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

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.
There is no other response. We were at a friends house for the game and I launched their TV remote through their front window. My wife is STILL pissed at me. As I am pissed about that outcome
 
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There is no other response. We were at a friends house for the game and I launched their TV remote through their front window. My wife is STILL pissed at me. As I am pissed about that outcome
It’s been close to 30 years now and I still feel it a little when I see something that reminds me of it.

It was like someone in the family died.

There is no doubt in my mind I was clinically depressed for a week or two after that game. I didn’t want to get up off the couch, go to work…anything.

Worst loss I have ever been a part of as a fan. Brutal. Just brutal.

Going to go fuck the cat and kick the old lady now.
 
Not questioning your feelings, but for me it isn't in the same universe. Florida was a 10-1 SEC champ. Michigan State was a meh 6-6 team that didn't go to a bowl game.

youre not wrong i just mean for me personally, changing that outcome 100% resulted in a natty (wouldve been Tress 2nd at OSU too plus the whole SEC>B1G crap wouldnt have gone into hyperdrive) and the other scenario was simply a reg season game
 
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youre not wrong i just mean for me personally, changing that outcome 100% resulted in a natty (wouldve been Tress 2nd at OSU too plus the whole SEC>B1G crap wouldnt have gone into hyperdrive) and the other scenario was simply a reg season game
It may been just a regular season game, but that loss most likely cost the Bucks a Natty too. Ranked #1 all season but fell to #7 after loss in a season where Cooper actually managed to beat TCUN. Finished #2 after the bowl win against aTm. A win against Sparty gives the Bucks a wire to wire #1 ranking and a Natty.
 
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It may been just a regular season game, but that loss most likely cost the Bucks a Natty too. Ranked #1 all season but fell to #7 after loss in a season where Cooper actually managed to beat TCUN. Finished #2 after the bowl win against aTm. A win against Sparty gives the Bucks a wire to wire #1 ranking and a Natty.

im sorry but if they had somehow won that game cooper was most likely choking it in another game. the fla loss was the champ game
 
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It is easy to say 1998 loss to Michigan State or 1996 loss to TSUN. If they were both wins they probably would have won the Natty in both years. Would the 1999 and 2000 seasons gone better? Who knows what the program would have looked moving forward. We might have not gotten the Jim Tressel years.

I would have to choose the 2022 Georgia game. A sure win over TCU to follow and the Natty.
 
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For me it's the 2006 natty vs. Fla. I almost said 1998 sparty but Cooper probably would've blown it vs ttun or in champ game anyways.
You know, after Teddy ran the opener back I literally stood up in the bar and yelled GAME! I did not see Ted taken out by a teammate in the end zone. I still argue that if he doesn't get hurt it's a different game, but, damn.

98 is just the Devil being a prick
 
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Great question. I'd have a tough time choosing amongst these:
1995 cheaters
1996 cheaters
2021 cheaters
2022 cheaters
2023 cheaters
2024 cheaters (but this may be the first on the list to get cut)

Others I would consider:
1998 Sparty
2005 Penn State (the Rail)
2016 Clemson
2020 Bama
2022 Georgia
2025 Miami
I stand by my initial response, but I want to add a few that you nerds reminded me of.

2006-07 Florida. You seem to have that higher on your list than I do, but I agree it belongs on the list.

2005 Penn State. This is the reason that the stupid White Out exists. This right here. I mean, they didn't invent it. But all of the college football world thinks they did. Without this game, no one cares what color their fans dress in. Of course, it makes their whining against the cheaters not as funny, because no one cares if they win or lose that game. And then we also wouldn't laugh at them for thinking they could have beaten Texas that year.

2008 Penn State. Maybe doesn't really need to have much consideration. I'm just annoyed, still. Punt on fourth and one and we win that game. Instead, Tressel has Pryor do a QB sneak, he fumbles, Penn State gets a short field to score a go-ahead touchdown.

2019 Clemson. How did I forget this? Eff Clemson. But we still would have lost to LSU, I think.

Is it only football? What about losing to Wichita State? Boof to that game, whatever year it was. Or to Florida in 2007. It was before my time, but also to Cincinnati in 61 and 62.

And how about the Browns effing it up against John Elway? Eff that nerd. Maybe the Browns wouldn't have left if they had a Super Bowl win in the 80s. He deserves to have embarrassing photos leaked of him and a sybian machine.

And eff Kevin Durant and the way he sabotaged 2016 just to go to Golden State in 2017. I hope he gets caught with an applesauce enema.

And 1995 Braves and 1997 Marlins. They can drink poop water the rest of their lives. Cubs in whatever year that was, too. Same with 2007 Red Sox. How about all of all the teams go eff some cinder blocks...
 
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