The Buckeyes' Most Agonizing Loss

[BuckeyeNation27]

98 mich state for me. i called that one before even seeing the poll.

of course im only 22 so i have no memories of anything earlier than 94....but this one KILLS me. games like these are why people think OSU did nothing for the last 34 years.

 

[osugrad21]

Before I even read the choices 1969 came to mind...but the 30 year drought that we all thought may end in 1998 made that loss even tougher IMO

 

[bucknut11]

i too went with the '98 game. walking through the streets after the game, the silence and looks on peoples' faces were eerie.

 

[rickmcconnaughy]

I'd say the 1998 vs. Mich. State game....I've seen alot of Bucks games including my first OSU vs. USC '69 Rose Bowl on black and white TV and all the other games you fine "Gents" have been listing, but to finally come home to Columbus and go in person to my very first OSU game and seen in person the colors that I bleed....:! ...oh I can't go on...I can't re-live this....the painful walk out of the shoe and to see us throw nothing but passes in the last 1:29 of the game, when all we had to do was a pitch out and it's 7.....yes 7 points and we're back to Tempe'.....then finding my truck....it was towed....walking down high street and MSU fans saying my coat (team) sucks?..............My throat parched..dry...need a brew..anybody....maybe the dispatch will have it right..."Dewey wins"

That game was an embarrassment to TOSU football program and Coop needed his head out of the sand again!

Sorry..my first OSU game in person!

 

[DEBuckeye]

MSU '98. Incredibly talented team, could have been a NC. I don't think I'll ever forget watching that one on TV- when we were intercepted at the last minute it felt like someone had kicked me square in the stomach. I walked around in a daze for most of the next week.

 

[RAMdrvr1]

I will NEVER get over the 98' MS game. Probably 2nd for me (not close to #1) would be C. White fumbling before crossing the goal line, and the officials give usc the TD, anyway. To me, that was a game taken from us.

 

[buckeyebri]

This was a tough one. I was at the '93' fiasco in the Big House, so I had to go with that one :(

I would rank the MSU loss right up there too, especially leading 23-9 deep into the third quarter.

Another one that could have gone on the list was the game against UM in the shoe (80 I think) when Art ran the option on 4th and 1 at the goal line at the end of the game. It was in and win or get stopped and lose. If Art makes the pitch we win. He doesn't and sticks his head in the line and gets stuffed. Argh............

 

[EPBucks]

For me it was the 98 MSU game. I still remember going to church with OSU up 23-9 in the 3rd quarter thinking the game was over and than coming out to the car to find out that we lost. I think what made this the toughest lose because it was the first time that we had a legitimate shot at winning the title that I was a fan for. I was depressed until we thumped Scum a couple of weeks later.

 

[WoodyWorshiper]

Plenty of good points here, but for my age and mindset I go with 1974 scuMSU. This team has never really gotten the credit it deserved as being one of the, if not THE greatest teams we ever had here. The two losses it had that year kind of get lost, but Coach Hayes after the game called it "the greatest team we've ever had." That speaks volumes.

I'd also suggest adding the 1977 Oklahoma game as a contender. It was early in the season but it was huge, and the way it was lost certainly puts it in the top 10. JMO.

 

[BB73]

Probably 2nd for me (not close to #1) would be C. White fumbling before crossing the goal line, and the officials give usc the TD, anyway. To me, that was a game taken from us.

RAMdrvr1, That Charles White TD-that-wasn't was actually in the Rose Bowl that USC played against tsun the year earlier. USC won 17-10, and I'm pretty sure the non-TD was in the first half, so the rest of the game would have been played differently.

 

[holybuckeye33]

If you want to be sick for the rest of the day, just check out this article:

http://www.centralohio.com/ohiostate/football/legacy/highlights/loss.html

but to make up for it...

http://homepage.mac.com/geichel/iMovieTheater5.html

 

[NorthShoreBuck]

I voted for the 74 MSU game for a funny reason.

I believe that was the game where it appeared the Bucks scored the winning TD at the end of the game.

I was at a friends house and jumped and yelled touchdown, pumping my fists in the air, and punching a hole in their ceiling. :! They left it there for years and always told everyone I did it, how and when.

The 98 loss was a shame for a team so talented.

 

[artbytes1]

For me, hands down, MSU 98.

My sister and brother-in-law were in town for the first time in a year and we had plans to go out to dinner after the game. My wife, noticing the "remote of many pieces" scattered about the family room, quietly turned out the lights and ushered our daughters to the car to attend the dinner......without me. When they returned, I was still sitting, despondently staring at the wall. My oldest daughter asked my wife, "What's wrong with daddy?" My wife replied, "Nothing, he's just insane."

However, the pain of that loss (and the others on the list) just made the Fiesta Bowl NC that much sweeter.

 

[Jaxbuck]

EB was great in bowl games if a service academy or a team from Salt Lake City was on the opposite sideline. But having a .000 winning percentage in the most important bowl for a Big 10 coach, at least in his era, just doesn't cut it.

Does anyone else remember that loss to Bill Mallory and the Hoosiers ? Anthony Davis ran all over us. I just couldn't belive INDIANA beat us. They did wrong by canning BM later imo. He was the last of the conference's respectable dinosaurs (Paterno doesn't count).

Glad I am not the only one who wanted to vote for Darkest Day I and II.

All of the other losses listed on here were to teams that were/are at least roughly on the same level as OSU you can't say that about the IU program. What's worse they weren't fluke losses-they lined up and just beat the hell out of us. Living with the fact that IU had a better football team than OSU for two years was by far the darkest period of OSU history in my lifetime.

That loss to Air Force was a close second- I was ready to put a hit out on Cooper after that one.

I guess I am making a distinction between painful losses and disgusting losses so just ignore my ramblings. :!

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

bad memories....

I remember it like it was yesterday.....Shawn Springs "slips" and Tai Streets goes to the house in 1996....so painful to remember that game, I blamed that loss on Cooper, he got out coached by a team that wasnt as talented as us, we were unstoppable that year, it was terrible.

God Bless Andy Geiger for firing Coop......

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