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

[MililaniBuckeye]

1969 - without that 24-12 loss, the SuperSophs would have had a 3-peat. The Natty for the 1970 Coaches poll was awarded before the bowl games, and tOSU would have been ahead of Texas if they’d been defending 2 Natties. The loss to Stanford would have only affected the AP poll.

The Florida loss after the 2006 season and the 1976 Rose Bowl loss in Archie’s last game are the next closest for me.

This. I've been a Buckeye fan since '68 and no other loss even comes close...

 

[1926Buckeyes]

1969 - without that 24-12 loss, the SuperSophs would have had a 3-peat. The Natty for the 1970 Coaches poll was awarded before the bowl games, and tOSU would have been ahead of Texas if they’d been defending 2 Natties. The loss to Stanford would have only affected the AP poll.

The Florida loss after the 2006 season and the 1976 Rose Bowl loss in Archie’s last game are the next closest for me.

If I’m not mistaken, ‘69 also led to Woody becoming even more conservative offensively. IMO that loss had a huge effect on ‘70 and ‘73-‘75.

Could’ve been an all time run of NCs. At the very least OSU outright beats the cheaters and wins it all in ‘73.

 

[WoodyWorshiper]

I'm 63 years old, 53 of them as a die hard Buckeyes fan, and there is one that will haunt me until the day I die.
1974 Michigan State.
It's mind boggling that the teams from 73-75 won zero Natty's. They should have won all three, and this great team was tucked right in the middle. I was 12 years old at the time and cried like a baby the rest of the day after that loss. I still to this day have nightmares about Levi Jackson taking that handoff and breaking through the line and................Fuck it. We all know what happened after that.

 

[gmen6981]

I'm 63 years old, 53 of them as a die hard Buckeyes fan, and there is one that will haunt me until the day I die.
1974 Michigan State.
It's mind boggling that the teams from 73-75 won zero Natty's. They should have won all three, and this great team was tucked right in the middle. I was 12 years old at the time and cried like a baby the rest of the day after that loss. I still to this day have nightmares about Levi Jackson taking that handoff and breaking through the line and................Fuck it. We all know what happened after that.

I've got a couple years on you and I considered making that game my choice. everything about that game was bullshit. From the the MSU first down reception that was an obvious trap catch ( the damn ball bounced on the ground) to the final plays when the refs allowed Sparty to hold Buckeye players down, to the final two plays. I'll go to my grave saying Champ Henson scored on the second to last play, and the clock hadn't run out before the Bucks final snap. Then taking 45 minutes to decide who actually won the game.
If memory serves me, Woody threatened to kick B1G Commissioner Wayne Duke's ass with a table leg in the locker room when he told Woody of the decision.

 

[Bill Lucas]

1998 Sparty. Fuck their punter.

 

[WoodyWorshiper]

I've got a couple years on you and I considered making that game my choice. everything about that game was bullshit. From the the MSU first down reception that was an obvious trap catch ( the damn ball bounced on the ground) to the final plays when the refs allowed Sparty to hold Buckeye players down, to the final two plays. I'll go to my grave saying Champ Henson scored on the second to last play, and the clock hadn't run out before the Bucks final snap. Then taking 45 minutes to decide who actually won the game.
If memory serves me, Woody threatened to kick B1G Commissioner Wayne Duke's ass with a table leg in the locker room when he told Woody of the decision.

The worst was Steve Myers literally having his facemask held to the ground preventing him from getting up for what would be the final play. I too believed at the time that Champ got in on that last play, but I've watched it a 1000 times since and had to take off my Scarlet colored glasses to see it the way it really was. He didn't get in. Sometimes you get the calls, sometimes you don't. Fast forward to the 2016 TTUN game. There is nobody on the planet that can ever convince me that JT got that OT first down. If that was them getting the call against us, we'd still be bitching about it to this day. That's enough for me, time to go back to the thread about the Greatest Buckeye victory in your lifetime. 2002 Natty vs. Miami, and again, nothing else is even close! OH-