Even in victory, champions face quandaries.
There's a pressure to repeat. A pressure to do it all again. A pressure that wasn't there a year before.
The 2015 football season will not the first time Urban Meyer's faced such a strain, winning the BCS National Championship in both 2006 and 2008 at the University of Florida.
This time is different, though. This time, Meyer's in his home state of Ohio, coaching his beloved Buckeyes, and the jury's still out on who is starting quarterback will be this fall.
But time has marched on since Cardale Jones — one of the three worthy candidates Meyer has to choose from at quarterback — led Ohio State past the Oregon Ducks in Dallas Jan.