Ohio State deserved the title shot against Tennessee in the Fiesta Bowl that year - they were by far the best of the one-loss teams. Back then all that mattered was when you lost instead of the circumstances of the loss. Florida State had the worst loss of all the one-loss teams but it came in September as opposed to November/December like OSU, KSU and UCLA and that's all that mattered in those days.
If you really look it at…the 2002-2003 Buckeyes teams had distinct advantages at literally every position over the 1998 Buckeyes. Definitely an edge along the offensive and defensive lines plus a very big edge in wide receiver talent with Jenkins and Holmes. The 2002-2003 Ohio State defenses were constantly pressuring opposing quarterbacks, so it would have been a big question mark how those late 90’s Buckeye teams would have been able to move the ball on offense
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I was down at the shoe that dark day. i remember the MSU fans faces before the game looking like their team was about to be pushed into a pool full of piranhas...how in the hell did the rabbit lose to the tortoise? still baffled.
@@robertreynolds6586 It was in January. I remember watching the shitty livestream from my computer in my barracks room in Japan during the morning. One of the only times in the Saban era where I can honestly say Alabama lost to a simply superior team.
Would love to have seen Kansas State play each other in the BCS in 1998. Would have been a lot more compelling than this game...the two best teams NOT playing for the National Championship.
Joe Germaine was awesome nice zip and great accuracy a tough kid and clutch performer in both bowl games he played in his toss to David Boston in Rose Bowl is etched in my all time favorite memories Buckeye games Antoine Winfield the toughest corner of all time hit like a linebacker imagine if he was like 6'2 215 he would have murdered dudes he was 5'9 180 dripping wet
If the playoff would have been available back then, it would have been interesting how many championships Ohio State could have won. 1995. 1996 and 1998 were three teams that were capable.
No team on this earth was beating Nebraska in 95, and 96 Florida lost only one game - the same FSU team they embarrassed in a rematch for the natty. It would have been cool to see OSU go up against Tennessee's defense in 98, but they shouldn't have lost to MSU if they wanted that shot. Woulda, coulda, shoulda...
@@garyd2553 Ohio State beat Arizona State in Rose Bowl in 96 season keeping Sun Devils from winning Natty.Buckeyes could have been Voted No.1 by Sportswriters after Bowls.
I am a Michigan fan and I definitely agree you all were the best team in the country in both 98' and 15'. No team in College Football had the talent you all had in 15'. Zeke and Joey Bosa on the same roster? That's crazy. I also remember you all dominated everyone in 98' aside from the MSU loss. If BCS had selected you all to play Tennessee instead of selecting Florida State you all would have won. I'm no fan of Ohio State but gotta tell it like it is!
Even tho UCLA was my team growing up and even till this day, I rooted for OSU over Michigan as a kid. So I remember that 98 OSU team very well. One of the most talented teams I'd ever seen. That team was w/out question the best team in CF that year. I truly believe they could have beaten MSU 99 times if they played 100, but that one game in Columbus, in a game they were up 15 in, was what cost them a national title. There problem was not beating UM during that mid to late 90's stretch, and in the year they finally did, it was the other Big 10 squad from Michigan that beats them.
Do you have the, Ohio State vs. Minnesota game 1995 Ohio State vs. Purdue 1994 Ohio State vs. Purdue 1996 Ohio State vs. Akron 2001 Ohio State vs. Ucla 2001 Ohio State vs. Indiana 1997 Ohio State vs. Michigan State 1997 Ohio State vs. Iowa 1996 Ohio State vs. Minnesota 1996 Ohio State vs. Illinois 1996 Ohio State vs. Illinois 2005 Sorry I requested so much, I am a big fan of your channel. I love all of your games you post all the time. It’s nice to see the buckeyes play and have blowouts. I subscribed to you as well. I just figured out your channel this week and I already love it.
Some of these are probably long shots...but any chance that you have some of the following: 2000 @ Wisconsin 2001 Northwestern 2003 Michigan State 2006 @ Iowa 2007 @ Penn State 2009 Iowa
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Love/hate feelings about this game. Up 24-7 at halftime and win 24-10? Wtf. Cooper let the O go to sleep in the second half, which is what cost us a NC that year. Coaches that win NCs, like Urban Meyer, keep challenging a team to perform even when you're up by 20+ points, and the loss to MSU that year is why. You can't take your foot off the gas against good teams... anyway, so watching Germaine, Boston, Miller, Lumpkin, Katzenmoyer, Moore, and Winfield finish their last game by playing the same way, weirdly actually kind of upsetting. I can't watch the 2nd half of this game. This team should have won the NT that year.
it's not like the aggies were sisters of the poor high school. a&m won the big 12 in '98. lol. but no doubt that group was talented. plummer, berry, diggs all played on sundays as well, wiley, a young jon wells, and one of my fave all-time buckeyes, joe montgomery, at rb. as i mentioned on an earlier post, down thru the years sparty has spoiled many a perfect season for tosu.
@@jamesmarkscott6202 A&M had some good players that year (Dat Nguyen, Ja'Mar Toombs would go on to be fan favorite), but the point is OSU jumped out in front and then went to sleep in the 2nd half. "Down through the years" Sparty has mostly been irrelevant--"No, Sparty, No" was a meme for quite awhile and our all-time record is 34-15--so that '98 MSU win really stands out. I guess 2015 counts also. But usually it's TSUN or Purdue ruining things, although in the history of the B1g every team has upset tOSU somewhere at least once (Iowa and Purdue most recently, but Minnesota in 2000 pops to mind, even lowly Indiana in 1988. But of course Rutgers and Maryland don't count, since they are relative newbs)
Was at that game! What a disappointment! Held scoreless in the second half. Not one of Germaine’s best games. Kept trying to force it to Boston who was well covered the entire night!
@@fiesta061000 yeah.On paper Buckeyes should have won Natty in 06 and 07 yet lost title games to teams 🤔 experts said didn't deserve to be there. Kind of like Buckeyes in 14 Playoffs
That drive in the 3rd for A&M hahahahah ....jesus they called 5 penalties on Ohio state. Which 3 of them were literally laughable. The southern accent driven REFS did everything they could to keep A&M in the game. Jesus. If this game was played 20 years later. Those refs would never call another game.
That BCS on ABC theme is a thing of beauty.
💯💯💯
If 20th Century ABC college football music doesn't get you excited the sport isn't for you
it's saddening these days are long gone
Ohio State deserved the title shot against Tennessee in the Fiesta Bowl that year - they were by far the best of the one-loss teams. Back then all that mattered was when you lost instead of the circumstances of the loss. Florida State had the worst loss of all the one-loss teams but it came in September as opposed to November/December like OSU, KSU and UCLA and that's all that mattered in those days.
its still the same thing though, when you lose matters just as much as who you lose to. losses in sept aren't nearly as brutal as losses in November.
@@a_coleman11 unless you are Alabama
1996 and 1998 Ohio State were Cooper’s best teams
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This Ohio State team would have gotten smoked against either the 2002 or 2003 Buckeye teams
@@alexkain8564 nope 👎
If you really look it at…the 2002-2003 Buckeyes teams had distinct advantages at literally every position over the 1998 Buckeyes. Definitely an edge along the offensive and defensive lines plus a very big edge in wide receiver talent with Jenkins and Holmes. The 2002-2003 Ohio State defenses were constantly pressuring opposing quarterbacks, so it would have been a big question mark how those late 90’s Buckeye teams would have been able to move the ball on offense
@@alexkain8564 I have thought about it kid and you’re dead wrong. Smoked? That’s cute. 😚 Boston > Jenkins any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I don't have Illinois, NWestern or Indiana games from the 98 season. Will post eventually if they become available
Came back to relive this game and didnt realize Daunte Hall was A&M RB.
Lions head coach Dan Campbell at TE also
Still kills me knowing they were up 24-9 against MSU then lose by 4.
We still don't talk about it. The game you speak of does not exist to me
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I was down at the shoe that dark day. i remember the MSU fans faces before the game looking like their team was about to be pushed into a pool full of piranhas...how in the hell did the rabbit lose to the tortoise? still baffled.
Two words - John Cooper
1998 K-State would have beaten 1998 Ohio State
I love the Buckeyes. 2014 when they beat Alabama for the championship.
Technically it was Oregon
Technically, Ohio State beat Alabama in the 2014 season at the Sugar Bowl. The game was played in February 2015. But it was for the 2014 season.
@@robertreynolds6586 It was in January. I remember watching the shitty livestream from my computer in my barracks room in Japan during the morning.
One of the only times in the Saban era where I can honestly say Alabama lost to a simply superior team.
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@@tideatmilehigh2727 It was New Year's Day.How great it was to see Buckeyes beat the Tide. A Bowl win over an SEC Power was something to savor.
Would love to have seen Kansas State play each other in the BCS in 1998. Would have been a lot more compelling than this game...the two best teams NOT playing for the National Championship.
correct..Florida State backed into the 1998 BCS Championship..Ohio State should've gotten in there..
Joe Germaine was awesome nice zip and great accuracy a tough kid and clutch performer in both bowl games he played in his toss to David Boston in Rose Bowl is etched in my all time favorite memories Buckeye games Antoine Winfield the toughest corner of all time hit like a linebacker imagine if he was like 6'2 215 he would have murdered dudes he was 5'9 180 dripping wet
If the playoff would have been available back then, it would have been interesting how many championships Ohio State could have won. 1995. 1996 and 1998 were three teams that were capable.
1995 and 1996 teams couldn’t even get past Michigan! How would they have made the playoffs?
@@garyd2553 Because they were one loss teams you dolt.
@@garyd2553 Are you dumb? Alabama and UGA got 1 losses and still get in. FOH!
No team on this earth was beating Nebraska in 95, and 96 Florida lost only one game - the same FSU team they embarrassed in a rematch for the natty. It would have been cool to see OSU go up against Tennessee's defense in 98, but they shouldn't have lost to MSU if they wanted that shot. Woulda, coulda, shoulda...
@@garyd2553 Ohio State beat Arizona State in Rose Bowl in 96 season keeping Sun Devils from winning Natty.Buckeyes could have been Voted No.1 by Sportswriters after Bowls.
Best team in the country that year. '98, '06, and '15 just kill me.
I am a Michigan fan and I definitely agree you all were the best team in the country in both 98' and 15'. No team in College Football had the talent you all had in 15'. Zeke and Joey Bosa on the same roster? That's crazy. I also remember you all dominated everyone in 98' aside from the MSU loss. If BCS had selected you all to play Tennessee instead of selecting Florida State you all would have won. I'm no fan of Ohio State but gotta tell it like it is!
Definitely not the best team in 06. USC, Florida, say hello
2007 we were the best team but Todd Boeckman was a terrible quarterback and lost to LSU in a home game for them
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Add 2020 to that list
David Boston. Buckeyes legend.
The last time that A&M was in a BCS/New Year's Six bowl game until this past season (2021 Orange Bowl).
False, cotton bowl in 2012
@@johnnyfoosball12 cotton bowl wasn't a BCS/NY6 game at the time
Even tho UCLA was my team growing up and even till this day, I rooted for OSU over Michigan as a kid. So I remember that 98 OSU team very well. One of the most talented teams I'd ever seen. That team was w/out question the best team in CF that year. I truly believe they could have beaten MSU 99 times if they played 100, but that one game in Columbus, in a game they were up 15 in, was what cost them a national title. There problem was not beating UM during that mid to late 90's stretch, and in the year they finally did, it was the other Big 10 squad from Michigan that beats them.
18:25 the Big Kat
Do you have the,
Ohio State vs. Minnesota game 1995
Ohio State vs. Purdue 1994
Ohio State vs. Purdue 1996
Ohio State vs. Akron 2001
Ohio State vs. Ucla 2001
Ohio State vs. Indiana 1997
Ohio State vs. Michigan State 1997
Ohio State vs. Iowa 1996
Ohio State vs. Minnesota 1996
Ohio State vs. Illinois 1996
Ohio State vs. Illinois 2005
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This game is officially called "AND MONTGOMERY BREAKS FREE"!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't it????
The Buckeyes choice to blitz at the worst times reminds me of Don Brown’s D for ttun
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Some of these are probably long shots...but any chance that you have some of the following:
2000 @ Wisconsin
2001 Northwestern
2003 Michigan State
2006 @ Iowa
2007 @ Penn State
2009 Iowa
Unfortunately don't have '00 Wisky or '03 Sparty games... No huddle versions of the rest of them will be posted in the future
Time for Ohio State and Texas A&M to play this Century.Bucks are 3-0 against Aggies.
The 98 team was coopers best team beat Mich and won a big bowl !
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Love/hate feelings about this game. Up 24-7 at halftime and win 24-10? Wtf. Cooper let the O go to sleep in the second half, which is what cost us a NC that year. Coaches that win NCs, like Urban Meyer, keep challenging a team to perform even when you're up by 20+ points, and the loss to MSU that year is why. You can't take your foot off the gas against good teams... anyway, so watching Germaine, Boston, Miller, Lumpkin, Katzenmoyer, Moore, and Winfield finish their last game by playing the same way, weirdly actually kind of upsetting. I can't watch the 2nd half of this game. This team should have won the NT that year.
@Andy Gygi Agreed. Like I said, the second half is unwatchable
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Reminded me so much of the 2017 cotton bowl against USC
it's not like the aggies were sisters of the poor high school. a&m won the big 12 in '98. lol. but no doubt that group was talented. plummer, berry, diggs all played on sundays as well, wiley, a young jon wells, and one of my fave all-time buckeyes, joe montgomery, at rb. as i mentioned on an earlier post, down thru the years sparty has spoiled many a perfect season for tosu.
@@jamesmarkscott6202 A&M had some good players that year (Dat Nguyen, Ja'Mar Toombs would go on to be fan favorite), but the point is OSU jumped out in front and then went to sleep in the 2nd half. "Down through the years" Sparty has mostly been irrelevant--"No, Sparty, No" was a meme for quite awhile and our all-time record is 34-15--so that '98 MSU win really stands out. I guess 2015 counts also. But usually it's TSUN or Purdue ruining things, although in the history of the B1g every team has upset tOSU somewhere at least once (Iowa and Purdue most recently, but Minnesota in 2000 pops to mind, even lowly Indiana in 1988. But of course Rutgers and Maryland don't count, since they are relative newbs)
Aggies couldn't really do squat against OSU for 35 minutes. Refs jumped in to make it more competitive.
Brent musburger dan fouts jack arute
Was at that game!
What a disappointment!
Held scoreless in the second half.
Not one of Germaine’s best games.
Kept trying to force it to Boston who was well covered the entire night!
That team was loaded. Screwed out of an opportunity to play for the championship.
john coppers best win and teaqm he had
Glad I never have to listen to Brent Musberger ever again. His voice grades on me like nails on a chalkboard.
98 Buckeyes best team to not win National Championship?
correct..1998 team won their BCS game..2006 and 2007 got blasted in their BCS Championship games⁉🏈
@@fiesta061000 yeah.On paper Buckeyes should have won Natty in 06 and 07 yet lost title games to teams 🤔 experts said didn't deserve to be there. Kind of like Buckeyes in 14 Playoffs
3 tds in like 5 min in the 1st quarter..then 1 fg the rest of the game..go fig🤔
Coach Cooper - maybe OSU's dumbest coach ever - did the same thing against Iowa. They went up 56-0 in the first half. Final score: 56-35.
As usual.......A&M will Lose in the Big Games. Texas won in the Cotton Bowl against Mississippi State.
That drive in the 3rd for A&M hahahahah
....jesus they called 5 penalties on Ohio state. Which 3 of them were literally laughable. The southern accent driven REFS did everything they could to keep A&M in the game. Jesus. If this game was played 20 years later. Those refs would never call another game.
Imagine if these buckeye teams in the 90s had good to great quarterbacks. Joe Germain was awful