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OrangeAfroMan

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Best tOSU team since '57
« on: March 26, 2022, 02:33:36 PM »
What say you?
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2022, 02:38:11 PM »
68 was a good year
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2022, 05:13:01 PM »
Oddly, IMHO all of the best tOSU teams have NOT won the NC while some of the NC's weren't actually all that good. 

1968 was a good team, went undefeated and won the NC but the team was mostly sophomores (first year eligible back then). Nearly the entire team returned as juniors for 1969 and again as seniors for 1970. Those two teams were easily better but each one lost their last game.

2014 was great by the end of the year but even at that I'd argue that 2015 was better. 

1973 was a great team but I think 1975 was better. The 1975 team lost the Rose Bowl (stadium and game) to a UCLA team that they had slaughtered earlier that season in the Rose Bowl (stadium not game).

1998 and 2019 were probably the two best I've seen.
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2022, 08:55:17 PM »
Not sure 1995 is the best, but it's better than some up there.  Maybe the defense was a little lacking?
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2022, 09:54:43 PM »
Or Cooper.
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2022, 09:56:19 PM »
Yes. OSU is a very disappointing team in that many of their best teams blew a singular game that cost them the whole season. 1979 is another. Undefeated, then stopped on the goal line at the end of the Rose Bowl. It takes a lot of luck to win the whole ball of wax. 2002 wasn't all that great of a team, but they were clutch and always found a way to win. 
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2022, 10:01:10 PM »
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2022, 11:08:24 PM »
Quote from: ELA on March 26, 2022, 08:55:17 PM
Not sure 1995 is the best, but it's better than some up there.  Maybe the defense was a little lacking?
I had to draw the line somewhere.  OSU has too many 1-loss seasons that were near-misses for the NC.
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2022, 09:22:05 AM »
Another way to view it is "most accomplished team", or most impressive team for the era.  I went for 1968, that is a solid list of accomplishments, and undefeated NC.

The best team if they played today would probably be the latest team on the list of course.  But that isn't what I was thinking.
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2022, 12:15:05 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 27, 2022, 09:22:05 AM

The best team if they played today would probably be the latest team on the list of course.  But that isn't what I was thinking.
Since this is the case, you can't look t it like the modern 320 lb OT is lining up against the 200 lb DE from the past.  You have to look at it like all players are rated 0-100 scale based on their play level vs their peers.  
So that modern 320 lb OT might be an 88-rated level player and that 200 lb DE from the past might be a 93 rated level player.  Relative quality/dominance vs peers is the way to go.
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2022, 12:31:28 PM »
their 2015 team that didn't win was the best one I've seen. That team was f***king loaded. Meyer forgot he had Zeke- the best RB in CFB. I want to say Zeke had 2-3 carries for the entire 2nd half of a very close ball game. Wasn't like they were getting blown out and had to abandon the run. Zeke was a workhorse, he was a guy that needed 25-30 carries a game and you can bet your ass one of them he was going to bust loose for a long gain. Didn't feed the workhorse enough. 
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2022, 12:56:29 PM »
Sat next to an older Buckeye fans last night at the bar

Older than me - around 70

I should have asked him

he had many questions about the Huskers and Scott Frost
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2022, 09:10:50 AM »
The 1998 team was one of the most dominant teams I had seen. Outside of the disaster of a game against MSU, they man handled everyone on the schedule. (The MSU game as the only game that season that I didn't get to watch as I was helping a realtive with a big project. I did listen to it on the radio, but I have never seen the entire game. Not sure I want to).
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Re: Best tOSU team since '57
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2022, 09:24:25 AM »
Some of the best teams in a lot of programs lost "that one game", which is an indicator of how tough it is to run the table.

Even if you play only 7 games that you could lose and have a 90% chance of winning each, your odds of losing are pretty high.

And that would be a dominant team.
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