COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Ohio State Buckeyes are National Champions for the first time in 10 years and for seniors at Ohio State, it's the perfect sendoff.  "I feel like it still hasn't hit me yet,” senior Sylvia Fioravanci said. “I feel like I'm in a book. I've waited my whole life. So, being able to say I was actually in Atlanta for the game as well. So, witnessing that and also being here has just been such a surreal and crazy experience. I've also been a Buckeye fan my whole life. So, seeing this is this really surreal and super cool. After four years and not seeing a Michigan win, but then getting to see a national championship was definitely awesome and I'm just super proud of the team.”  Watch here: Ohio State football’s championship celebration It was a rollercoaster ride for Fioravanci and the rest of Buckeye Nation but that ride ended with Head Coach Ryan Day and the team hoisting the CFP National Championship Trophy.  "My first game here actually was a loss and then my last game here was a loss against Michigan, and then to find out that we were going to have a home game in the College Football Playoff and then come back here and watch us dominate Tennessee was definitely worth it," Fioravanci said.  Students began lining up outside Ohio Stadium around 8 a.m. Sunday to get a chance to experience the Championship Rally up close on the field.   "I was born a Buckeye,” Ohio State student Nate Deisner said. “I've been up since 6 a.m. I couldn't sleep because I was so excited. I'm so excited, bro. Just so excited.”  Ohio’s top teacher of 2024 culminates year with national championship trip Deisner was on the field for the Championship Celebration, and of course, in high spirits. But it was much different for him Monday night watching the game with friends.   "I was crying, I was crying, I was crying, I was crying, I was so happy,” Deisner said. “I threw up after Notre Dame started coming back because I got so nervous.”  When the game clock hit zero, "It's a real dream,” he said. “It's a dream come true.”  Buckeye fans come from all over the country and all over the world. Kelly Williams is a graduating senior from Long Island, New York.   "I came to this school to watch football, pretty much,” Williams said. “I'm from New York, and I wanted a big football school, so I came here. So, watching them win a championship for, like, my senior year, it brings tears to my eyes. It's always been kind of a little bit in the family. My older brother went here and then I came and I visited, and I was like, ‘I know this is the place for me.’ I hadn't been to a game before my freshman year, and that first game is something like, I'll never forget and then this being like the last game is, it's so special.”  Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles to take same position at Penn State, per reports Williams attended the Championship Celebration with her roommate Gabby Chahine. Her story of becoming a Buckeye starts with blood.   "My mom's an alum, so I grew up an Ohio State fan,” Chahine said. “So to be here and to celebrate with my friends and to watch that and to be able to share it with my mom is so special. It's a lifestyle. It's everything.”  There were only 500 student tickets allotted to OSU for the National Championship Game in Atlanta. Many students who wanted to could not go.  "We didn't get student tickets to the football game. [..] So, this is my Atlanta,” junior Ryann Allender said. “I got to watch the Buckeyes in the ‘Shoe all year. But unfortunately, I didn't get National Championship tickets. But I was willing to wake up this morning and be here and see the champs and the trophy on the field and so it was just so worth it and cool to bring it home to people like me."  Ohio State RB Judkins leaving the Buckeyes for the NFL Buckeye students stayed on the field after the celebration ended. Many of them laid down on the turf, looking up at the legendary stadium where the National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes play. Students like Dawson Stewart tried to take it all in.   "It definitely is just a lifelong memory to be on the field. I even ran a route at the end and caught a little end zone past my fanny pack," Stewart said.   Stewart also traveled a long way to get to Columbus and has a connection to Buckeye QB Will Howard.   "I'm from Manhattan, Kansas, actually, where Will Howard transferred from, Kansas State,” Stewart said. “It's just so cool having him here, having my K-State family and friends back home, like cheering for Ohio State."  The OSU grad student was in awe of the moment and the stadium in front of him, acknowledging that sports, and football, are bigger than just wins and losses.   Ohio State standouts Howard, Sawyer trade helmets for headsets at Raising Cane’s "This right here brings us all together as people and that's really the best thing about sports,” Stewart said. “This is a way that we can connect with each other and, like, form, you know, meaningful relationships and friendships and that, that that's what really matters in life.”