The Chase: How Ohio State Captured the First College Football Playoff

This inside look at an unprecedented season follows Ohio State's road to the inaugural College Football Playoff and the national championship

In The Chase, Bill Rabinowitz takes readers inside Ohio State's improbable championship season, from the final moments of their 2014 Orange Bowl loss to Clemson to the championship celebration in Texas a year later. Fans will learn how Ohio State overcame the loss of not one but two quarterbacks—gaining inside perspective behind the dynamic between Miller, J. T. Barrett, and Cardale Jones. Rabinowitz captures the mood of the team in late November following the tragic death of Kosta Karageorge, and profiles other Ohio State stars, including Joey Bosa, Michael Bennett, Ezekiel Elliott, and more.

Bill Rabinowitz has covered the Ohio State Buckeyes football team for the Columbus Dispatch since 2011. He is the author of Buckeye Rebirth about the undefeated 2012 Ohio State team and the forthcoming The Chase, the inside story of Ohio State's 2014 national championship season. Rabinowitz is a native of Dayton, Ohio, and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a history degree and from the Medill School of Journalism's master’s program at Northwestern University. He has been a sportswriter since 1988 and has been with the Dispatch since 1999 after 10 years with the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania. Rabinowitz has won numerous state and national awards, including Best Sports Writer in the 2014 Ohio Associated Press Media Editors' contest and the same honor in 2011 by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. Kirk Herbstreit is the lead college football analyst for ABC Sports and ESPN. A former quarterback at Ohio State, Herbstreit was a four-year letter winner under head coach John Cooper. As a senior in 1992 he was voted team MVP. Herbstreit lives in Franklin, Tennessee.