So Basically when Wilson and Olave opted out, Njigba started rubbin his hands like Birdman. Gotcha 👌🏾

By far this was the best college bowl game this year!!!! congrats to both teams

Fantastic game, hats off to both teams. Great addition to the legacy of the Rose Bowl.

Rose Bowl records set or tied today: Pass YDS: C.J. Stroud - 573 Pass TD: C.J. Stroud - 6 *Most Rec YDS: Jaxon Smith-Njigba - 347 (All-Time Bowl Record)* Most Rec: Jaxon Smith-Njigba - 15 Most Rec TD: Marvin Harrison Jr. & Smith-Njigba - 3 (tied with others) Most points in 1st half: Utah - 35 (tied) Most Combined Pts in 1st Half - 56 (tied) Most YDS (team) : 682 for Ohio State

Straud's passes and timing were spot on. Big boy throws to big boy receivers!

Game of the year for sure, even one of the best games of all time that we have just witnessed…

As a Buckeye fan, nothing but respect for the Utes. Crazy good team and gave s a great game.

This felt like an nfl game. Smith-Njgba already at that level.

As a Ohio State fan much respect to Utah this is the game of the year. Utah I wish you guys have a great year and praying for everyone who was injured.

Die hard Buckeye fan but lived in Utah for a couple years and can say their fan base are great people. Awesome to see their program winning conference championships and putting up amazing performances like this one! What a game!!!

Ridiculous football game. Wildly entertaining.

Proud of the Utes, and mad respect for the buckeyes. I was so hopeful for the Utes to pull it out in the end but OSU was amazing. Stroud picked the secondary apart and their receivers are all studs. Great game couldn’t have asked for anything better! Go UTES!!!

Die-hard Buckeye fan sending nothing but respect to Utah. Great, great game, possibly the best Rose Bowl game ever played. Congratulations to thee Ohio State Buckeyes.

Im a Oregon fan and I can admit this is the best game I have ever seen I thought Utah was gonna blow them out after that td return what a great game

That was such a great game, as a Buckeyes fan I thought we were going to get blown out. The Rose Bowl never disappoints. They could put Kansas and Vandy in the Rose Bowl and they'd have a classic. Njigba is up there with the likes of Vince Young as a Rose Bowl legend.

This was one REALLY close game.

The Ohio State Defense was getting beat at the line of scrimmage earlier, but they played much better in the 2nd half. This was the best Rose Bowl game I’ve ever seen in recent memory

Oh man, what a game. Hats off to Ohio State, much respect. Both teams played with tons of heart. One of the best games I’ve ever seen, period. Congrats, Buckeyes! Go Utes! So proud 🥲

Man! Kick return for td . Big forced fumble. Interceptions, QB scramble for 60 yard td, toe tapping td catches SHEESH! Utah had soooo many big plays. Yet fell short. What a game

Ute fan here. Losses are always painful - so much so, that I usually never watch replays/highlights of games where Utah loses. It took me over 6 months to watch highlights of this game. But, I'm glad I did, because that was just an incredible football game! Congrats to Ohio State on the victory. What an incredible performance by Stroud and Smith-Njigba.

Ruggles didnt need to do em like that!! That wave...what a savage. Respect to the Utes. True warriors. Go Bucks

Heck of a game. Buckeye fan here and hadn't watched Utah once this year. Very good team. Good end to the season Buckeyes. 🌹🌹🌹

Great game and great individual performances. I’m a Buckeye but a huge shoutout to a very good Utah team. Go Bucks 🌹

#1 off-season focus: Tackling drills.

Love Buckeyes what an offensive performance, wide recievers were amazing, Stroud and Nigibu were historically great. Utah played a heck of a game, wow that was crazy.

Jackson Smith-Njigba is insanely talented. He's going to the league asap for sure.

This was a fantastic game! As a Utes fan, I'm extremely proud of how they played and I was at the edge of my seat watching this one. Despite all the bad things that's happened to the team this year, they represented themselves so well and played with so much heart. Much respect to Ohio State and go Utes!

Njgba dominated this game I can’t wait to see him next year

Smith-Njigba looked like he did when he was playing high school football in Rockwall, Texas. I saw him do that on a weekly basis.

One of the Utah players offered a blanket to Jaxon Smith-Njigba during the game, but he rebuked the gesture stating "you can't cover me!"

Bowl game of the year! Fantastic matchup! The Utes brought their A game! And it took everything Ohio St had to finally sneak by. This will be a Big Ten Classic that will be played over and over and I cant wait to watch it again in the future!

Top 2 receivers out JSN said hold my beer bro

I thought Olave and Wilson were joking when they said JSN was the best wr in the room

Ohio State gave em some of the longest stiff arms in history. Very good game to watch.

Wow! This game was incredible! Fans are saying that even the Rose Bowl is meaningless. Yeah right. Anyway, both these teams are playoff teams. They are that good. And thank God rising is ok. Prayers went out immediately for him. I love how some Ohio State players ran over and prayed for him. This game was insane and is what college football is all about. Utah, congrats to you guys. What an incredible team you have. You'll be incredible next season. I've said this over and over, but Covey is a dangerous man!!! He could definitely do that against UGA, Bama, ND, etc. Go Buckeyes!

The botched punt attempt for Utah was critical. The best game I've seen since yesterday's Tenn v Purdue.

crazy to think if njigba knew 8 was behind him on that fumble he would've had 403 yards and 4 tds...

Michigan fan here. Proud of the Buckeyes for pulling this one out. Our loss yesterday sucked, so it's nice to see a Big Ten team (even my most hated rival) beat the Pac 12 champs in the Rose Bowl.

Utah didn't look scared of ohio st. They stood in there trading haymakers. Good for them.

What a wild ride that Rose Bowl was! Long time Washington Husky fan here, I watch the Rose Bowl every year. That is going to go down as an all time classic. Hats off to both teams. And for the players NOT opting out.

I’ve rewatched these highlights about 7-10 in these past 4 days probably the best game I’ve ever watched

That was a bare knuckle street fight. Love to see it

Utahs coach set record most timeouts ever saved

This was a great game start to finish. I am tempted to say I want a rematch next year, but in the playoffs. Also, as an Ohio St fan, I really hope Knowles can turn the defense around for next year.

FINALLY an epic bowl game this 2021-22 season that goes to the final seconds. Leave it to the Granddaddy of them all!

So glad my Buckeyes were able to win this game, I feel a lot more comfortable about the offense still staying strong going into next year, great game and respect to the Utes, Utah gave everything they had even with no starting QB at the end

Aside from a magnificent college football game Ain't no one else gonna how exhilarating it was to see a crowd of 100k enjoying life and celebrating a much needed American tradition, the granddaddy of them all Rose Bowl!!

Crazy match. I hope that Cameron rising is okay. He had a great year. Utah is gonna be a problem next year

The Rose Bowl is always more exciting than the CFP final four.

As an Ohio State fan, this meant a lot to me. Great matchup

Game of the year

I have NEVER seen a better kick-off return than Covey's touchdown run.

best game ive seen in a while

I'm a Cornhusker fan and in the early 70's and mid 90's, Nebraska won 5 National Titles under Bob Devaney (2) and then Dr. Tom Osborne (3)! There were some GREAT GAMES and thrilling victories in our Glory Years! But this 2022 Rose Bowl 🌹🌹 win by THE Ohio States Buckeyes over the Utah Utes was the BEST College Football Game in my lifetime of 71 years, IMHO!!! Bravo and Congratulations to both team!!! 🏈🏈👏👏👏

If # 11 for OSU had not lost the ball at the end of the 1st half near the end zone he would have eclipsed 400 yards in receiving yardage

So OSUs 2 best receivers didn’t play… and we just saw 2 more amazing receivers step up dam

Shoutout to Both teams! If the Big Ten starts poaching I want Utah in the conference!

Now this is what the final four CFP should have been! Close, edge of your seat excitement!

Egbuka's return setup OSU to win, Fleming blk sealed Njigba's 52 yd TD. Harrison Jr had 3 Td's. These 3 dudes contributed well.

Fantastic Rose Bowl Game

I’m a Utah native & current resident of said place, but I’ve been an ⭕️hio state Buckeye since I was introduced to the game of football as a Jit. Words simply can’t describe how I felt about this game.. On one hand I was absolutely wrecked that our season ended in a loss to our rival ❌ichigan. On the other hand, I was absolutely thrilled about my hometown hero’s on the rise. Seems like the perfect transition, right?? Wrong! Never in a million years did I imagine they’d be meeting up in a Rose Bowl… To say the very least I’m proud of how far Utah has come after all they went through these past few seasons.. They deserve it all, truly! However by the same token, I’m also just in complete awe and absolutely floored by how ⭕️hio State managed to pull this one off without their triple threat Earth, Wind & Fire. The talent & chemistry between CJ & Jaxon is out of this world.. The one thing I can say about both teams is that neither of them ever rolled over when things got tough whether it was throughout the rocky season or in this game alone.. Both teams dug deep and found that dawg in them… Nonetheless…I’m absolutely heartbroken 💔 for my hometown hero’s, but I rejoice in ⭕️hio state’s character tonight 😭. I take heart knowing both teams left it all on that field. This will forever be logged in my heart as one of the greatest college football games ever played. Tonight was legendary… A 🙌🏾tah man I am and in the famous words of ⭕️hio state fans around the world, “Go Bucks!” 😭

This game offensively was legendary from both teams and as an Ohio State fan I have alot of respect for Utah and the season they had all year especially after they fought back from a 1-2 record to start the season.

Stroud took that Heisman 4th place personally

There will never be a terrible Rose Bowl game. Any two teams that play in the Rose Bowl always puts on a show

Ohio State in the first half: "We don't care about this game" Ohio State in the second half: "Maybe we should care"

An instant classic for sure. I feel bad for Rising, he had a helluva game up until he was knocked out. They didn't talk about it much on the broadcast, but when they showed the replay and I saw him go stiff after hitting his head, I knew he was out cold. There's no way in this age a coaching staff with scruples that cares about their players would let him come back in the game. Hats off to Utah for giving us a helluva challenge and making this a Rose Bowl that will be talked about for years to come.

One of my favorite games of all time, Utah came out DEMANDING respect. I was upset my Buckeyes didn’t make the play offs but this game certainly made up for it. Utah proved they were legit on this day.

Game of the year! Utah gave us our best shot, but it still wasn’t enough y’all were so close. Good game!!!

As an OSU fan good game to Utah it was really fun to watch. You guys have a bright future, best of luck to you guys next year

I absolutely love Chris Fowler's calls at the end

Wow! B1G fan here and the Ute's made a believer out of me. Great game to both teams!

Game was 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Not gonna lie. I thought osu was done for in the first half..Ryan Day is the real deal making those halftime adjustments Gg Utah maybe we will meet again in the cfp

Olave and Wilson said “go get it then young man”

TY OHIO FOR WINNING! Coming from a husker fan we have to stick together(in the BIG). As sorry as we have been.💪💪💪💪

Awesome game. As a BYU fan it’s been fun to cheer for the rivals this year, y’all had a great run

"We'll save up our unused time-outs for games next year.....we know what we're doing."

As a Buckeye fan, I was a little disheartened that Utah didn't win this game. After the tremendous losses the team and community has suffered over the past year, I was rooting for them to top off the season with a fantastic win in the Rose Bowl. Those men put up a great show that every Utah fan should be proud of, and I respect every player, coach, trainer, and staff of that program for doing what they did this year. Rest in peace Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe.

Was obviously pulling for Utah but when all was said an done, this was a great game! That's why the Rose Bowl is quite possibly the best bowl game ever. It never disappoints. Here's hoping Rising clears his injury quickly an gets back to work for 2022.

Utah’s tight ends and covey balled out today much respect! The young receivers are gonna be so good for Ohio State Smith-Njigba is a monster already, Harrison Jr., Fleming, and Ebuka are great too. Ohio State’s defense just needs to step up next year and they could contend for the championship again

Time for Jim Knowles to fix this Ohio State defense.

Smith-Njigba... one of the finest athletic performances of all time in any sport ever...

I went there with my Aunt and the game was incredible along with the players and atmosphere

This, most likely, will be the best bowl game of the year. It's as if the other games will be a waste of time to watch. Great game.

The rose bowl always has great classic games. Like the USC vs Texas game back in 2005 I think it was. Great game today🤟💯

CJ Shroud was throwing dimes all game, dudes a special talent and he's only a FRESHMAN

Game was way more entertaining than the playoff games

This is why THE OHIO STATE IS SO VERY SPECIAL ❤❤❤❤YALL CONGRATS.

A true Buckeye never quits! Great win OHIO!

Much respect to the buckeye's.. I'm a die hard Utes fan but what a game.. I wish everyone could have been there live. The intensity in the stands was great.. Y'all have great fans...

That was an awesome game. As a Ute (I attend there), couldn’t help but wish our defensive line could’ve put more pressure on the QB. But hats off to Ohio for good O line

I was at a bar watching this game in ohio and the atmosphere in the bar was incredible at the end when the buckeyes won. Everyone was singing and dancing.

Ohio State playbook: #11 go long.

4:39 Zach Harrison out running Bryson Shaw while chasing down Rising on the big TD run is kinda crazy, Zach is 6’6” 270 and has WHEELS

It would be amazing if we could just get more games like this. Unbelievable display of talent on both teams, rose bowl crowd seemed amped too. Ah, instant classic, hope rising is ok, He’s big time! Go bucks!

Gotta love our kicker waving at the end 😂😂

Covey sure did wonders for his draft stock🔥

What a game

As a Ute fan here, I was very proud of todays performance. Hats off and congrats to Ohio. Hard fought game on both sides! 🖤❤️

It’s the Ruggles wave 👋🏽 at the end for me!!!!!!