New York Yankees pitcher Domingo German achieved baseball immortality last week by tossing just the 24th perfect game in Major League Baseball history. An extraordinarily rare feat, it was even more incomprehensible as German was coming off back-to-back starts in which he allowed a combined 15 earned runs and 15 hits over 5.1 innings. While the concept of a perfect game is typically reserved for baseball, German’s feat got me thinking about not just great offensive performances in Ohio State football history, but which of those truly transcended ‘great’ and could be argued as ‘perfect’ without any major pushback from fans. In baseball, the perfect game is well-defined – there can be no argument. It’s 27 up, 27 down. No baserunners allowed for any reason. Perfection. In football, the benchmark for offensive perfection is less clear but I’ll take a stab at it anyway. Note that I’ll only include games I saw with…
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