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Stat Superlatives: Ohio State and Indiana

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November 20, 2020 at 6:35am
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Corso, Photo from The Ozone.net
Photo from Jim Davidson and the Ozone.net 

You have probably heard Lee Corso tell the story about taking a timeout when his team took a 7-6 lead in 1976. What he won't tell you is that Indiana only had 2 passing 1st downs and lost 4 fumbles in the loss. The first downs are a series low, and the lost fumbles are a series high.

The Buckeyes lost 3 fumbles that late October day, but scored a series high 22 points in the 4th quarter as Woody's team won, 47-7.

The majority of the information below is based on games played in this series between 1956 and 2019. 

The stats. Nothing but the stats. 
OHIO STATE VS. INDIANA TEAM STATS RUSHING
OHIO STATE STAT CATEGORY INDIANA
386 (1972) MOST YARDS 315 (1988)
76 (1972) MOST ATTEMPTS 65 (1959)
8.0 (2015, 2013) BEST YPC 7.8 (2014)
6 (2019) MOST TOUCHDOWNS 4 (1988)
75 (2015) LONGEST RUN 90 (2014)
27 (1987) LEAST ATTEMPTS 19 (1982)
77 (1959) LEAST YARDS -12 (2003)
2.1 (1966, 1959) WORST YPC -0.4 (2003)
0 (5 TIMES, 1993) LEAST TOUCHDOWNS 0 (30 TIMES, 2018)

 

OHIO STATE VS. INDIANA TEAM STATS PASSING
OHIO STATE STAT CATEGORY INDIANA
455 (2018) MOST YARDS 420 (2017)
34 (1998) MOST COMPLETIONS 42 (2017)
48 (1998) MOST ATTEMPTS 68 (2017)
.833 (1989) BEST PERCENTAGE .769 (1988)
6 (2018) MOST TOUCHDOWNS 4 (1982)
74 (2017) LONGEST PASS 76 (2012)
4 (1988) MOST INTERCEPTIONS 3 (10 TIMES, 2010)
10 (1972) LEAST YARDS 0 (1959)
2 (1972) LEAST COMPLETIONS 0 (1959)
4 (1972) LEAST ATTEMPTS 2 (1959)
.318 (1988) WORST PERCENTAGE .000 (1959)
0 (14 TIMES, 2011) LEAST TOUCHDOWNS 0 (21 TIMES, 2015)
0 (22 TIMES, 2019) LEAST INTERCEPTIONS 0 (12 TIMES, 2018)

 

 

OHIO STATE VS. INDIANA TEAM STATS TOTAL OFFENSE
OHIO STATE STAT CATEGORY INDIANA
639 (1981) MOST YARDS 487 (1983)
92 (2018) MOST PLAYS 95 (2017)
8.5 (2015) BEST YARDS PER PLAY 6.8 (1980)
147 (1987) LEAST YARDS 94 (1973)
49 (1987) LEAST PLAYS 41 (1956)
2.8 (1971) WORST YARDS PER PLAY 2.0 (1973)

 

 

OHIO STATE VS. INDIANA TEAM STATS SCORING (1958-2019)
OHIO STATE STAT CATEGORY INDIANA
56 (1983, 1957) MOST POINTS 49 (2012)
21 (1974) 1ST QUARTER 14 (1988)
28 (1985) 2ND QUARTER 17 (2018)
22 (2017) 3RD QUARTER 14 (1975)
21 (2014, 1976) 4TH QUARTER 22 (2012)
     
0 (2 TIMES, 1959, 1929) LEAST POINTS 0* (3 TIMES, 1997)
0 (12 TIMES, 2015) 1ST QUARTER 0 (30 TIMES, 2013)
0 (9 TIMES, 2014) 2ND QUARTER 0 (23 TIMES, 2013)
0 (8 TIMES, 1996) 3RD QUARTER 0 (32 TIMES, 2019)
0 (14 TIMES, 2019) 4TH QUARTER 0 (28 TIMES, 2019)

*Between 1958-2019, 17 shutouts all-time.

OHIO STATE VS. INDIANA INDIVIDUAL RUSHING
OHIO STATE STAT CATEGORY INDIANA
274 EZEKIEL ELLIOTT (2015) MOST YARDS 228 TEVIN COLEMAN (2014)
37 PEPE PEARSON (1996) MOST ATTEMPTS 34 ANTHONY THOMPSON (1989)
18.8 PAUL WARFIELD (1962) BEST YPC (MIN. 5 ATT) 14.0 ZANDER DIAMONT (2015)
4 KEITH BYARS (1983) MOST TOUCHDOWNS 4 ANTHONY THOMPSON (1988)
81 BRAXTON MILLER (2011) LONGEST RUN 90 TEVIN COLEMAN (2014)
-5.8 JACK WALLACE WORST YPC (MIN. 5 ATT) -6.4 CHRIS DITTOE (1995)

 

OHIO STATE VS. INDIANA INDIVIDUAL PASSING
OHIO STATE STAT CATEGORY INDIANA
455 DWAYNE HASKINS (2018) MOST YARDS 410 RICHARD LAGOW (2017)
33 DWAYNE HASKINS (2018) MOST COMPLETIONS 40 RICHARD LAGOW (2017)
45 JOE GERMAINE (1998) MOST ATTEMPTS 65 RICHARD LAGOW (2017)
.867 STANLEY JACKSON (1997) BEST PERCENTAGE (MIN. 10 ATT) .769 DAVE SCHNELL (1988) 
6 DWAYNE HASKINS (2018) MOST TOUCHDOWNS 4 BABE LAUFENBERG (1982)
4 GREG FREY (1988) MOST INTERCEPTIONS 3 DAVE SCHNELL (1988) /// 4 OTHERS
22 ART SCHLICHTER (1978) LEAST YARDS (MIN. 10 ATT) 32 BRIAN DEWITZ (1985)
1 PAUL WARFIELD (1963) LEAST COMPLETIONS (MIN. 10 ATT) 4 BRIAN DEWITZ (1985)
.100 PAUL WARFIELD (1963) WORST PERCENTAGE (MIN. 10 ATT) .304 TIM CLIFFORD (1980)

 

OHIO STATE VS. INDIANA INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING
OHIO STATE STAT CATEGORY INDIANA
159 DEE MILLER (1998) MOST YARDS 149 SIMMIE COBBS (2017)
13 DAVID BOSTON (1996) MOST CATCHES 11 SIMMIE COBBS (2017)
32.7 JEFF GRAHAM (1990) BEST YPC (MIN. 3 REC) 33.5 ROB TURNER (1990)
3 JALIN MARSHALL (2014) MOST TOUCHDOWNS 2 IAN THOMAS (2017) /// 3 OTHERS
74 PARRIS CAMPBELL (2017) LONGEST CATCH 76 SHANE WYNN (2012)
1.0 CARLOS SNOW (1991) WORST YPC (MIN. 3 REC) -1.7 COLE GEST (2019)

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