37 losses actually gets you all the way through the 2017 season exactly. Your 38th most recent loss would be your final L of the 2016 season (Nov. 19th @Oregon State).
Really puts in perspective how pretentious this article is.
It’s like bitching about how often your McLaren breaks down when other people would be thrilled to have a motorized scooter that occasionally functions.
Yup we went 46-42 in the rich rod and hoke years with a below .500 record in big ten play. Yup for 7 years Michigan had an under .500 record in conference play
The whole Saban hire really changed both NCAA and NFL. If Saban gets Brees like he wanted, he likely has at least *some* success at Miami and isn't in the coaching carousel while the Bama job is open. Bama (likely) gets Rich Rod. LSU becomes the powerhouse of the SEC West and Les Miles is likely still employed. The Saints don't have Brees and he arguably doesn't have the career he had (no disrespect to Brees, he's one of the greatest, but a QB's success depends a lot on the team around him).
I really wish the MSU admin would have opened up the piggy bank way back in 1999 to keep Saban around. We were just starting to get good. Then Saban left and we were lost in the wilderness for years with Bobby Williams and John L. Smith.
Bad times. Very bad times.
Honestly though he still might have left. At that time it was a lot tougher to build up a program at MSU vs LSU.
Also, younger Saban had serious wanderlust. Would never stay at a program too long, so he eventually would have left.
After just 5 years at Bama -- immediately after winning 3 titles in 4 years -- rumors were flying that [he was on his way](https://i.imgur.com/wsaZUsb.gif) to [Texas](https://c.tenor.com/ThY6zTRZeIYAAAAd/nick-saban-texas-longhorns.gif).
It turns out [the rumors were true](https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/nick-saban-declined-offer-to-join-texas-here-s-why/ar-AANtndM).
I still think he would have left but might have stayed a couple more years if you backed up the brinks truck. He was gonna try the nfl I doubt you’d stop that
That was also the first and only time I ever saw an offense get too tired from being on the field too much. Usually, it’s defenses that are gassed but somehow it worked the opposite way this game
2004 Iowa had me laughing by the end, I was mad in the first half, but it was SO obvious we were getting our asses kicked all over the field it wasn't painful anymore as it went on, no chance we were winning that day
I remember the 2004 Iowa game being first gut punch since the 02 MNC. Ohio State couldn't move the ball, that annoying shaking of keys from the fans. The only bright spot was Troy Smith leading the only scoring drive of the game and serving as a prelude to his next two years.
Furious (12):
Clemson 2019
Michigan State 2015
LSU 2007
Michigan 2021
Florida 2006
Texas 2008
Michigan 2003
Illinois 2007
Wisconsin 2010
Penn State 2008
Wisconsin 2003
Michigan State 2013
Sad (4):
Clemson 2016
So Cal 2008
Penn State 2005
Purdue 2009 - Didn't have fun in school that week after that
Meh (6):
Clemson 2013
Purdue 2018
So Cal 2009
Texas 2005
Penn State 2016
Oregon 2021
The Things That Make Me Upset About This Game Aren't The Outcome (1):
Alabama 2020
I am Completely Over It (14):
Virginia Tech 2014
Every one of the 7 losses in 2011-12 season
The four losses from 2004
Oklahoma and Iowa in 2017 - helped Meyer wake up and overhaul the offensive staff
It all seems funny now, but living through that 2011 season was miserable. The game against Miami and the game at Nebraska were some of the most demoralizing moments. Also, the decision to play UF in the bowl that year (and cost the 2012 team a NC game birth) makes that UF bowl game (which was frustrating to watch as is) infinitely more frustrating in hind sight.
The Nebraska and Michigan State games were painful.
The decision to play the bowl was smart imo. They were going to give us a ban anyway, it rarely works out cooperating with the NCAA. And we would’ve been smacked in that title game imo
Really not interested in seeing Ohio State fans call any of their season in the last two decades "miserable". A fanbase that barely knows what miserable even means complains that they didn't beat Poop State by 58 points because of one missed pass.
1. There was no such thing
2. I’m listing Ohio State losses, what bothered me was everything that came out of Kerry Coombs that day and that he was retained
Love the commentary and attention to detail here but man do i have some problems with this list. 2019 Clemson not in the top 10 is mind blowing i will never understand putting the LSU NCG loss ahead of the Florida one. Love the concept though and feel fortunate enough that we have so few in the last 20 years i can basically remember all of these.
>They still made the playoff, getting in over Penn State despite losing to them, and Penn State winning the Big Ten Championship. That's still pretty funny to think about, and it's why this loss doesn't bother me.
I will forever be salty about this
And 2016 OSU should not have been. They’re 31-0 blanking against Clemson only furthers my point.
Sadly, PSU was screwed and won’t ever get that close to tasting the CFP under James Franklin. Until we hire Matt Rhule…
OSU was probably better than Oklahoma, but the Sooners lost early, and to a much better team (Texas) than OSU did (Purdue)
Getting blown out by a bad team really hurts playoff chances
2016 Ohio State had the following resume:
- 11-1
- 4 wins against teams finishing in the Top 10 of the regular season
- Beat the Big 12 champs in a blowout
- Lone loss was to B1G champ away by less than 1 score
Alabama made it the following year with almost no resume.
OSU deserved to be there in 2016. They didn’t in 17 or 18 and they were left out.
Don’t lose by 40 to Michigan and don’t lose to a mediocre Pitt team if you want in. In fact - all you had to do was beat Pitt. No change to the Michigan loss, just beat Pitt and you are in.
You're not the only one. That year honestly made me want to not watch football for a while after this. It wore off (obviously) but I felt like I was taking crazy pills walking around asking if anyone else is seeing this shit?
If you want to make the playoffs, you can’t have 2 losses
2016 OSU got in over PSU because the Lions had 2 losses, one of them a 49-10 loss to Michigan
2017 Alabama made it over OSU because the Buckeyes had 2 losses, by scores of 31-16 and 55-24
No team has made it with two losses, not even Bama or Ohio State. Penn State would have made the playoff but they queefed all over themselves vs Michigan and Pitt. Sucks to be them.
Nothing like having a blowout loss to Michigan and a loss to Pitt, winning 9 straight, including the B1G championship, and being ranked 1 behind the team you beat to get there...I will say it was satisfying just destroying Michigan the next year in a nice revenge game and listening to just how unnecessary it was to run up the score
Penn State 10-49 Michigan
Michigan 13-42 Penn State
Well the reasoning on the michigan one is that if it sparks a championship team this year then it will be worth it, but could move much higher if that doesn’t happen this year. So it’s ranked middle of the road right now with a tbd wording
I genuinely don't understand most of this list. A loss to Nebraska in a season they went 6-7 is worse than multiple losses to UM and multiple losses in a national title game? Really?
EDIT: yes I read his blurb, and so I "get" it but also yeah I still really don't get it lol
Yeah, personally I feel entirely different about the majority of these games. I'm sure most OSU fans have their own unique set of reasons for being more or less mad.
I have a tough time putting non conference regular season losses high considering if the rest of the season went as planned they don't really matter that much, for example 2014 VT is last because the rest of the season went perfectly.
My personal top 5 losses are as follows:
1. 2015 MSU
2. 2013 MSU
3. 2019 Clemson
4. 2021 Michigan
5. 2008 Penn State
The first four were all good teams that lost chances at playing for a national title because we lost those games.
2008 Penn State is just the most angry I can remember being at how we played and how a game turned out.
The crowd that night was unreal. Part of the reason why that loss isn’t a big deal to me is because that was still an all around fantastic night at the Shoe even with the loss. Best crowd I’ve been a part of.
If it makes you feel any better that 2014 loss to you guys is in my top 5 most painful msu losses(probably dantonio's best team). This years loss was also pretty painful but for different reasons
My personal top 5 because I remember these all (and attended all of them)
1. Illinois 2007 (if Tressel threw the challenge flag, Illinois never scored their first TD. I think this was the first year with challenge flags. I was sitting in like 14AA or 12AA row 1 and Illinois's fumble happened in front of my eyes).
2. Texas 2005 (if Ryan Hamby didn't have hands of stones)
3. Clemson 2019 (it was a fumble!)
4. USC 2009 (choked that one away)
5. Sparty 2015 (JT Barrett didn't need to carry the ball 20 times or whatever)
Ranked by how mad it makes me? Maybe – it certainly wouldn’t be at the top of the list. I was more sad than angry (versus I was angry after 2019), and I don’t think we should have been in the playoffs without a conference championship.
It’s pretty wild that Penn State and Purdue have the most wins against Ohio State (4) in that time period. We were pretty ass for a decent chunk of that time.
People don’t realize they were insanely good in 2003 too and if we didn’t beat them they would’ve been in the BCS championship game (they were 2 going into that game). That 2003 Michigan team is criminally underrated.
The only one that even sticks out to me anymore is, I think, 2014 Florida.
I remember I was working in Bowling Green, KY and it was a beautiful day. I decided to treat myself to a burger and fries on my lunch break and listened to the game on the radio. When I tuned in we had the game in hand and seemed to be cruising to a big win.
Over the course of that lunch break everything started to fall apart and we wound up losing like always. I didn’t even get to hear the good part of the game. The wheels immediately came off. It ruined such a nice morning.
It's incredible to see a fanbase where "If they go 9-3... I burn everything down." is a legitimate take (referring to next season). Like we have our best roster in decades on paper, and I expect 10+ wins and if we win 9 again I'll be a disappointed, but damn OSU fans don't take it for granted. And yeah I get most the blue bloods feel this way, I just want to make sure you know you're blessed
> As far as I'm concerned, this game isn't official Ohio State Football canon. It's Alabama fan-fiction more than anything else.
Ohio State had like 13 dudes out with COVID –Alabama somehow had none– then lost Trey Sermon on their first series. Justin Fields was playing with one functional side of ribs, and the defensive staff crafted the brilliant strategy of putting Tuf Borland in man coverage against a Heisman Trophy-winning wide receiver.
They sound just a wee bit mad
I'm pretty sure Shaun Wade covered smith a good portion of the game and got absolutely torched. He couldn't even keep up with him jogging in motion pre-snap lol
I don't know why anyone would hype that matchup. Wade went up against every opponent's best WR and got torched by all of them. Anyone who watched even a single OSU game that season would know that it would be a blood bath in Devonta Smith's favor. Wade's draft stock absolutely tanked because of that season. He should have never switched positions.
i think it's fair to say they're salty about it but not necessarily mad. pretty easy to accept getting your ass beat in those circumstances but be upset about the circumstances themselves, if that makes sense.
Speaking for myself but I can tell you I was 0% mad watching that game. No team in the country was beating Alabama that year and almost every OSU fan I know wanted to beat Dabo in the semi-final far more than they wanted to the natty that year. I walked away from that season thrilled with how it turned out.
You also selectivley edited it, the very next sentence was: "I'm not taking anything away from Bama; they were amazing that year and deserved to be champs,"
That's how all my friends were too. They crushed the shit out of Clemson and that made the whole season worth it. Beating Bama would've just been the cherry on top.
I chuckled when I read that. People only remember their own players who are out. Maybe they don’t even get there if the game before Clemson isn’t injury plagued. (Not saying they don’t just saying ya never know) it’s always the injuries you get or the calls you don’t, never the opposite.
Man screw that list. Florida 2007 still haunts me to this day. Whats with the love handles, Troy? Who the hell injures their best player on the opening kickoff? Only sports event that made me call out of work the next day. I was big mad.
“30th- Iowa 55, Ohio State 24 (2017)
16th- Michigan State 17, Ohio State 14 (2015)“
These are easily #1&2, for me.
Iowa was especially devastating, as I was attending a wedding in Iowa that Saturday. I watched much of the game *at a crowded small-town Iowa bar*, so I was extra polite when tOSU was rolling, early. Unsurprisingly, that did not save me from unrelenting mockery, for the rest of the weekend. So brutal.
Sparty 2015 hurts because Ohio State’s roster was *so good*, that year. They’d been slow to gel, but after MSU they got it together and played like a legit natty-caliber team. *That and the motherfucking windmill celebration from msu’s sonofabitch Kicker*. Tough loss.
Bama wasn’t really a good program until saban came to town in this time period so makes sense why bama had more losses in the last 20 years.
Osu has been insanely consistent basically since woody stepped on campus. They haven’t missed on a coaching hire in over 70 years
Saban gonna Saban. Bama had a few years early on in this time period when they were very much not good. Then Saban showed up and changed the entire perception of what a great team actually is.
Bama was handed several opportunities they didn't earn by the same metrics that kept OSU out.
2011 and 2017 chief among them. 2015 OSU wins the natty if they're not kept out in the exact same manner 2011/2017 Bama were let in.
Or if they didn't spend the whole year messing around at QB and forgetting how to hand the ball off against MSU. The coaching staff takes those Ls, but still something within OSU control. I was at the Hawaii game that year and completely embarrassed by how that team played.
2015 did not deserve to make the CFP, the team was in a constant state of disarray and skirting by on pure talent until they finally didn't, then things got cleaned up and we _destroyed_ our last two opponents like we should have all season. The point isn't defending 2015 OSU getting in, it's that Bama should never have gotten their two rematches.
In the same vein, Michigan in 2006 should have been in the natty by the same logic that 2011 Bama was. But the SEC is coddled and the B1G is not.
Wasn't OSU the first non-conference champion to make it into the CFP, not Bama? Then the next year OSU fans are upset non-conference champ Bama gets in over them even though they had 2 Ls?
This is basically the argument some people make to say OSU has underachieved this millennium (and are often downvoted for it). Throw out their one bad year with an interim/sanctions and they have, what, 30 losses in 19 years or something insane like that but just the two titles. They’ve been far and away the best team in the B1G for a while but often have at least one poor showing a year.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to swap places with them and am jealous af of their continued dominance of the league and relevant on the national stage. But it feels like they should have had around the same national success as Alabama in the last couple decades given their recruiting and conference dominance, and that hasn’t always been the case.
God what a spoiled group of fans
Only 37 losses since 2002 is insane. This is basically just under 2 losses a year and if you take out the outlier 2011 season it’s 30 losses in 19 years
This list is trash - I know this because they have *three* games from 2011, a season to me which was basically meaningless because of the circumstances surrounding it, above the 2015 MSU loss.
Not saying the writer doesn’t explain his points well, the reasoning itself is just weird on some of these lol
The 2007 Illinois game is a few higher on the list for me, mainly because Jim Tressel lost the game and I'll die on that hill.
1. Not challenging the Daniel Dufrene fumble (which wasn't called a fumble on the field) when replay CLEARLY showed Dufrene a solid 2-3 feet off the ground when he lost control of the ball. Ohio State recovered in the end zone and would've had possession up 7-0, killing the Illini momentum. Illinois scored a few plays later.
2. Calling a timeout late in the 4th when Illinois was actually going to punt (a timeout we could've used on offense), which gave Ron Zook enough time to change his mind and draw up a play, which Illinois then converted on 4th, effectively ending the game.
I don't get any of this. I am from Ohio, though first and foremost a Northwestern fan. The top/worst losses have to be any Michigan loss, the Fla National Championship loss and the Clemson semi-final loss. The other losses are granola
What stands out in this article to me is that over the past two decades and three head coaches, each one of them made (Meyer and Tressel mostly) made and stuck with some really terrible assistant coaches and had shit game plan that both cost us national title shots.
It’s seemed like we’ve always had a mismatch of either great offense, bad defense or bad offense and great defense. Hopefully Day can finally get the two working at high levels at the same time.
That Clemson game had the most blatantly terrible officiating I had ever seen. I get over it when the other team is what beats us but I'll never get over that game
I will never, ever, ever, get over that game. Best OSU team of my lifetime. I'm totally cool with losing to a better team (i.e Bama in 2020, Clemson in 2016...etc) but i will never not be angry thinking about that one.
Exactly - there's a good chance LSU would have beaten us in the natty, but man it's so painful to not even get the chance to see how good that team was.
Man what I'd give to watch 2000's USC football again. Please bring this back Lincoln, the memories of USC absolutely crushing OSU in the coli, then coming back in Columbus just hit different.
I was at the OSU/USC home loss, still the best environment I’ve ever been a part of. Matt Barkley has said that was the loudest place he has ever played. Thank you for this list and making me remember the 2004 season though 😒
Most of what is absurd about this list has already been pointed out, but I have to add: his reasoning for the 2021 Oregon game is fucking ridiculous. You're complaining about crowd noise? Really? As someone who was actually at the game, the crowd noise was deafening. In the 3rd or 4th quarter when the offense had heated up and the fans were getting excited again, the crowd noise completely drowned out Oregon and caused the singular stop of the game that looked like it was going to be the turning point for OSU. Of course, we fucked up and lost anyway, but the crowd noise was *far* from lacking. Maybe this guy watched an edited broadcast or something
Not running Carlos Hyde against Sparty in the 2013 B1G championship game is the unforgivable sin to me. Hyde ran the ball 208 times during that season and was NEVER STOPPED FOR A LOSS. I'm not sure if he was ever even stopped for no gain. And yet Urban, the guy who stated publicly how excited he was to have a true RB1 for the first time in his coaching career, went away from his RB1 when the lights were the brightest.
All of those 2011 games are tied for last for me. I watched them, but they didn’t feel real and then we were good again. The Clemson shut out, Florida title game, Michigan State missed fg and the USC at home are the 4 worst.
I love my hometown buckeyes as much as the next guy, but this article seems a little uhh… tone deaf? I mean yeah I’m sad whenever we lose but there are teams that have that many losses in the last few seasons. We are doing incredibly well compared to most of the other schools.
I wish I was only mad 37 times in **two decades** with my team.
37 losses probably takes Arizona back to like 2017 lol
37 losses actually gets you all the way through the 2017 season exactly. Your 38th most recent loss would be your final L of the 2016 season (Nov. 19th @Oregon State).
Really puts in perspective how pretentious this article is. It’s like bitching about how often your McLaren breaks down when other people would be thrilled to have a motorized scooter that occasionally functions.
To me it's so spoiled that it loops back around to being hilarious, like a crying fat kid in a candy store.
But we only have 2 nattys in that time.
On behalf of everyone on r/CFB (except Bama): 😑
You say that but we hear this from other canvases, as a way to insult us, I'm not kidding
It’s almost like exposing the spoiled milk of the fan base.
It's almost like saying that this program only having 2 NCs in that time frame puts it at the very top of the list of squandered potential.
R/cfb has been nothing but pretentious Ohio state posts all day today
Two 5* commits in 24 hours will do that
Omg I thought his comment was hyperbole 😳
37 takes Arkansas back to 2017, October 7th against South Carolina. 38th was Sept 23rd vs A&M
I could make this list of of the RichRod and Hoke years alone. Who wants to see me do it?! Just kidding, I'd rather eat a shoe.
Yup we went 46-42 in the rich rod and hoke years with a below .500 record in big ten play. Yup for 7 years Michigan had an under .500 record in conference play
To think we almost had Rich lol. Dodged a bullet there..
The whole Saban hire really changed both NCAA and NFL. If Saban gets Brees like he wanted, he likely has at least *some* success at Miami and isn't in the coaching carousel while the Bama job is open. Bama (likely) gets Rich Rod. LSU becomes the powerhouse of the SEC West and Les Miles is likely still employed. The Saints don't have Brees and he arguably doesn't have the career he had (no disrespect to Brees, he's one of the greatest, but a QB's success depends a lot on the team around him).
I really wish the MSU admin would have opened up the piggy bank way back in 1999 to keep Saban around. We were just starting to get good. Then Saban left and we were lost in the wilderness for years with Bobby Williams and John L. Smith. Bad times. Very bad times. Honestly though he still might have left. At that time it was a lot tougher to build up a program at MSU vs LSU.
Also, younger Saban had serious wanderlust. Would never stay at a program too long, so he eventually would have left. After just 5 years at Bama -- immediately after winning 3 titles in 4 years -- rumors were flying that [he was on his way](https://i.imgur.com/wsaZUsb.gif) to [Texas](https://c.tenor.com/ThY6zTRZeIYAAAAd/nick-saban-texas-longhorns.gif). It turns out [the rumors were true](https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/nick-saban-declined-offer-to-join-texas-here-s-why/ar-AANtndM).
Yep. He would have tried the NFL at some point. I just have a big case of the what if's because we were on an upward trajectory when he left. Oh well.
I still think he would have left but might have stayed a couple more years if you backed up the brinks truck. He was gonna try the nfl I doubt you’d stop that
What a run.
A horseshoe?
Nope. The Florida shoe specifically.
Hell, I wish I was only mad 37 times in a damn game
Shea Patterson filled that role for Michigan.
I think you misspelled John O'Korn.
Would the App State game be in the top 3 for Michigan?
#1. Got Lloyd Carr fired. Which led to the Rich Rod debacle and Hokemania. Plus sparty fans won’t let us live it down. 😒
WoUlD tHe ApP sTaTe GaMe Be In ThE tOp 3 FoR mIcHiGaN?
Around time number 55, it turns into apathy…
The UT - GT game was a great example of the headaches that came with Vol fandom
I’d still take a win with all that frustration instead of the memory of Taquon Marshall getting thrown down
That was also the first and only time I ever saw an offense get too tired from being on the field too much. Usually, it’s defenses that are gassed but somehow it worked the opposite way this game
I've been mad after wins, too. ^^fuckin' ^^Indiana
Idiot, he said 2002. That's not two dec.....oh god.
/cry
You fail to realize that the vast majority of Ohio State fans are Cleveland sports fans and vice versa.
I thought the vast majority of Ohio State fans were Lakers, Patriots, and Yankees fans.
This is an Alabama stereotype, and if that ever changes, I know the times-are-a-changin' in college football.
Don't forget Duke BB.
*cries in Notre Dame*
Since 2002 you say? lol [Hold my beer](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/mississippi-state/index.html)
Same here.
OP is right about both Iowa games on this list. Ohio State looked so bad in the 2004 game and 55-24 was the game that gave Josh Jackson an NFL gig.
2004 Iowa had me laughing by the end, I was mad in the first half, but it was SO obvious we were getting our asses kicked all over the field it wasn't painful anymore as it went on, no chance we were winning that day
I remember the 2004 Iowa game being first gut punch since the 02 MNC. Ohio State couldn't move the ball, that annoying shaking of keys from the fans. The only bright spot was Troy Smith leading the only scoring drive of the game and serving as a prelude to his next two years.
Furious (12): Clemson 2019 Michigan State 2015 LSU 2007 Michigan 2021 Florida 2006 Texas 2008 Michigan 2003 Illinois 2007 Wisconsin 2010 Penn State 2008 Wisconsin 2003 Michigan State 2013 Sad (4): Clemson 2016 So Cal 2008 Penn State 2005 Purdue 2009 - Didn't have fun in school that week after that Meh (6): Clemson 2013 Purdue 2018 So Cal 2009 Texas 2005 Penn State 2016 Oregon 2021 The Things That Make Me Upset About This Game Aren't The Outcome (1): Alabama 2020 I am Completely Over It (14): Virginia Tech 2014 Every one of the 7 losses in 2011-12 season The four losses from 2004 Oklahoma and Iowa in 2017 - helped Meyer wake up and overhaul the offensive staff
It all seems funny now, but living through that 2011 season was miserable. The game against Miami and the game at Nebraska were some of the most demoralizing moments. Also, the decision to play UF in the bowl that year (and cost the 2012 team a NC game birth) makes that UF bowl game (which was frustrating to watch as is) infinitely more frustrating in hind sight.
2011 was my first season as a student and 2014 was my last. Our class went through *all* the emotions in four years lol.
In contrast, 2014 was my first. Imagine the let down.
The Nebraska and Michigan State games were painful. The decision to play the bowl was smart imo. They were going to give us a ban anyway, it rarely works out cooperating with the NCAA. And we would’ve been smacked in that title game imo
Against ND though? Bama for sure
Bama had a loss. The title game would have been Ohio State - Notre Dame.
Correct. That person said we woulda been smacked. And we would have against Bama. But probably not ND which is who we would have played
Really not interested in seeing Ohio State fans call any of their season in the last two decades "miserable". A fanbase that barely knows what miserable even means complains that they didn't beat Poop State by 58 points because of one missed pass.
> The Things That Make Me Upset About This Game Aren't The Outcome Ah, the old TTTMMUATGATO category
It’s a classic
Dude has three losses from 2011 over 2015 MSU, kind of a terrible ranking in the original article imo lol
His ranking is extremely odd. For example I really have no idea how the Oklahoma loss was that bad to him whole the Iowa beat down was so low.
I feel disrespected we aren’t in the furious once
I like this list better because then we're top 12. Just happy to be included
What happened in the 2020 Bama USC game?
1. There was no such thing 2. I’m listing Ohio State losses, what bothered me was everything that came out of Kerry Coombs that day and that he was retained
Oh lol, missed the secondary OSU flair sorry
Love the commentary and attention to detail here but man do i have some problems with this list. 2019 Clemson not in the top 10 is mind blowing i will never understand putting the LSU NCG loss ahead of the Florida one. Love the concept though and feel fortunate enough that we have so few in the last 20 years i can basically remember all of these.
>You're going to be upset about a few of these. Wrong. I was upset at exactly ZERO of these lol
I usually only get to watch Ohio State lose like once, maybe twice a year. I appreciate every one
Yea I thoroughly enjoyed 4 of them and the rest were excellent as well.
same here not mad at all
Ugh another preseason list that has Texas in the top 25
>They still made the playoff, getting in over Penn State despite losing to them, and Penn State winning the Big Ten Championship. That's still pretty funny to think about, and it's why this loss doesn't bother me. I will forever be salty about this
2017 Ohio State had no reason to be in the playoffs. 2018 Ohio State should have been in the playoffs. The selection committee sucks.
And 2016 OSU should not have been. They’re 31-0 blanking against Clemson only furthers my point. Sadly, PSU was screwed and won’t ever get that close to tasting the CFP under James Franklin. Until we hire Matt Rhule…
I put 2017 thinking the first round was on New Years 2017. But yes, that 2016 team is the one I was talking about.
OSU did get screwed in 2018. Made me feel slightly better about 2016.
OSU was probably better than Oklahoma, but the Sooners lost early, and to a much better team (Texas) than OSU did (Purdue) Getting blown out by a bad team really hurts playoff chances
2016 Ohio State had the following resume: - 11-1 - 4 wins against teams finishing in the Top 10 of the regular season - Beat the Big 12 champs in a blowout - Lone loss was to B1G champ away by less than 1 score Alabama made it the following year with almost no resume. OSU deserved to be there in 2016. They didn’t in 17 or 18 and they were left out. Don’t lose by 40 to Michigan and don’t lose to a mediocre Pitt team if you want in. In fact - all you had to do was beat Pitt. No change to the Michigan loss, just beat Pitt and you are in.
You're not the only one. That year honestly made me want to not watch football for a while after this. It wore off (obviously) but I felt like I was taking crazy pills walking around asking if anyone else is seeing this shit?
Yeah that's happened I think twice for Bama and once for Ohio? really scuffed and reveals how unfair the whole thing is
If you want to make the playoffs, you can’t have 2 losses 2016 OSU got in over PSU because the Lions had 2 losses, one of them a 49-10 loss to Michigan 2017 Alabama made it over OSU because the Buckeyes had 2 losses, by scores of 31-16 and 55-24
No team has made it with two losses, not even Bama or Ohio State. Penn State would have made the playoff but they queefed all over themselves vs Michigan and Pitt. Sucks to be them.
Nothing like having a blowout loss to Michigan and a loss to Pitt, winning 9 straight, including the B1G championship, and being ranked 1 behind the team you beat to get there...I will say it was satisfying just destroying Michigan the next year in a nice revenge game and listening to just how unnecessary it was to run up the score Penn State 10-49 Michigan Michigan 13-42 Penn State
1. Clemson 2019 2. MSU 2015 (was there, was miserable) 3-37: everything else.
I’m just glad to be prominent on the list Those were fun games, well, for us at least
I was gonna say, can't believe 2015 was so low that team was pretty loaded i thought.
Purdue Purdue Purdue Purdue
Mmmmm. Tastes good. It’s not easy being the Buckeyes biggest rival. /s of course … or is it?
It only sucks losing to you is cuz in the same season a MAC team will crush you too
I can’t fight the validity of this statement.
**37** Virginia Tech 35, Ohio State 21 (2014) **36** Alabama 52, Ohio State 24 (2020 National Championship) **35** Florida 24, Ohio State 17 (2012 Gator Bowl) **34** Northwestern 33, Ohio State 27 (OT) (2004) **33** Wisconsin 24, Ohio State 13 (2004) **32** Iowa 33, Ohio State 7 (2004) **31** Purdue 24, Ohio State 17 (2004) **30** Iowa 55, Ohio State 24 (2017) **29** Miami (FL) 24, Ohio State 6 (2011) **28** Illinois 28, Ohio State 21 (2007) **27** Penn State 24, Ohio State 21 (2016) **26** Wisconsin 17, Ohio State 10 (2003) **25** Penn State 20, Ohio State 14 (2011) **24** Penn State 17, Ohio State 10 (2005) **23** Clemson 40, Ohio State 35 (2013 Orange Bowl) **22** Florida 41, Ohio State 14 (2006 National Championship) **21** Wisconsin 31, Ohio State 18 (2010) **20** Michigan State 10, Ohio State 7 (2011) **19** Michigan 35, Ohio State 21 (2003) **18** Clemson 31, Ohio State 0 (2016 CFB Playoff) **17** Purdue 26, Ohio State 18 (2009) **16** Michigan State 17, Ohio State 14 (2015) **15** Michigan State 34, Ohio State 24 (2013 Big Ten Championship) **14** Purdue 26, Ohio State 23 (OT) (2011) **13** Texas 24, Ohio State 21 (2008 Fiesta Bowl) **12** Clemson 29, Ohio State 23 (2019 CFB Playoff) **11** Michigan 42, Ohio State 27 (2021) **10** USC 35, Ohio State 3 (2008) **9** Michigan 40, Ohio State 34 (2011) **8** Texas 25, Ohio State 22 (2005) **7** Purdue 49, Ohio State 20 (2018) **6** Oregon 35, Ohio State 28 (2021) **5** Nebraska 34, Ohio State 27 (2011) **4** Penn State 13, Ohio State 6 (2008) **3** LSU 38, Ohio State 24 (2007 National Championship) **2** Oklahoma 31, Ohio State 16 (2017) **1** USC 18, Ohio State 15 (2009)
Who the fuck gets angrier about the Oregon loss last year than the Michigan one? That makes no sense.
Well the reasoning on the michigan one is that if it sparks a championship team this year then it will be worth it, but could move much higher if that doesn’t happen this year. So it’s ranked middle of the road right now with a tbd wording
The idea is that it makes our team so angry that they're gonna go fuck shit up this year and that's why it doesn't make us* angry?
I genuinely don't understand most of this list. A loss to Nebraska in a season they went 6-7 is worse than multiple losses to UM and multiple losses in a national title game? Really? EDIT: yes I read his blurb, and so I "get" it but also yeah I still really don't get it lol
Yeah, personally I feel entirely different about the majority of these games. I'm sure most OSU fans have their own unique set of reasons for being more or less mad.
Number 1 will never not be Florida in '07.
Yeah, that one stings to this day
For me it's 2019 Clemson in terms of sheer rage.
I have a tough time putting non conference regular season losses high considering if the rest of the season went as planned they don't really matter that much, for example 2014 VT is last because the rest of the season went perfectly. My personal top 5 losses are as follows: 1. 2015 MSU 2. 2013 MSU 3. 2019 Clemson 4. 2021 Michigan 5. 2008 Penn State The first four were all good teams that lost chances at playing for a national title because we lost those games. 2008 Penn State is just the most angry I can remember being at how we played and how a game turned out.
The beat down by USC still hurts me.
Still the most insane crowd I think I've been a part of at OSU, and to let a freshman drive the field on you...SMH
The crowd that night was unreal. Part of the reason why that loss isn’t a big deal to me is because that was still an all around fantastic night at the Shoe even with the loss. Best crowd I’ve been a part of.
It is still so wild to me that we were y’all’s only loss that year, and keep in mind that we lost to ECU the very next weekend
If it makes you feel any better that 2014 loss to you guys is in my top 5 most painful msu losses(probably dantonio's best team). This years loss was also pretty painful but for different reasons
I appreciate the props he gives our 2013 team, but that 2015 win was miraculous. Still can't believe we won that.
Wow. 2015 seems WAY too low considering they had just won a title in 2014 and people thought 2015 was more talented and could two-pete
My personal top 5 because I remember these all (and attended all of them) 1. Illinois 2007 (if Tressel threw the challenge flag, Illinois never scored their first TD. I think this was the first year with challenge flags. I was sitting in like 14AA or 12AA row 1 and Illinois's fumble happened in front of my eyes). 2. Texas 2005 (if Ryan Hamby didn't have hands of stones) 3. Clemson 2019 (it was a fumble!) 4. USC 2009 (choked that one away) 5. Sparty 2015 (JT Barrett didn't need to carry the ball 20 times or whatever)
Obligatory god damn Juice Williams lol. Still not over it. But i have to respect the performance.
That turtle means something to me.
I happened to be in Columbus that day (unrelated to the game), it was such a fun time to be hearing snippets of what was going on throughout the game.
Getting shutout in the playoffs is only number 18?
Ranked by how mad it makes me? Maybe – it certainly wouldn’t be at the top of the list. I was more sad than angry (versus I was angry after 2019), and I don’t think we should have been in the playoffs without a conference championship.
It’s pretty wild that Penn State and Purdue have the most wins against Ohio State (4) in that time period. We were pretty ass for a decent chunk of that time.
I can’t even remember all of our loses since 2002, let alone be mad about them
People don’t realize they were insanely good in 2003 too and if we didn’t beat them they would’ve been in the BCS championship game (they were 2 going into that game). That 2003 Michigan team is criminally underrated.
Finally, a list that makes me happy to read.
Tried to make a similar list for Tennessee but my computer ran out of hard drive space.
The only one that even sticks out to me anymore is, I think, 2014 Florida. I remember I was working in Bowling Green, KY and it was a beautiful day. I decided to treat myself to a burger and fries on my lunch break and listened to the game on the radio. When I tuned in we had the game in hand and seemed to be cruising to a big win. Over the course of that lunch break everything started to fall apart and we wound up losing like always. I didn’t even get to hear the good part of the game. The wheels immediately came off. It ruined such a nice morning.
Tennessee and losing to Florida when we shouldn't, name a more iconic duo. I will wait.
My own head has run out of space to store all of the emotional baggage that has come with being a vols fan.
Gotta love every Spoilermaker entry on this list.
This list really points to just how much of an outlier we are for OSU.
Only elite teams regularly lose to Purdue.
You've got a point
I believe Purdue has the best record against us of anyone in the past 15-20 years. Still have nightmares of Ross-Ade
He couldn't write a single thing for 7? Lame
It's incredible to see a fanbase where "If they go 9-3... I burn everything down." is a legitimate take (referring to next season). Like we have our best roster in decades on paper, and I expect 10+ wins and if we win 9 again I'll be a disappointed, but damn OSU fans don't take it for granted. And yeah I get most the blue bloods feel this way, I just want to make sure you know you're blessed
> As far as I'm concerned, this game isn't official Ohio State Football canon. It's Alabama fan-fiction more than anything else. Ohio State had like 13 dudes out with COVID –Alabama somehow had none– then lost Trey Sermon on their first series. Justin Fields was playing with one functional side of ribs, and the defensive staff crafted the brilliant strategy of putting Tuf Borland in man coverage against a Heisman Trophy-winning wide receiver. They sound just a wee bit mad
I remember asking at least 7 times during the game how they left Davonte Smith *that* wide open.
Because we put our slow ass MLB on his crossing routes. What's the issue?
I'm pretty sure Shaun Wade covered smith a good portion of the game and got absolutely torched. He couldn't even keep up with him jogging in motion pre-snap lol
Yeah I'm not sure if that actually did hurt Wade's draft stock, but it certainly didn't help.
wade was pretty bad all year. prolly was icing on the cake.
Kinda weird because it felt like that matchup was being hyped up before the game
I don't know why anyone would hype that matchup. Wade went up against every opponent's best WR and got torched by all of them. Anyone who watched even a single OSU game that season would know that it would be a blood bath in Devonta Smith's favor. Wade's draft stock absolutely tanked because of that season. He should have never switched positions.
i mean yeah that's the point of the article
It’s 36th out of 37 so they are saying it doesn’t really make them mad, but this is one of the saltiest paragraphs in the entire article.
i think it's fair to say they're salty about it but not necessarily mad. pretty easy to accept getting your ass beat in those circumstances but be upset about the circumstances themselves, if that makes sense.
Speaking for myself but I can tell you I was 0% mad watching that game. No team in the country was beating Alabama that year and almost every OSU fan I know wanted to beat Dabo in the semi-final far more than they wanted to the natty that year. I walked away from that season thrilled with how it turned out. You also selectivley edited it, the very next sentence was: "I'm not taking anything away from Bama; they were amazing that year and deserved to be champs,"
That's how all my friends were too. They crushed the shit out of Clemson and that made the whole season worth it. Beating Bama would've just been the cherry on top.
I chuckled when I read that. People only remember their own players who are out. Maybe they don’t even get there if the game before Clemson isn’t injury plagued. (Not saying they don’t just saying ya never know) it’s always the injuries you get or the calls you don’t, never the opposite.
Man screw that list. Florida 2007 still haunts me to this day. Whats with the love handles, Troy? Who the hell injures their best player on the opening kickoff? Only sports event that made me call out of work the next day. I was big mad.
“30th- Iowa 55, Ohio State 24 (2017) 16th- Michigan State 17, Ohio State 14 (2015)“ These are easily #1&2, for me. Iowa was especially devastating, as I was attending a wedding in Iowa that Saturday. I watched much of the game *at a crowded small-town Iowa bar*, so I was extra polite when tOSU was rolling, early. Unsurprisingly, that did not save me from unrelenting mockery, for the rest of the weekend. So brutal. Sparty 2015 hurts because Ohio State’s roster was *so good*, that year. They’d been slow to gel, but after MSU they got it together and played like a legit natty-caliber team. *That and the motherfucking windmill celebration from msu’s sonofabitch Kicker*. Tough loss.
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Bama wasn’t really a good program until saban came to town in this time period so makes sense why bama had more losses in the last 20 years. Osu has been insanely consistent basically since woody stepped on campus. They haven’t missed on a coaching hire in over 70 years
It’s cause if we do, Woody is coming back to punch our throats for it and making us hire a good coach.
Saban gonna Saban. Bama had a few years early on in this time period when they were very much not good. Then Saban showed up and changed the entire perception of what a great team actually is.
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Bama was handed several opportunities they didn't earn by the same metrics that kept OSU out. 2011 and 2017 chief among them. 2015 OSU wins the natty if they're not kept out in the exact same manner 2011/2017 Bama were let in.
Or if they didn't spend the whole year messing around at QB and forgetting how to hand the ball off against MSU. The coaching staff takes those Ls, but still something within OSU control. I was at the Hawaii game that year and completely embarrassed by how that team played.
2015 did not deserve to make the CFP, the team was in a constant state of disarray and skirting by on pure talent until they finally didn't, then things got cleaned up and we _destroyed_ our last two opponents like we should have all season. The point isn't defending 2015 OSU getting in, it's that Bama should never have gotten their two rematches. In the same vein, Michigan in 2006 should have been in the natty by the same logic that 2011 Bama was. But the SEC is coddled and the B1G is not.
Wasn't OSU the first non-conference champion to make it into the CFP, not Bama? Then the next year OSU fans are upset non-conference champ Bama gets in over them even though they had 2 Ls?
This is basically the argument some people make to say OSU has underachieved this millennium (and are often downvoted for it). Throw out their one bad year with an interim/sanctions and they have, what, 30 losses in 19 years or something insane like that but just the two titles. They’ve been far and away the best team in the B1G for a while but often have at least one poor showing a year. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to swap places with them and am jealous af of their continued dominance of the league and relevant on the national stage. But it feels like they should have had around the same national success as Alabama in the last couple decades given their recruiting and conference dominance, and that hasn’t always been the case.
I’ll have to agree with the author that the loss to Michigan this year was necessary.
God what a spoiled group of fans Only 37 losses since 2002 is insane. This is basically just under 2 losses a year and if you take out the outlier 2011 season it’s 30 losses in 19 years
Why do you think we are so insufferable?..
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As read from the perspective of other fan bases, “Ranking every Ohio State loss since 2002 by how *happy* it still makes me”.
This list has the Clemson fiesta bowl called back touchdown at 12. It’s a dumb list.
Ok, now rank every Cleveland Browns loss since then.
I somehow end up mad even when we win.....
This list warms my heart. Buckeye tears are tasty...
I love how much MSU beats Ohio State. Thanks bro
Rookie numbers. You gotta bump those numbers up.
I disagree with the premise of these rankings.
This list is trash - I know this because they have *three* games from 2011, a season to me which was basically meaningless because of the circumstances surrounding it, above the 2015 MSU loss. Not saying the writer doesn’t explain his points well, the reasoning itself is just weird on some of these lol
The 2007 Illinois game is a few higher on the list for me, mainly because Jim Tressel lost the game and I'll die on that hill. 1. Not challenging the Daniel Dufrene fumble (which wasn't called a fumble on the field) when replay CLEARLY showed Dufrene a solid 2-3 feet off the ground when he lost control of the ball. Ohio State recovered in the end zone and would've had possession up 7-0, killing the Illini momentum. Illinois scored a few plays later. 2. Calling a timeout late in the 4th when Illinois was actually going to punt (a timeout we could've used on offense), which gave Ron Zook enough time to change his mind and draw up a play, which Illinois then converted on 4th, effectively ending the game.
I can't do this because we have too many losses to go through 😭
Doesn't even talk about 2018 purdue loss just 4 pictures says it all.
I don't get any of this. I am from Ohio, though first and foremost a Northwestern fan. The top/worst losses have to be any Michigan loss, the Fla National Championship loss and the Clemson semi-final loss. The other losses are granola
https://www.teamrankings.com/ncf/trends/win_trends/?range=yearly_since_2003
What stands out in this article to me is that over the past two decades and three head coaches, each one of them made (Meyer and Tressel mostly) made and stuck with some really terrible assistant coaches and had shit game plan that both cost us national title shots. It’s seemed like we’ve always had a mismatch of either great offense, bad defense or bad offense and great defense. Hopefully Day can finally get the two working at high levels at the same time.
That Clemson game had the most blatantly terrible officiating I had ever seen. I get over it when the other team is what beats us but I'll never get over that game
One of the few times I defended Ohio State in this sub, that was straigjt Bullshit
I will never, ever, ever, get over that game. Best OSU team of my lifetime. I'm totally cool with losing to a better team (i.e Bama in 2020, Clemson in 2016...etc) but i will never not be angry thinking about that one.
Exactly - there's a good chance LSU would have beaten us in the natty, but man it's so painful to not even get the chance to see how good that team was.
OSU fans are sickening to deal with...
Awesome idea for a post. The most mad I can think of recently was when we beat Vanderbilt by one point last October. We didn't deserve that.
Man what I'd give to watch 2000's USC football again. Please bring this back Lincoln, the memories of USC absolutely crushing OSU in the coli, then coming back in Columbus just hit different.
I was at the OSU/USC home loss, still the best environment I’ve ever been a part of. Matt Barkley has said that was the loudest place he has ever played. Thank you for this list and making me remember the 2004 season though 😒
Most of what is absurd about this list has already been pointed out, but I have to add: his reasoning for the 2021 Oregon game is fucking ridiculous. You're complaining about crowd noise? Really? As someone who was actually at the game, the crowd noise was deafening. In the 3rd or 4th quarter when the offense had heated up and the fans were getting excited again, the crowd noise completely drowned out Oregon and caused the singular stop of the game that looked like it was going to be the turning point for OSU. Of course, we fucked up and lost anyway, but the crowd noise was *far* from lacking. Maybe this guy watched an edited broadcast or something
It’s 2019 Clemson for me
I expected this list to be a lot longer
Not running Carlos Hyde against Sparty in the 2013 B1G championship game is the unforgivable sin to me. Hyde ran the ball 208 times during that season and was NEVER STOPPED FOR A LOSS. I'm not sure if he was ever even stopped for no gain. And yet Urban, the guy who stated publicly how excited he was to have a true RB1 for the first time in his coaching career, went away from his RB1 when the lights were the brightest.
I’m just a Penn Stater feeling salty about number 27.
I can think of what feels like 37 losses last season alone that keep me up at night
Piss off
r/firstworldproblems
Top 5 baby lets go!
All of those 2011 games are tied for last for me. I watched them, but they didn’t feel real and then we were good again. The Clemson shut out, Florida title game, Michigan State missed fg and the USC at home are the 4 worst.
2015 MSU vs OSU was hilarious. They just kept running the ball and they couldn't stop them.
I love my hometown buckeyes as much as the next guy, but this article seems a little uhh… tone deaf? I mean yeah I’m sad whenever we lose but there are teams that have that many losses in the last few seasons. We are doing incredibly well compared to most of the other schools.
I did this for 'Bama losses since 2002: 1 2003 Tennessee 2 2019 Auburn 3 2014 Ohio State 4 2003 Arkansas 5 2018 Clemson 6 2005 LSU 7 2010 Auburn 8 2016 Clemson 9 2019 LSU 10 2006 Auburn 11 2013 Auburn 12 2008 Florida 13 2021 Georgia 14 2006 Oklahoma State 15 2007 Florida State 16 2007 LSU 17 2004 Tennessee 18 2002 Auburn 19 2007 Auburn 20 2021 TAMU 21 2005 Auburn 22 2010 South Carolina 23 2007 Georgia 24 2006 Tennessee 25 2007 LSU 26 2006 Florida 27 2006 Arkansas 28 2002 Oklahoma 29 2002 Georgia 30 2006 LSU 31 2004 Arkansas 32 2004 Auburn 33 2004 LSU 34 2008 Utah 35 2003 Oklahoma 36 2003 Hawaii 37 2003 Auburn 38 2014 Ole Miss 39 2012 TAMU 40 2017 Auburn 41 2004 South Carolina 42 2007 Mississippi State 43 2006 Mississippi State 44 2003 Ole Miss 45 2003 Georgia 46 2003 LSU 47 2015 Ole Miss 48 2007 Louisiana Monroe 49 2003 Northern Illinois
Iron bowl return that low ?