<P> On November 28, 2011, two - time National Championship winning coach and Ohio native Urban Meyer became head coach . Meyer led his team to five division championships in his first five seasons as well as a school record 24 straight victories, beginning with a perfect 12--0 in 2012 . He led OSU to both the Big Ten and the first College Football Playoff National Championship of its kind in the 2014 season, giving Meyer his third national title overall and first at OSU . </P> <P> As of 2017, the football program is valued at $1.5 billion, the highest valuation of any such program in the country . </P> <P> After early attempts at forming a team in 1886 (led by future Nebraska governor Chester Hardy Aldrich) and 1887, football was ultimately established at the university in 1890 . On the site of the first OSU game, on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, on May 3, 1890, the Delaware County Historical Society has set an historical marker . </P> <P> Some histories of Ohio State football credit George Cole, an undergraduate, and Alexander S. Lilley with introducing the sport to the campus . More recent research has challenged that claim, stating that George Cole persuaded Lilley to coach the football team during its first full season that fall . </P>

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