 When Holy Cross stunned their rival, top-ranked Boston College, 55–12, and Georgia overwhelmed second-ranked Georgia Tech 34–0, the Buckeyes topped Georgia in the final poll to win its first national championship.Brown had recruited what was reputedly the finest freshman team in Ohio history in 1942 but lost virtually all of them to military service.In 1943 Ohio State was handicapped when the school affiliated itself with the U.S. Army's ASTP officer training, which did not allow its trainees to participate in varsity sports, while schools such as Michigan and Purdue became part of the Navy's V-12 program, which did.