The Chase

Bill Rabinowitz offers a close-up account of a remarkable campaign by the Ohio State football program. The story opens on the sting of the 2014 Orange Bowl defeat against Clemson and carries through to a title celebration in Texas the following year. Along the way, the team has to keep going after losing two starting quarterbacks, and the book looks closely at how Miller, J. T. Barrett and Cardale Jones related to one another during that stretch. Late November brings a somber turn, as the author describes how the squad coped after the death of Kosta Karageorge.

The book also introduces the players who drove the team forward, including Joey Bosa, Michael Bennett and Ezekiel Elliott, with profiles of several other standouts. Readers get a sense of the personalities in the locker room as well as the on-field results.

It will appeal most to college football fans who want to follow one program through a single unusual season, from its first playoff push to its national championship.