live-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Playoff National Championship Game: Ohio State v Notre Dame \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Latest score from 7.30pm ET kick-off in Atlanta<\/li>\n<li>Email <a href=\"mailto:david.lengel@theguardian.com\">david.lengel@theguardian.com<\/a> with your thoughts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>David will be here shortly, here\u2019s something from the AP on the significance of today\u2019s game:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman felt more comfortable talking about the national championship his players have a chance to win Monday night than the history attached to it if they pull it off.<\/p>\n<p> Still, it\u2019s hard to ignore the connections between Freeman\u2019s fate \u2014 he is trying to become the first African American coach to capture a college title at the highest level in America\u2019s favorite sport \u2014 and all that\u2019s happening in the U.S. on the day of the big game.<\/p>\n<p> Monday 20 January is national-title day but also the day the United States celebrates Martin Luther King Jr., and inaugurates Donald Trump to his second term as president. King devoted his life to fighting for inclusion and equality, and today diversity initiatives are increasingly under scrutiny on college campuses.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe timing of Marcus Freeman and Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a powerful symbol that should be viewed with cautious optimism,\u201d said Joseph Cooper, the director of the Institute for Innovative Leadership in Sport at UMass. \u201cAnd with the incoming administration and their professed commitment to undo DEI policies, it reflects the peril and the long journey we still have to go, beyond just breaking barriers with pioneers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> That Freeman\u2019s potential breakthrough comes more than 40 years after a Black basketball coach first did the same, and that it comes against a backdrop of a mediocre minority hiring record that has shadowed college sports for decades, is a sign of how far those sports still have to go.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cToday\u2019s Black coach is the \u201870\u2019s Black quarterback,\u201d Rod Broadway, who coached at historically Black universities Grambling State and North Carolina A&amp;T, said about the once-rare sight of an African American playing the sport\u2019s most important position.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/jan\/20\/college-football-playoff-national-championship-game-ohio-state-v-notre-dame-live-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest score from 7.30pm ET kick-off in Atlanta Email david.lengel@theguardian.com with your thoughts David will be here shortly, here\u2019s something from the AP on the significance of today\u2019s game: Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman felt more comfortable talking about the national championship his players have a chance to win Monday night than the history &#8230; <a title=\"College Football Playoff National Championship Game: Ohio State v Notre Dame \u2013 live updates\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/college-football-playoff-national-championship-game-ohio-state-v-notre-dame-live-updates\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about College Football Playoff National Championship Game: Ohio State v Notre Dame \u2013 live updates\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}