If you had one sentence to capture the essence of each game since 2001, what would it be?
2001 Tressel arrives and transcends the Cooper years “You will be proud of our young people in 310 days in AA Michigan.” 26-20 Bucks.
2002 Krenzel, Clarett and Gamble lead Bucks to 14-9 win and Fiesta Bowl.
2003 Something about a blind squirrel finding a nut.
2004 Troy Smith, Ted Ginn, Santonio Holmes, Anthony Gonzales (best QB and WR group ever?) hand Chad Henne, Mike Hart, and Braylon Edwards their first of many losses — 37-21.
2005 Troy finds Gonzalez for the “helicopter catch” to set up go ahead TD and seal the game 25-21.
2006 “The Game” 42-39. ***Honorable memory mention, this game was 8 games after Joe Paterno made his poopy pants “run” across Ohio Stadium during the Penn State game.
2007 Vernon Gholston nearly kills Chad Henne and Beanie Wells runs for 222 — 14-3 Bucks.
2008 Bucks Welcome RichRod 42-7, Kirk Herbstreit feared for Nick Sheridan’s health pre-game.
2009 21-10 Bucks, Tate Forcier throws 4 picks after winning the September Heisman in AA.
2010 RichRod has no kicker or punter, making fourth downs highly entertaining, and Boom Herron runs for 175 in a 37-7 thrashing — Eight in a row.
2011 Brady the Hoke arrives and forgets to bring long sleeves or headsets — late pass to Posey is one yard too far preventing our worst team this century from winning in AA.
2012 Urban arrives — Bucks win 26-21, Zach Boren plants Devin Gardner in the Ohio State turf.
2013 Marcus Hall delivers the most epic double birds ever on live television — Bucks win 42-41 after monumental efforts by Carlos Hyde, Braxton Miller and Devin Gardner.
2014 JT gets hurt, and Cardale Jones, CARDALE Jones, CARDALE JONES comes in, the rest is epic history — 42-28 Bucks..
2015 42-13 Bucks, Zeke goes for 214, Barrett runs for 139 and Joey Bosa nearly murders his old high school friend.
2016 This game gave us the Parallax explanation and Curtis Samuel gliding into the Buckeye end zone for the overtime victory.
2017 Dwayne Haskins comes in (after Barrett injured by cameraman) and hits Austin Mack — Mike Weber polished off a 30-20 victory in AA.
2018 Haskins and the Buckeyes win 62-39 leaving everyone wondering if Urban would have gone for two with one more touchdown?
2019 Dobbins dribbles to himself and the Wolverines respond by untying his shoe and jumping offsides on a crucial Buckeye punt — 56-27 Bucks.
2020 Chicken *hit.
2021 It took a blizzard, the flu, and our worst coached defense in history to get Harbaugh a victory.
2022 ???
