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Favorite OSU Football moment? (Merged)

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Jolly Dog said:
It's Sept. 30, 1995 and Notre Dame is in the shoe. There are 95,537 fans in the stands, the largest crowd ever at that time. For the past two years my wife, a ND fan, has been telling me ND will kick our butts. We are both in the stands, she's dressed in green and gold, I'm dressed in scarlet and grey. OSU starts out slow, down 10-0 in the first quarter but rallying to a 17-14 half time deficiet. In the third quater, Terry Glenn runs a simple hook pattern and takes off 71 yards to the house. The whole time, Allen Rossum, the fastest player on ND is chasing him, and Glenn just pulls away. It was so great a play, I'll never forget it. At the time it was the second longest scoring pass play (82 yards total) in OSU history.
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I have watched this game I don't know how many times. The crowd was insane for that game. There were so many great plays in that game. The Glenn TD is one of my favorite Ohio State plays ever. Lynn Swann was talking to Regis Philbin when this play was going on.
 
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1/1/69 Rose Bowl

Simpson preparing to catch a swing pass in the flat.
As the ball arrives, so does Jack Tatum.
Simpson spent the rest of the game short-arming the ball and looking for Tatum on those swing passes, which was one of USC's favorite plays.
I was 12, and can still see the play to this day (as a matter of fact, I was just discussing the play with my brother a week ago).
 
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It's "Holy Buckeye!" for me.

I grew up on Cooper Era football. All I knew from my Buckeyes was tremendous promise followed by tragic heartbreak. "Holy Buckeye" was a turning point for both the season and the program. That play was the point where hopes would have been dashed by a Cooper Era team. Instead, when the team had it's back to the ropes in West Lafayette, they came out throwing haymakers, and ended up landing a devastating and glorious blow for Buckeye fans everywhere. After that play, I knew there would be nothing the rest of the way that would deny that team or their destiny.

I'm not sure it is the essential Buckeye moment, but it is definitely the essence of the present era of Buckeye football. I will never forget where I was, who I was with, or how I felt when that happened.

As for the guy a few pages back that asked if the play would've been as special if not for the great call by Brent Musberger, I say yes. That play transcends the call, it transcends Xs and Os. Placed in the context of the previous decade of Buckeye football, it represents a reversal in the attitude and fortunes of the program and its fans.
 
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I'm a fairly young bucks fan.... I've always cheered for them, but didn't really follow them extreamly till 98' so I'd have to say my favorite moments are these

5. Ted Ginn Punt Return against Michigan
4. Holy Buckeye
3. Will Allens stop against Nc State
2. Maurice Halls Td run against Illinois
1. Sack on Dorsey
 
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Can't choose just one - sorry

The obvious are the Holy Buckeye!, Dorsey going down at the end of the NC game, the fourth and fourteen Krenzel to Jenkins etc.

For me there are two great moments:
My senior year at tOSU W. Allen picking off Navarre to seal the deal - I'm up in south stands and my buddies and I immediately sprint for the field. We make it down just as the guards are cutting people off and actually get to sing Carmen Ohio with the players, on the field (My buddies all got teary-eyed from the pepper spray; I was teary-eyed for different reasons all together).

When I first bled scarlet and gray was the result of not just one play but a sequence. It was '97 and #5 Iowa was in town to take on #4 OSU - It was the first time I can remember Gameday being on campus for a game (remember the good old days when that was still cool?). Corso puts on the Herky Hawkeye head and we all eat it up because thats what he wants us to do. At the time Tavian Banks was a serious Heisman contender.

Iowa's first two drives began with two running plays and an incomplete pass respectively. Of those first four runs, Banks is taken down in the backfield by big #45 EVERY TIME - Katzenmoyer was putting on a clinic. The game was not even close in the end, Banks got like 102 because Hayden Frye kept running him in junk time against our second and third string boys. That was the most I had ever seen a defensive player dominate a game single-handedly (except two years earlier when I watched him to do it to my high school team),
 
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The next one!

Can't even remember every play because my heart skips every time. I wonder if the next play will go to the house for the Buckeyes or save a game with a field goal or interception. It's nearly impossible to decide which one is the best because every one of them is poetry in motion to a fanatic like me. I tend to be much more calm on the internet than in person regarding my Buckeyes.

The play that made me dream about playing for tOSU was in 1985 (maybe off on the year I was only 11) against Iowa. They were ranked number 1. We were underdogs in our own house, nobody told Chris Spielman that. A simple dive play over guard, Spielman sheds the block and makes the tackle for about the 10th time that game. After the play Spielman's helmet is practically dismantled. The buttons are broken and the forehead pads are out. He's trying to put them back in when Chuck Long hurries to the line. Spielman throws the helmet back on, original bobblehead doll, and lines up. Long drops back to pass and rolls left. Spielman is giving chase and his helmet wont stay on falling over his eyes and down his face. After about 5 yards of chase he throws off the helmet and chases Long down causing a fourth down. The guy never blinked. He goes back to his helmet and trots off the field. The word tenacious comes to mind. That is my favorite play I guess, or the one that made me realize how much I love every kid that suits up on Saturday, every kid that represents the great Ohio State University.
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
The next one!

Can't even remember every play because my heart skips every time. I wonder if the next play will go to the house for the Buckeyes or save a game with a field goal or interception. It's nearly impossible to decide which one is the best because every one of them is poetry in motion to a fanatic like me. I tend to be much more calm on the internet than in person regarding my Buckeyes.

The play that made me dream about playing for tOSU was in 1985 (maybe off on the year I was only 11) against Iowa. They were ranked number 1. We were underdogs in our own house, nobody told Chris Spielman that. A simple dive play over guard, Spielman sheds the block and makes the tackle for about the 10th time that game. After the play Spielman's helmet is practically dismantled. The buttons are broken and the forehead pads are out. He's trying to put them back in when Chuck Long hurries to the line. Spielman throws the helmet back on, original bobblehead doll, and lines up. Long drops back to pass and rolls left. Spielman is giving chase and his helmet wont stay on falling over his eyes and down his face. After about 5 yards of chase he throws off the helmet and chases Long down causing a fourth down. The guy never blinked. He goes back to his helmet and trots off the field. The word tenacious comes to mind. That is my favorite play I guess, or the one that made me realize how much I love every kid that suits up on Saturday, every kid that represents the great Ohio State University.
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Wow! Fantastic post.
 
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What a great thread and a good one for my first post!

I grew up during the Woody years, and mine is more of a defining moment for how Woody viewed how football should be. It was 74 or 75 vs Indiana and was a total mismatch from the start, but I still remember one sequence of plays.
1st down on the IU 20, and Woody goes to the Fullhouse T formation. 4 straight plays he runs Pete Johnson right behind Chris Ward, getting about 5 yards each time, and scoring on the fourth play. It was not "exciting" football, but if you knew what Woody's teams tried to accomplish, it was "beautiful" football. How utterly demoralizing it had to be to be in an IU uniform right then!
To me, the fullback running it down the opponent's throat from the Fullhouse T formation is the epitome of OSU football.
 
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don't remember who it was, but it was ND at ND I think ... and the opening kickoff, they almost took it back for a TD ... I was going crazy watching the game down here in SFLA .. I HATED ND sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad .. who was that ?
 
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NightmaresDad said:
What a great thread and a good one for my first post!

I grew up during the Woody years, and mine is more of a defining moment for how Woody viewed how football should be. It was 74 or 75 vs Indiana and was a total mismatch from the start, but I still remember one sequence of plays.
1st down on the IU 20, and Woody goes to the Fullhouse T formation. 4 straight plays he runs Pete Johnson right behind Chris Ward, getting about 5 yards each time, and scoring on the fourth play. It was not "exciting" football, but if you knew what Woody's teams tried to accomplish, it was "beautiful" football. How utterly demoralizing it had to be to be in an IU uniform right then!
To me, the fullback running it down the opponent's throat from the Fullhouse T formation is the epitome of OSU football.
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Nice post. Nice memory. I roomed about three rooms down from Pete and he was one hell of a nice guy. But let me tell you, having that coming toward you with intent would have been one of the scariest things you ever saw!

The full house T? It was a thing of beauty if you were a Buckeye!
 
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The last minute and a half of the "97" Rose Bowl was one of the most exciting moments in TOSU history. Little Joe took over the game and led the bucks to a great win over the Jake ( smile turned to frown ) Plummer. That was awesome!!!!!! :osu:
 
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bucksnut68 said:
The last minute and a half of the "97" Rose Bowl was one of the most exciting moments in TOSU history. Little Joe took over the game and led the bucks to a great win over the Jake ( smile turned to frown ) Plummer. That was awesome!!!!!! :osu:
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Yea I loved that one also. Watching Jake 'the snake' run up and down the sidelines thinking he did it again....only to watch us march down and score.
 
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Favorite OSU Football moment?

Hi all, I'm a newb here... so I wanted to introduce myself by asking sort of an "icebreaker" question.

What's your all-time favorite OSU Football moment?

Mine would have to be that 4th quarter, 4th down TD bomb from Krenzel to Jenkins en route to a last-minute victory against Purdue in 2002 (which ultimately led to the National Title that year).

Watching Krenzel get forced up out of the pocket... seeing him throw it on the run... waiting (for what seemed like hours) for that ball to come down... hoping Jenkins wouldn't bobble it...

Absolutely awesome.


I'd love to hear what the rest of you have to say :biggrin:
 
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