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Game Thread Ohio State at Michigan State, 11/19/16, 12p ET ESPN/WatchESPN

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Tanner said:
What was a worse loss, 1998 or 2015?
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Jagdaddy said:
1998. Besides being up 24-9 in the second half, the Buckeyes were in a 30-year NC dry spell that the 1998 squad should have ended. Also, 1998 Sparty was an average team.
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I've always thought '98 was the worst, but I am starting to think 2015 might be it. Kirk Barton thinks it was the worst loss in program history and I'm not sure I can disagree. Most talented team in school history and one of the most talented in NCAA history lost at home to a team with a backup quarterback who isn't good?
 
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Tanner said:
I've always thought '98 was the worst, but I am starting to think 2015 might be it. Kirk Barton thinks it was the worst loss in program history and I'm not sure I can disagree. Most talented team in school history and one of the most talented in NCAA history lost at home to a team with a backup quarterback who isn't good?
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To keep this a "safe space", I won't list others, but several others in the program's history were worse IMO.
 
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Bill Lucas said:
1974. We won that fucking game.
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I was about to post the same. No one even knew who won for close to an hour after the game ended.

http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/12/04/1204-jack-looks-back.html

The Buckeyes quickly marched from their 29 to the MSU 5. Henson plunged within inches of the goal line. There were 29 seconds remaining, and Ohio State had no timeouts. Michigan State’s defenders were slow to get up following Henson's plunge, and Ohio State had difficulty running another play.

When the ball was finally snapped, it squirted between the legs of quarterback Cornelius Greene and was picked up and carried into the end zone by wingback Brian Baschnagel. Headlinesman Ed Scheck signaled touchdown, but field judge Robert Dagenhardt indicated time had run out before the snap.

To say that confusion followed is an understatement.

About 40,000 fans were still in the stadium when, 46 minutes later, Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke announced that Michigan State had won 16-13. Referee Gene Calhoun informed Duke that time had run out before OSU's last play. Calhoun also said that the Buckeyes would have been penalized (if time had not run out), because they did not come to a required one-second set before the ball was snapped. Ohio State’s No.1 ranking was a thing of the past.
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Tanner said:
I've always thought '98 was the worst, but I am starting to think 2015 might be it. Kirk Barton thinks it was the worst loss in program history and I'm not sure I can disagree. Most talented team in school history and one of the most talented in NCAA history lost at home to a team with a backup quarterback who isn't good?
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The '98 team just got fluked. It happens every now and then. Someone on the offensive coaching staff owed some dangerous people money in 2015. It's still the only that makes sense.
 
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in my short (46 years....38 of them as a cognitively aware Buckeye fan) life there are 3 losses that brought tears to my eyes...

1980 Rose Bowl...I cried like a baby. quickly forgotten by the Miracle on Ice roughly 2 months later.
1996 scUM game. barely married for 3 months and hosting our first 'watch' party for The Game...#2 ranking, 17 point favorite...I gave up on Cooper that day.
1998 Sparty...fuck Nick Saban. that is all.
 
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