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Official Statistical Analysis Thread

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HorseshoeFetish said:
I'm becoming more convinced that the only thing that will be able to stop this team is themselves
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I have a horrible memory of a tOSU running back saying that when tOSU was ranked #1, and tOSU then lost the next week to the other team from up north.


"The only thing that can stop us is ourselves," Montgomery says. "It would be stupid for me to sit here and say other teams can stop us."
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http://www.si.com/vault/1998/09/28/249594/inside-college-football
 
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OHSportsFan said:
This game had to be up there for the largest yards disparity (Yards gained-yards allowed) in OSU history, yes?

Stat guys? @LordJeffBuck?
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Yep, the 553 yard difference in offense is the biggest in OSU history (I think LJB already posted that in either the game thread, offense thread, or defense thread).

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OHSportsFan said:
This game had to be up there for the largest yards disparity (Yards gained-yards allowed) in OSU history, yes?

Stat guys? @LordJeffBuck?
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It's hard to say because the Ohio State record books are incomplete, but I think that the Buckeyes set a team record for total yardage differential against Rutgers. I was able to find five games where Ohio State outgained its opponent by 500+ yards:

2016 Rutgers: 553 (669 - 116)
2016 BGSU: 532 (776 - 244)
2013 FAMU: 523 (603 - 80)
1942 Ft Knox: 512 (507 - [-5])
2014 Kent St: 502 (628 - 126)

I will update if I can find any other games.
 
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matcar said:
1942 Ft Knox lost 5 yards the whole game? Were they 15 years old playing against men?
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Fort Knox was a WWII military team. Some of those teams were very good (check out the 1943 and 1944 AP Polls), others not so much.
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The [1942] season began well with a 59-0 rout of the Fort Knox Army Base service team. With World War Two in full swing, many young men were in the armed forces and several military bases fielded football teams comprised of officers in training. The new Fort Knox squad was clearly unprepared for their opener, and the Buckeyes outgained them in total yards, 507 to minus-five, in a game that wasn't even as close as the blow-out score would suggest. In fact, Ohio State's second- and third-stringers scored 40 points in the second half of the game.
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