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S Earl Little Jr. (Official Thread)
- By RugbyBuck
- Buckeye Football
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Anyone else see that Earl looks like the friend in My Name is Earl?
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Game Thread Ohio State at Penn State, 10/22/16, 8:00pm ET ABC/WatchESPN
- By Jaxbuck
- 2016 Football Season Capsule
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It got us a decade of Big Game James so I can live with it but man oh man would the cult meltdown have been epic.
Skull Session: Jaylen McClain Names Three Under-the-Radar Buckeyes Entering 2026, Urban Meyer Reflects on the Cost of Ohio State’s 2016 Loss to Penn State
Jaylen McClain names three under-the-radar Buckeyes entering 2026, and Urban Meyer thinks a missed penalty led to Ohio State’s 2016 loss against Penn State.www.elevenwarriors.com
WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN. Urban Meyer believes one missed penalty changed the course of Ohio State's 2016 season.
In a clip from The Triple Option released this week, Meyer said an uncalled penalty on a late field goal attempt prevented the Buckeyes from tying Penn State — and ultimately cost them a Big Ten championship.
Holding a 21-17 lead with 4:39 remaining in the fourth quarter, Ohio State lined up for a 45-yard field goal on 4th-and-7. Penn State blocked Tyler Durbin's kick, and Nittany Lions cornerback Grant Haley scooped up the live ball and returned it for a touchdown, turning Ohio State's three-point lead into a 24-21 deficit.
The Buckeyes had one final chance to respond, but Penn State's defense forced a 4th-and-23 from Ohio State's own 29-yard line, where the offense failed to convert.
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“By rule, you can’t physically pull the field goal protector out of the way of the guy jumping through, and Penn State, the one win they got against us in 2016, they blocked the field goal,” Meyer said. “I turned it in, and I didn’t bitch a lot about it; my fault that we ran the field goal team on late. That cost us the Big Ten championship in ’16, and they later came back and said it could have been, and should have been, a penalty, if I remember right. That’s one that might have been — if they would have thrown that flag, obviously we win.”
Ohio State's loss to Penn State was its only regular-season defeat in 2016 and kept the Buckeyes out of the Big Ten Championship Game. Penn State went on to beat Wisconsin 38-31 for the conference title, but the College Football Playoff selection committee still selected Ohio State over the Nittany Lions for the four-team playoff.
Penn State lost to USC in the Rose Bowl.
Ohio State lost to Clemson in the Fiesta Bowl.
I wonder if those results would have been different if the referees had thrown a piece of yellow laundry 10 years ago at Beaver Stadium.
The world may never know.
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Thread of What You've Eaten, Cooked and/or Drunk Lately
- By DubCoffman62
- Open Discussion (Work-safe)
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Been craving comfort food made some Nestle tollhouse cookies
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It's Shark Week.....Again
- By ScriptOhio
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Massive great white shark spotted off NC coast. See where its headed
'Contender,' a 1,653 pound great white shark, resurfaced off North Carolina. Track the giant fish online.
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Massive great white shark spotted off NC coast. See where its headed
The Atlantic Ocean's largest tagged great white shark in history recently resurfaced off the coast of North Carolina near the Outer Banks, scientists said.
At nearly 14 feet long, the big fish named "Contender" appears to be heading toward Cape Cod and the eastern coast of Canada, according to a OCEARCH, a global non-profit marine research group tracking shark sightings and migration.
Researchers first tagged the massive great white shark on Jan. 17, 2025 off the Florida-Georgia coast, according to online data from the non-profit.
Most recently Contender breached the surface just before 2 p.m. ET on July 10.
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Just sayin': Anyone think Contender will pay a visit to Amity Island along the way?
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Game Thread ttun at tOSU, Sat Nov 28, 12pm ET, FOX
- By ScriptOhio
- 2026 Football Season Capsule
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From 11W: THE RIVALRY NEVER SLEEPS. Ohio and Michigan battle over everything — even who can have the most cases of explosive diarrhea.
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The rivalry never sleeps.
And neither will you if you get cyclosporiasis.
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The rivalry never sleeps.
And neither will you if you get cyclosporiasis.
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