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View Poll Results: What is the Buckeyes' most agonizing loss?
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11-22-69: Michigan 24, Ohio State 12 (To ruin a perfect season and possible National Championship)
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5.80% |
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01-01-71: Stanford 27, Ohio State 17 (This Rose Bowl loss cost the Bucks a National Championship)
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2.17% |
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11-24-73: Michigan 10, Ohio State 10 (This "loss" cost the Bucks a National Championship)
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11-09-74: Michigan State 16, Ohio State 13 (Big 10 Commissioner Wayne Duke gives the game to the Spartans)
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2.17% |
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01-01-76: UCLA 23, Ohio State 10 (Another Rose Bowl loss which cost the Bucks a National Championship)
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3.26% |
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12-29-78: Clemson 17, Ohio State 15 (Woody's Waterloo in the Gator Bowl)
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0.72% |
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01-01-80: Southern Cal 17, Ohio State 16 (Yet another Rose Bowl loss which cost the Bucks a National Championship)
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2.17% |
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12-27-90: Air Force 23, Ohio State 11 (A fiasco in the Liberty Bowl)
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0.72% |
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11-20-93: Michigan 28, Ohio State 0 (The undefeated Bucks lay an egg in the Big House)
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2.54% |
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10-29-94: Penn State 63, Ohio State 14 (The Bucks get annihilated in Happy Valley)
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1.09% |
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11-25-95: Michigan 31, Ohio State 23 (Tim Biakabutuka's 313 yards rushing ruins the Bucks' perfect season)
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5.80% |
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11-23-96: Michigan 13, Ohio State 9 (Another perfect season "slips" away....)
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12.32% |
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11-22-97: Michigan 20, Ohio State 14 (Michigan's victory caps a perfect regular season for the Wolverines)
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1.09% |
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11-07-98: Michigan State 28, Ohio State 24 (A 28-point underdog costs the Buckeyes a perfect season)
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162 |
58.70% |
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01-01-01: South Carolina 24, Ohio State 7 (A bad start to the new millenium, and Cooper's last stand)
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0.36% |
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1.09% |
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04-30-2005, 08:10 PM
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1969 scum. Jim Mandich riding around satan's pit, on teammates shoulders, is an image I have never been able to exorcise. The super sophs were my boyhood hero's. Their first loss crushed me. Watching that paganist celebration, of my heartbreak and misery, burned a deep hatred for anything rodent-bred in tsun.
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04-30-2005, 08:24 PM
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My reality check bounced.
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I was there and I still have my ticket stubs:The 1976 Rose Bowl vs UCLA.
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04-30-2005, 08:44 PM
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Senior Hurler
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I voted for the 98 MSU game. I still have nightmares remebering Dee Miller walking off with the towel on his head. That was the first year I became a OSU fan. I could not stop crying because it was my first loss as a true buckeye fan. |
04-30-2005, 11:10 PM
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Most agonizing thread
this one.
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04-30-2005, 11:38 PM
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Italy - World Cup Champs !!!
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regretably, I remember every friggin one of these...
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* ESPN announcer -- "at the .6 yards per carry Iowa is gaining, it would take 17 carries to get a first down"
* Brett Favre -- "they pay me to practice and off season work..I do game day for free"
* "If you visit Ohio State, there's nothing to dislike about the place," said Gateway coach Terry Smith. "They get 100,000 fans. They played for the national championship three of the last five years. They put kids in the pros."
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05-01-2005, 12:08 AM
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Buckeye Pride
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That 1998 MSU tore me up, I'm still not truly over that.
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05-01-2005, 12:23 AM
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The Mich State game
made me sick. I have followed the bucks for 40 of my 45 years and the 98 team had the most talent I have ever seen. That loss cost the bucks a national title. I am certain of it. I don't remember what undefeated team was given the title but OSU would have whipped them without a doubt. Damn! I am [censored]ed all over again! |
05-01-2005, 01:31 AM
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95 was by far the worst for me. we had a perfect season with a perfect team and a heisman winner on our hands and then had to slowly watch biakabatuka(w/e)pound our defense over like they were children. he was LITERALLY unstoppable and there was nothing we could do about it. we all knew the loss was inevitable and for about a full hour we had to few the agony of them destroying us knowing we would lose.
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05-01-2005, 01:48 AM
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I would take the 1996 Michigan loss over any loss that I have ever seen. I thought the way Ohio State played against Indiana was a team looking ahead. I finally thought this was Cooper's year, it wasn't meant to be as long as Coop was head coach. Only getting 3 field goals inside the 10 with that offensive line was pathetic. I think losing Joe Montgomery factored in not getting a TD and he was bigger loss than people realize. That offense really didn't do anything the last 3 games without him.
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Originally Posted by Jeffcat
95 was by far the worst for me. we had a perfect season with a perfect team and a heisman winner on our hands and then had to slowly watch biakabatuka(w/e)pound our defense over like they were children. he was LITERALLY unstoppable and there was nothing we could do about it. we all knew the loss was inevitable and for about a full hour we had to few the agony of them destroying us knowing we would lose.
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The 1995 team was not a perfect team. Yes, the offense was near perfect. The run defense was horrendous all season. Allowed 9 100 yard rushers. Freshman Enis ran all over them. Notre Dame's Dusty Kinder and Marc Edwards ran all over that defense. Cooper's long time DC left after that season. He ran some passive bull[censored] defense and rarely blitzed. Bellisari was not suited to play MLB and Kevin Johnson wasn't anything special at OLB. I really don't think it would mattered if Ohio State would have won this game anyways. Nebraska would have been out right champs.
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05-01-2005, 08:25 AM
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