The College Football Playoff championship game left no doubt who would be ranked at No. 1 with the season now concluded. But to put a final bow on the 2024 campaign, the US LBM Coaches Poll panel weighed in one more time to rank the rest of the playoff and bowl participants.

This victory will taste extra sweet for the wrongly-embattled Day, who could choose to leave Columbus with the task complete

Ryan Day deserved to feel vindication when he won a national championship less than two months after it seemed his Ohio State job was on the line.