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117-13 from 2012-2021

• 12-0 in 2012, 1.000
• 12-2 in 2013, 0.857
• 14-1 in 2014, 0.933
• 12-1 in 2015, 0.923
• 11-2 in 2016, 0.846
• 12-2 in 2017, 0.857
• 13-1 in 2018, 0.929
• 13-1 in 2019, 0.929
• 7-1 in 2020, 0.875
• 11-2 in 2021, 0.846
• 117-13 from 2012-2021, 0.900

In the rolling decade look used here, 2021's 11-2 replaces 2011's 6-7 so that five game improvement moved the Buckeyes up to exactly 0.900.  

I tracked this for all the traditional helmets and a few others back to the first AP Poll.  Ie, the first 10-year period that I have tracked is 1927-1936 and I tracked it for:

• tOSU
• USC
• OU
• TX
• ND
• M
• TN
• LSU
• Bama
• FSU
• PSU
• Clemson
• UF
• Miami, FL
• UNL

Those are sorted by their worst 10-year.  Ohio State is far-and-away #1 on that metric.  

It sucks when all-time great accomplishments are overshadowed by some other team (Bama) doing even better at the same time.  

To put this in perspective, in all of the 10-year periods from 1927-1936 through 2012-2021 here are all of the .900 decades:

• 0.9245, OU was 97-7-2 from 1948-1957
• 0.9245, OU was 97-7-2 from 1949-1958
• 0.9143, Bama will be 128-12 from 2012-2021 if they beat UGA
• 0.9130, Bama was 126-12 from 2011-2020
• 0.9095, OU was 94-8-3 from 1947-1956
• 0.9071, Bama was 127-13 from 2009-2018
• 0.9071, Bama will be 127-13 from 2012-2021 if they lose to UGA
• 0.9000, tOSU was 117-13 from 2012-2021

Either/or, obviously.  

The odd thing about this is yet another entry in the category of Ohio State's consistency.  The Buckeyes somehow managed to pull off a .900 decade without winning multiple NC's.  By contrast:

• OU won three between 1948 and 1957 (50, 55, 56).  
• OU won three between 1949 and 1958 (50, 55, 56).  
• Bama will have won five between 2012 and 2021 if they beat UGA (12, 15, 17, 20, 21).  
• Bama won five between 2011 and 2020 (11, 12, 15, 17, 20).  
• OU won three between 1947 and 1956 (50, 55, 56).  
• Bama won five between 2009 and 2018 (09, 11, 12, 15, 17).  
• Bama will have won four between 2012 and 2021 if they lose to UGA (12, 15, 17, 20).  
• tOSU won one between 2012 and 2021 (14).  

and Purdue!

Wow, I thought it was a harmless joke.  

It is impressive to me.

Serious question: is there a "block that asshole" button?

There is the ability to block specific posters if you don't want to read their posts.

I think it better just to have the discipline to ignore them.

Bama is definitely the GOAT, but OSU is the clearcut second GOAT.

this is so hard to define. bama's decade run with the titles is probably the greatest ever, but i can't deny i'm jealous every time i look at the consistency of tosu. it's truly remarkable how they almost never have a bad season.

bama with potentially it's best ever, or 3rd best ever, and did so with both tosu and clemson having their best ever. imagine the decade for any of them if the other 2 had been just meh.

good info @medinabuckeye1

Thank you and this is an interesting point.  Nearly all of Bama, Clemson, and tOSU's CFP losses are to each other with the only exception being Clemson's loss to LSU in the 2019CG:

• Bama lost to tOSU in 2014 semi-final
• Clemson lost to Bama in 2015 CG
• tOSU lost to Clemson in 2016 semi-final
• Bama lost to Clemson in 2016 CG
• Clemson lost to Bama in 2017 semi-final
• Bama lost to Clemson in 2018 CG
• tOSU lost to Clemson in 2019 semi-final
• tOSU lost to Bama in 2020 CG

You make a good point.  If you take away the other two, the one remaining, wow!

this is so hard to define. bama's decade run with the titles is probably the greatest ever, but i can't deny i'm jealous every time i look at the consistency of tosu. it's truly remarkable how they almost never have a bad season.

Ohio State has bad seasons, they just haven't strung them together.  That said, your jealously is mutual.  While I do revel in the fact that tOSU hasn't had a bad decade in more than a century it is frustrating to be perennially thisclose to a monster multiple NC decade such as Bama and Oklahoma have enjoyed. 

If it posts right I'll attach the rolling 10-year winning percentages for Bama and tOSU.  Bama's troughs are MUCH worse than tOSU's.  Ohio State's worst decade from 1927-1936 through 2012-2021 is that they went 54-30-7 or .6319 from 1943-1952.  Bama has two major down periods much worse than that including being sub .500 as recently as 1998-2007 (49-54 or .4757). 

The flip side, of course, is that Bama's peaks are also MUCH higher.  In addition to their current peak being higher than tOSU's best ever, they also have a peak just shy of .900 for the '70's (107-13 or .8917 for 1971-1980), another peak over .85 for 1959-1968 and yet another in the '30's.