By the end of the 2014 season, Ohio State’s offensive line – affectionately known as “the Slobs” – was playing as well as any unit in college football, and was one of the major factors in the Buckeyes’ national championship run.
Paving the way for 878 rushing yards (292.7 per game) in three postseason games, at a 6.2 yards-per-attempt clip, the Slobs had fully coalesced into some kind of five-part road grading death machine. Even the vaunted Crimson Tide defense yielded their longest play of the year on a basic running play in the face of the Slobs (plus a pretty good wide receiver block from Evan Spencer).