If you could change the outcome of one Ohio State football game, which would you choose?

[Zurp]

2006 vs Florida was the last time I can remember it being allowed for Ohio State to be "the team" without somebody attempting to shit all over us for something. Losing that one by getting absolutely dominated changed something in CFB.

Hm.. so, am I right in reading that you think that 2007-2025 would be different if Ohio State were to magically win that game?
How would those years be different, and why?
I mean, I'd guess that OSU still loses their Heisman-winning quarterback, plus top three wide receivers, and top running back. Boeckman is still our QB, and Beanie is still our RB... I don't know why we'd expect to beat LSU in 2007. I don't see any reason to believe that Nick Saban doesn't go to Alabama to lead the dynasty there. Tressel still gets fired after 2010.
Maybe it delays the SEC SEC SEC media hype for a year. But I don't think it stops it, or even reduces it.

 

[Jaxbuck]

If we are talking about changing losses for the overall good of the program (not personal pain expungement) I submit one common opponent, two games. Sparty 2013 and 2015.

Likely lets Urban win 2 NC’s and play for 3.

Take the fuckery of 2011 out of it and he probably wins one in 2012 as well.

That stretch doesn’t seem to get talked about as much in historical context for some reason.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

Hm.. so, am I right in reading that you think that 2007-2025 would be different if Ohio State were to magically win that game?

no, you're not

That stretch doesn’t seem to get talked about as much in historical context for some reason.

I think part of the reason is because the movement that started after that Florida game to shit on all things Ohio State/Non-SEC

 

[MGMT]

If we are talking about changing losses for the overall good of the program (not personal pain expungement) I submit one common opponent, two games. Sparty 2013 and 2015.

Likely lets Urban win 2 NC’s and play for 3.

Take the fuckery of 2011 out of it and he probably wins one in 2012 as well.

That stretch doesn’t seem to get talked about as much in historical context for some reason.

Agreed with everything except 2012. I’m confident that 2012 gets absolutely waxed by Alabama.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Agreed with everything except 2012. I’m confident that 2012 gets absolutely waxed by Alabama.

Wouldn’t they have been playing undefeated Notre Dame, though?

 

[Zurp]

Agreed with everything except 2012. I’m confident that 2012 gets absolutely waxed by Alabama.

Wouldn’t they have been playing undefeated Notre Dame, though?

1. I agree that they get smooshed by Bama.
2. How lame would it be if undefeated Notre Dame or undefeated Ohio State gets left out in favor of 1-loss Bama? I 100% believe it would have happened, though.

 

[Bestbuck36]

1998 MSU game forced vomit from me as no other sporting event in my lifetime did. I can't choose any other to change than that one.

 

[LordJeffBuck]

The 1980 Rose Bowl.

At the time, it was merely a gut wrenching loss that cost Ohio State the 1979 national championship. In retrospect, it was also the start of 15 years of mediocre Buckeye football that only ended with the gut wrenching losses of 1995, 1996, and 1998.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Agreed with everything except 2012. I’m confident that 2012 gets absolutely waxed by Alabama.

Bama would have been out in that old format. We would have played the Domers.

 

[Captain Buckeye]

Bama would have been out in that old format. We would have played the Domers.

And we all know how that game vs ND would’ve went.

UFM was very close to having titles in 2012, maybe 2013, and 2015. Sort of fell off from 2016-2018 but even that’s a 1-2 loss season

 

[Thump]

1998 MSU

Never have felt that kind of pain from football.

Don't give a fuck about Cooper or his legacy, he probably would have choked later but sweet Woody in heaven was that horrific.

This.

 

[Mike80]

If you could change the outcome of one Ohio State football game in the Buckeyes' rich history, which game would you change the outcome and why?

1969 loss to Michigan? Which would have given Ohio State back-to-back national championships and mentioned as one of the greatest cfb teams ever?

2015 loss to Michigan State? Does that team go on to repeat as national champions?

1998 loss to Michigan State? Does that team go on to win the national championship and does Cooper get more credit?

2020 national championship game against Alabama?

2006 loss to Florida in the national championship game?

2007 loss to LSU for the national championship?

1976 Rose Bowl loss to UCLA that cost Woody a national championship?

1980 Rose Bowl loss to USC that cost Earle a national championship?

You get the idea, and there may be others that you would select. So which one game would you change the outcome?

If I were to pick one, and only if the butter fly effect of not having Cooper fired 3 seasons later, then its 1998 against Sparty for me.

1996 TCUN is a close second.

 

[Jagdaddy]

If I were to pick one, and only if the butter fly effect of not having Cooper fired 3 seasons later, then its 1998 against Sparty for me.

1996 TCUN is a close second.

1996 was brutal. I only take 1995 over it because I don’t think 1996 would have happened without the 1995 loss.

 

[itownbuckeye]

2022 Georgia as I've no doubt OSU would've rolled TCU for a title. Very similar the 2007 Cleveland Indians who just needed to win one more game against the Red Sox to get to the patsy Rockies awaiting in the World Series.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Like ice dancing and @JCOSU86 ... 2019 Clemson still pisses me off.