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NJ high school teammates squaring off in Ohio State-Notre Dame championship game
ATLANTA — The sports world will be watching Ohio State and Notre Dame Monday night with the national championship at stake.
So will Rich Hansen, but he will be particularly focused on two guys: Ohio State linebacker Cody Simon and Notre Dame defensive end RJ Oben.
St. Peter’s Prep of Jersey City will be on center stage, featuring two of its alums in college football’s biggest game. The duo played together for three seasons.
“I’m excited for them, man,” Hansen, the school’s athletic director and former football coach, said. “These two guys are among the finest humans walking the planet, and I mean that. Obviously they possess an athletic skill set, but there’s so much more to them, you know.
“They embraced the grind, the competition and challenge, and that’s really what sets them apart. Their work ethic, they carried themselves with maturity and class here. I can’t think of two guys who are more deserving to be in that environment and have that opportunity. It was the honor of my career to coach two guys like that.”
Both Simon and Oben have helped their respective defenses be among the country’s best.
Simon led Ohio State in tackles with 104 and notched seven sacks and seven passes defensed.
He was the Defensive MVP of the Rose Bowl, a one-sided Buckeyes victory over Oregon in which he had 11 tackles and two sacks.
In his first season at Notre Dame, after spending the first five years of his career at Duke, Oben had 18 tackles, a sack and a forced fumble.
Both had to be patient.
Simon waited his turn at Ohio State, finally breaking out as a fifth-year senior.
Oben, the son of former Giants offensive lineman Roman Oben, didn’t play quite as much as he may have liked this year, but he came up big in a quarterfinal win over Georgia with a strip sack.
Now, the two former high school teammates will share the same field one more time as opponents at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
“I talked to RJ a couple days ago. It’s always bigger than the rivalry or anything,” Simon said. “I just appreciate he’s in the position with me and we can all share the moment. Two guys from the same high school are pretty cool.
“We have a term called, ‘Prep for Life.’ That really does run deep. There’s a lot of people who have come from our school, and we always try to stay connected. It does mean a lot for our high school.”
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Ohio State linebacker Cody Simon and Notre Dame defensive end RJ Oben.
The only problem for St. Peter’s Prep and Hansen is picking a side. The former coach can’t do it. He does have a dream for Monday night, though.
“I am rooting for the first ever 0-0 tie in national championship college football history,” Hansen joked. “That’s the bad part of this whole thing. Someone is going to walk off losing and neither one of them deserves to lose. But I’m going to honestly just enjoy their effort and know that they really deserve to be in this environment.”
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Ryan Day will have some very familiar competition in the Big 10 soon.
The son of the Ohio State football coach, R.J. Day, announced his commitment to Northwestern for the Class of 2027 on Sunday.
Northwestern plays in the same conference as Ohio State and the schools will face each other.
R.J. Day, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound quarterback from — not surprisingly — Columbus, Ohio, has started for three years at St. Francis DeSales HS as he heads towards his senior season.
According to reports, the younger Day had other offers from Purdue, Syracuse, Cincinnati and South Florida, as well as others.
Northwestern has eight quarterbacks on head coach David Braun’s roster.
And the offensive coordinator for the Wildcats is Chip Kelly, who served in the same role for Ryan Day at Ohio State when the Buckeyes won the title in 2024.
Kelly, the former head coach at UCLA and Oregon, was also the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire when Ryan Day was the team captain from 1998-2001.
Most recently, Kelly was the OC with the Las Vegas Raiders before he took the job with Northwestern.
“It’s really surreal when you think about the relationships that we’ve had with those two as a family over the years,” R.J. Day told ESPN earlier this month. “Coach Kelly coached my dad in college, so that adds another layer to it.”
Cincinnati Reds legend and well-known gambler Pete Rose was possibly more than just curious about Ohio State football’s 2012 season when he texted Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer.
Appearing on “The Triple Option” show with Alabama running back Mark Ingram May 6, Meyer told a story about his relationship with Rose.
After OSU hired Meyer, the Reds asked him to throw out the first pitch at a game. Meyer threw to his son, Nathan, and walked into the dugout, where Rose, MLB’s all-time hit leader, was waiting to greet him.
“I couldn’t get enough talking about ‘Big Red Machine,’ and he wanted to talk college football,” Meyer said on the podcast, explaining how the two spoke for hours and exchanged numbers.
Meyer said that during his first season, Rose texted him early on. He wanted information about the team, like news on Braxton Miller’s shoulder injury.
“I told that to someone, and they said, ‘You’re an idiot. Do you know he’s trying to get information from you for gambling, and you could get in trouble?’ ” Meyer said.
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Though Meyer asserted that he never disclosed much, he started to steer the conversations clear of college football after he realized Rose potentially wanted information for gambling.
The two had another conversation in Las Vegas, where Rose told Meyer he gambled daily after retiring.
Rose was banned from baseball for betting on the sport, something he admitted to in his 2004 autobiography. Rose was reinstated in 2025 and so is considered eligible for the Hall of Fame.
Still baseball’s most prolific hitter (4,256 hits), Rose died in 2024.
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