Editing Ohio State University (section)

==Athletics==
{{Main|Ohio State Buckeyes}}
{{See also|Ohio State Buckeyes football|Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball|Ohio State Buckeyes women's basketball|Ohio State Buckeyes baseball|Ohio State Buckeyes men's ice hockey}}
[[File:Columbus, Ohio JJ 80a.jpg|thumb|[[Ohio Stadium]] is the [[List of stadiums by capacity|fifth largest stadium]] in the world.]]

Ohio State's intercollegiate sports teams are called the "Buckeyes" (derived from the colloquial term for people from the state of Ohio and after the state tree, the [[Ohio Buckeye|Ohio Buckeye, ''Aesculus glabra'']]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.osu.edu/news/history.php|title=osu.edu – Ohio State History and Traditions, Origins of the Buckeye Name|access-date=September 15, 2014|archive-date=June 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629023953/http://www.osu.edu/news/history.php|url-status=live}}</ref> and participate in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]]'s Division I in all sports (Division I FBS in football) and the [[Big Ten Conference]] in most sports. (The women's [[ice hockey|hockey]] program competes in the [[Western Collegiate Hockey Association]].) The school colors are scarlet and gray. [[Brutus Buckeye]] is the mascot. Ohio State currently has 36 varsity teams. As of 2017, the football program is valued at $1.5 billion, the highest valuation of any such program in the country.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Beaton|first=Andrew|date=September 21, 2017|title=How Much Is Your College Football Team Worth?|language=en-US|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-much-is-your-college-football-team-worth-1506000030|access-date=April 9, 2021|issn=0099-9660|archive-date=September 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921134034/https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-much-is-your-college-football-team-worth-1506000030|url-status=live}}</ref> The team's [[Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry|rivalry]] against the [[University of Michigan]] has been termed as one of the greatest in [[Sports in North America|North American sports]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Tracy|first=Marc|date=November 21, 2018|title=Michigan Tries to Steady That Big Chip on Ohio State's Shoulder|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/sports/ohio-state-michigan.html|access-date=April 9, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

[[File:Duke Blue Devils v Ohio State University Buckeyes.jpg|thumb|[[Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball|Men's basketball]] against [[Duke Blue Devils men's basketball|Duke]] at [[Value City Arena]] in 2021]]

Ohio State is one of six universities – the University of Michigan, the [[University of Florida]], [[Stanford University]], [[UCLA]] and the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]] being the others – to have won national championships in all three major men's sports (baseball, basketball and football).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.com/|title=– The Official Website of NCAA Championships|work=NCAA.com|access-date=September 15, 2014|archive-date=September 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915060401/http://www.ncaa.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ohio State is also one of only two universities to appear in the national championship games in both football and men's basketball in the same calendar year (the other being the University of Florida). Ohio State has also won national championships in wrestling, men's volleyball, men's swimming and diving, men's outdoor track and field, men's golf, men's gymnastics, men's fencing, women's rowing, co-ed fencing and multiple synchronized swimming championships.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/champs_listing1.html |title=NCAA National Championship Database |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070302144559/http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/champs_listing1.html |archive-date=March 2, 2007}}{{failed verification|date=April 2015}}</ref> The Ohio State equestrian team has won eight Intercollegiate Horse Show Association national championships.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2007/04/19/Sports/Equestrian.Team.Looks.To.Take.Ninth.National.Title-2853075.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition |title=Equestrian team looks to take ninth national title – Sports |publisher=The Lantern |access-date=October 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228105509/http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2007/04/19/Sports/Equestrian.Team.Looks.To.Take.Ninth.National.Title-2853075.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition |archive-date=December 28, 2008 }}</ref> Since the inception of the [[NACDA Director's Cup|Athletic Director's Cup]], Ohio State has finished in the top 25 each year, including top-six finishes in three of the last five years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nacda.cstv.com/directorscup/nacda-directorscup-previous-scoring.html|title=Athletic Directors' Cup Records|access-date=September 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207101234/http://nacda.cstv.com/directorscup/nacda-directorscup-previous-scoring.html|archive-date=February 7, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> During the 2005–2006 school year, Ohio State became the first Big Ten team to win conference championships in football, men's basketball and women's basketball. Ohio State repeated the feat during the 2006–2007 school year, winning solo championships in all three sports. In 2007, ''Sports Illustrated'' nicknamed Ohio State's athletic program as being "The Program" due to the unsurpassed facilities, an unparalleled number of men's and women's sports teams and their success, and the financial support of an impressive fan base.<ref>{{cite web|author=L. Jon Wertheim |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1105239/1/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228001136/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1105239/1/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 28, 2010 |title=The Program|publisher=Sportsillustrated.cnn.com |date=March 5, 2007 |access-date=October 1, 2011}}</ref>