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What year was Ohio State's best offense? 2019?
What year was Ohio State's best defense? 1973?
Your thoughts?
What year was Ohio State's best defense? 1973?
Your thoughts?
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Captain Buckeye
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Offense depends…
Arguable between the 2005, 2006, or 2019.
Defense has to be between 2019 or 2025 with honorable mention 2024.
Arguable between the 2005, 2006, or 2019.
Defense has to be between 2019 or 2025 with honorable mention 2024.
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Captain Buckeye
Assistant Coach
2019 overall was such a bummer. What a special regular season. I still watch it game by game.
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Wells4Heisman
Fifth Year Freshman
It differs from era to era, style of play etc…. I’d go 2019/2018 on offense and for defense I’d have to sit and think for 12 hours. We’ve been blessed in that department.
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That ‘68 defense is hard to beat. Tatum and Stillwagon. Shut down Leroy Keyes and OJ Simpson. Undefeated, national champs. I’m going with ‘68 for D.
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Captain Buckeye
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While that defense was gritty weren’t they like the 40th ranked pass defense?
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The ‘68 defense gave up 15 points per game.
The ‘73 defense gave up 5.8 points per game. The perfect season was marred by the 10-10 tie when Corny Greene had an injured thumb and never even tried a pass.
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Offense: 2014 team. After starting sort of slow (scored 34 in a win against Navy and 21 in the only loss of the year to Va Tech), they scored 42+ points a game in 13 of their 15 final games (the two they didn't were both 31-point games against Penn State and Minnesota). They scored 672 points totals for the year (44.8 ppg) and 617 points (47.5 ppg) after their "slow start".
Defense: 1973 team, and it's not even close. They gave up two TDs and two FGs total in their first eight games, and of those only one TD in a five-game stretch. I'll say that again: The defense gave up a single score in a five-game stretch. In their final two regular seasons games, they gave up 13 to Iowa and 10 to Michigan. For the regular season--10 games--they surrendered a grand total of 43 points. They did give up 21 to USC in the Rose Bowl, but their offense scored 42 points.
Defense: 1973 team, and it's not even close. They gave up two TDs and two FGs total in their first eight games, and of those only one TD in a five-game stretch. I'll say that again: The defense gave up a single score in a five-game stretch. In their final two regular seasons games, they gave up 13 to Iowa and 10 to Michigan. For the regular season--10 games--they surrendered a grand total of 43 points. They did give up 21 to USC in the Rose Bowl, but their offense scored 42 points.
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