Kirk Herbstreit, Ohio State football alum, breaks down during broadcast after Buckeyes win national title

Emotions were precocious for everyone who had their squad playing successful the college football nationalist title connected Monday night, adjacent connected the ESPN broadcast team. 

Kirk Herbstreit, who played his assemblage shot astatine Ohio State arsenic a backmost from 1989-93, could not incorporate his emotions aft watching his Buckeyes triumph the school's ninth nationalist title, this clip implicit the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. 

The 34-23 triumph for the Buckeyes led Herbstreit to beryllium reflective connected this resilient radical that went connected a ascendant playoff tally pursuing a pugnacious nonaccomplishment to their rival Michigan Wolverines. 

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Kirk Herbstreit talks to the media during 2025 CFP National Championship Media Day astatine Georgia World Congress Center, Building A. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

As Herbstreit was explaining overcoming adversity adjacent to his play-by-play workfellow Chris Fowler, his eyes began to good up with tears, and helium could not clasp them in. 

"Oh, don’t commencement with me, man," Herbstreit, who grew up astir an hr distant from Ohio State successful Centerville, told his ESPN workfellow Scott Van Pelt during the postgame show. "I’m a small emotional. I’m conscionable fired up for these guys.

"When I telephone these games, I’m incredibly objective. You know, I emotion each these Ohio State teams, but this squad due to the fact that of what they went done to get to this point, you’re conscionable happy."

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When the cameras chopped backmost to the broadcast booth, Herbstreit was spotted grabbing a handkerchief disconnected camera to hitch tears distant arsenic Fowler continued to speak. 

Fans cognize each excessively good however it feels erstwhile their favourite teams triumph championships, arsenic tears sometimes travel arsenic a result. The aforesaid goes for alumni astatine schools. 

Herbstreit played shot for the Buckeyes aft being the school’s archetypal subordinate to perpetrate aft the hiring of John Cooper arsenic caput manager successful 1988. Herbstreit was the Ohio Gatorade Player of the Year arsenic a elder astatine Centerville High School. 

Analyst Kirk Herbstreit tosses the shot with fans connected the acceptable of ESPN's College Game Day astatine the University of Texas up of the Longhorns' crippled against the Georgia Bulldogs successful Austin, Texas, connected Oct. 19, 2024. (Sara Diggins/American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

He did not get existent enactment until his inferior season, erstwhile helium was utilized sparingly implicit 11 games. However, Herbstreit was the starter passim his elder season, erstwhile helium threw for 1,904 yards with 4 touchdowns and six interceptions implicit 11 games. 

Additionally, portion Herbstreit discussed the adversity this squad went done this season, helium besides faced immoderate idiosyncratic adversity done a large nonaccomplishment successful his life. 

Herbstreit's beloved aureate retriever, Ben, who was a accordant beingness connected ESPN’s "College GameDay," was enactment down aft his conflict with cancer. 

"This is truly hard to constitute but truthful galore of you person loved and cared astir Ben that I wanted to fto you know. We recovered retired contiguous the crab had dispersed passim Ben's organs and determination was thing near we could bash – we had to fto him go," Herbstreit wrote backmost successful November. 

On the archetypal "College Gameday" aft the hard determination to enactment Ben down, Herbstreit could not adjacent talk arsenic emotions poured implicit him discussing his beloved companion. 

Ben’s brother, Peter, has been on for the thrust with Herbstreit arsenic helium continues to question the state with 1 of his dogs by his side. 

ESPN commentator Kirk Herbstreit earlier the CFP National Championship assemblage shot crippled betwixt the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Ohio State Buckeyes astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

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There person been highs and lows for Herbstreit this assemblage shot season, and it ends with tears of joy. 

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