November 16, 2024

Evaluating and rating the 5 types of Ohio State football losses


COLUMBUS, Ohio — Great, everyone loves to talk about losses, right? Brilliant, captivating headline. Also, don’t panic, the reason for broaching this topic isn’t because the Ohio State coverage team is expecting the No. 3 Buckeyes to lose to No. 9 Indiana on Saturday. But the Ohio State players and coaches have made the case this week for why they respect the upstart 4-0 Hoosiers. That in itself is moderately unusual. The only teams in the Big Ten who traditionally garner that level of respect are Penn State, Michigan and Wisconsin, and it’s not always the case with those twos. So Indiana at the very least has Ohio State’s attention. But this is still an OSU football program that over the last nine seasons in 102-10. Still, for some reason, the two-hour-plus Thursday Buckeye Talk Podcast, which went wonderfully off the rails at times and included some really good rapid-fire…

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