Cardale Jones' Ohio State Journey: Highs & Lows, NIL and missing titles | Always College Football

Greg McElroy talks with National Championship quarterback and Ohio State legend Cardale Jones. Jones talks about growing up in Ohio, what drew him to Ohio State and that magical title run in 2014. If today’s college football rules were in place would Cardale have transferred? How much could he have made in NIL and were teams tampering with him before the 2015 season? Cardale opens up to tell some fantastic stories and makes the assertive claim that if there was a 12 team playoff in 2015 - Ohio State would have won it all. 0:00 Intro 2:55 Cardale Jones conversation 3:30 The 2024 Ohio State season was special 5:00 Cardale talks about growing up in Ohio and the pull to Ohio State 9:00 Ted Ginn Sr was Cardale’s HS coach and the impact he had 12:40 Cardale talks about how he got to Ohio State 14:50 Would Cardale have transferred if he could have? The ‘14 OSU season was a whirlwind 19:10 Cardale talks about the 2014 CFP run 22:10 Ohio State was confident against Oregon in the National Title game in 2014 25:20 Cardale talks about what HIS NIL would have been after the title run 28:25 Who tried to contact Cardale to transfer? Was it tampering? 31:22 Could Ohio State have won the Natty in 2015 with 12 team CFP - without a doubt 36:30 Cardale talks about changes he would like to see in the 12 team CFP 39:15 Check out the “The Buddy Way” on ESPN+ ✔️Subscribe to ESPN+ http://espnplus.com/youtube ✔️ Get the ESPN App: http://www.espn.com/espn/apps/espn ✔️Subscribe to ESPN on YouTube: http://es.pn/SUBSCRIBEtoYOUTUBE ✔️ Subscribe to NBA on ESPN on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBEtoNBAonESPN ✔️ Watch ESPN on YouTube TV: http://es.pn/YouTubeTV