Ohio State Fans Put Babies Under 'Beat Alabama' Blankets On Week Of Sugar Bowl, Can Buckeyes Advance In First College Football Playoff?

We knew Columbus, Ohio, was a crazy football town. The residents there love their Buckeyes as much as any college football fans in the country. But did we know they loved them this much?

With the Buckeyes set to take on Alabama in the semifinal of the first College Football Playoff, Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center will be dressing every baby born on New Year's Day in "Beat Alabama" blankets. Talk about being born into fandom.

Ohio State's official Instagram posted photos of the first babies cloaked in the festive blankets. According to the Washington Post, the school did this previously in November, donning newborn babies with "Beat Michigan" blankets. The Buckeyes did.

Ohio State will need all the superstitious help it can get against Alabama. Due to injuries, the Buckeyes will rely on third-string QB turned starter Cardale Jones to lead them again the mighty Tide, reports the New York Post. Jones has played only one other college game in his life, the Big Ten championship game against Wisconsin — in which the Buckeyes rolled 59-0. His rise from obscurity to stardom has been swift and unexpected, much unlike Nick Saban and the Tide's seemingly constant stay atop the college football world. The Crimson Tide will lean heavily on quarterback Blake Sims and wide receiver Amari Cooper to float a less than typically stellar defense.

But the babies won't know that. All the babies will know is that they've just been born and that something called Alabama is the enemy. It will be hate at first breath, and that's just how the elder Ohio State fans want it.

What a better way to welcome a new generation of Ohioians to a new year, and a new life full of Buckeye worship?