- Since Woody took over in 1951, OSU has pitched 60 shut-outs
- 14 of those shut-outs have been on the road
- 5 of those road shut-outs have been over Illinois
- The last time we shut Michigan out was in 1962 - the last OSU game before I was born
- OSU pitched shut-outs in the first 2 games of 1963 - the first OSU games of my life (combined with scUM '62 this was 3 in a row)
- The only other run of 3 consecutive shut-outs was in 1973
- 1973 featured 4 shut-outs in 5 games
- Woody pitched a shut-out in his first game as coach (7-0 over SMU)
- Earle Bruce pitched shut-outs in 5 of his first 19 games
- Earle shut-out Wisconsin the first 2 times he played them
- The second of these marked the 5th time in 8 games the Bucks Bageled the Badgers
- This marked the only time in the Woody-Present Era that we shut-out a team in back-back games
- After the 2nd consecutive shut-out of Wisconsin, Earl went 42 straight games without a shut-out. By far the longest span in OSU history to that point.
- John Cooper posted 4 shut-outs in his first 91 games at the helm
- John Cooper posted 6 shut-outs in his next 36 games
- John Cooper finished his career with 31 consecutive games without a shut-out
- Jim Tressel kept Cooper's Streak alive for 30 more games, before his lone shut-out to date
- The 61 games Cooper-Tressel collaboration is by far the longest streak in OSU history.
- Earle's run of 42 games is still in 2nd place
- Jim Tressel's only shut-out came against Northwestern (20-0)
- OSU has played 32 games without posting another shut-out
- Only 4 streaks are longer than the current streak, none older than Earle's run of 42
- Without defensive intervention, as of the game against Bowling Green on October 7th, OSU will have posted 1 shut-out in 100 games.
- In 1899, OSU pitched 9 shut-out wins and had one 5-5 tie
- Last year a near shut-out was broken up by a certain score that wasn't possible during any other coach's tenure
- Mentioning this event more directly than I just did should be grounds for a permanent ban
Bear in mind though that, as recently as Cooper's streak of 6 in 36 games in 95-98, shut-outs were xxx more common than they are now.
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