Year Record (Conf) Big 10 Finish Bowl Game
1988 4-6-1 2-5-1 7th (tie) No Bowl.
1989 8-4 6-2 3rd (tie) L 14-31 Hall of Fame Bowl
1990 7-4-1 5-2-1 5th L 11-23 Liberty Bowl
1991 8-4 5-3 3rd (tie) L 17-24 Hall of Fame Bowl
1992 8-3-1 5-2-1 2nd L 14-21 Citrus Bowl
1993 10-1-1 6-1-1 1st (tie) W 28-21 Holiday Bowl
1994 9-4 6-2 2nd L 24-27 Citrus Bowl
1995 11-2 7-1 2nd L 14-20 Citrus Bowl
1996 11-1 7-1 1st (tie) W 20-17 Rose Bowl
1997 10-3 6-2 2nd (tie) L 14-31 Sugar Bowl
1998 11-1 7-1 1st (tie) W 24-14 Sugar Bowl
1999 6-6 3-5 8th (tie) No Bowl.
2000 8-4 5-3 4th L 7-24 Outback Bowl

All time record against Michigan: 2-10-1.

Be grateful for what we have now.

This is the worst coached elite team in America

The last sentence of your post says it all! Maybe the team need to watch the movie, “Hoosiers”. To use an analogy, the field is one hundred yards for both teams and each get four downs and equal number of timeouts. I remember ‘02 when the Miami players were “licking their chops”, ready to feast on the slow farmboys from OSU. They went on how our D would never touch their QB. Remember the nightmare that Dorsey lived through? We unleashed against a “superior” team and in the end brought home the crystal. OSU has to take chances against SC, the injured Sanchez is simply too good to leave him untouched all night. If you have a copy of that game watch it tonight and you will see the plan for the SC game. As fans we can only watch and hope that the Buckeyes will be prepared for next week. One thing for sure, Beanie alone won’t be the answer. Everyone will have to “play to the great level, if only for one game.”

But let’s step back a bit….

1. The Bobcats came into The Shoe after a tough loss in a game they felt they should have won.

2. Teams from Ohio always step up their game when they roll into C-Bus. A lot of these kids had dreams to wear scarlet and gray and playing in that stadium every week and this ONE game is their sole shot in actually saying they played a meaningful game in The Shoe.

3. Our leader in every way was on the sideline.

4. Our play calling was vanilla at best due to the coaching staff looking ahead.

5. We played flat, again due to looking ahead.

Everything was setup perfctly for Ohio to come in and give us a good game.

Yes we made mistakes, but I’ll take a game like this heading into USC week over a 41-0 route. Our senior led team just got smacked in the face and I would bet anything that this week of practice will be the best week of practice they have had in a LONG time.

I hope to God USC watched that game and they hope thats the team that strolls into LA, because it’s not going to happen. We are sitting 2-0 and have showed USC nothing.

By the way… Yes, USC looked FREAKISH in their opener, but it was against Virginia. Today, Virginia could only put up 16 against RICHMOND – only 9 more points than they put up against USC.

Their QB almost had a better day against USC than he did against Richmond going 21/29 for 204 yards – No TD’s and 2 picks against Richmond vs. 18/35 for 155 yards – No TD’s and only 1 pick.

They rushed for 91 yards against Richmond vs. 32 against USC.

I’m not saying that USC isn’t good, but let’s not claim defeat just yet…

Sean, the playcalling frustrates me just as much as the next guy, but you know they weren’t busting anything fancy out against the Bobcats, despite how dire the circumstances got. “Exotic” is a relative term when applied to the Buckeye offense, but we’ll see some stuff next week that we haven’t seen before.

Also, Beanie caught two balls out of the backfield last weekend after catching only four all of last season, so they appear to be trying to work that in. Perhaps they don’t have the same faith with Herron catching balls out of the backfield?

There is plenty to be concerned about — and maybe Tressel deep down likes that. The coaches have stuff they can ride the guys on all week. I wouldn’t put it past him at all to take the hand off the throttle in games like these for just that purpose.

As FB said, it was truly 60 minutes of suck, but it’s a “W” and I’ll withhold judgment until next Saturday night.

Lots of little annoying things today. A whiffed block on the ONLY OU player in position to tackle Ray Small on a screen pass that was set up to go for big yards. Multiple drops from the normally very reliable Robiskie and Hartline, including three on a single drive. Snatches of Bad Boeckman, although as Jason points out, a lot of the sloppiness today wasn’t his fault. Sanzenbacher might have been our best receiver today, and even he drove me nuts cutting back behind the first-down yardage on at least two occasions while trying to get more yards–though thankfully he got the yardage back both times. Dane, we love the effort, but on a day like today, just get the damn first down. And I don’t think today was the coaching staff’s finest, either. I have tons of respect for Jim Tressel, but sending Mo Wells into the line on a dive play on fourth-and-one was a disaster that I could see coming from Findlay.

Lots of props to OU. Solich and Bobcat fans should be extremely proud of the effort.

It was sixty minutes of suck, but the win still counts. Maybe it shouldn’t, but it counts.

Anyone who thinks this Ohio State team is going out to California and dropping 35 on USC is on crack. Absolutely on crack.

Ohio State will have to win a close, competitive, low-scoring game to win in LA, and I just don’t see that happening. That game today was absolutely embarrassing.

And I’m sunburnt. (Those OU fans were obnoxious as all get-out.)