1998 #1 Ohio State @ #11 West Virginia No Huddle

[@IngeniousPlagiarist]

Interesting fact about this game: it was one of the very first games to be broadcast in HD. Would love to see that footage if it's out there somewhere.

[@loufancelli1330]

Wow I hadn't heard that. Interesting considering there weren't many flat screen TVs around yet. I do remember that an OSU basketball game was one of the first televised in HD and it threw me for a loop, it almost looked 3D!

[@jeffwhisenhunt929]

Ive always loved the intros especially for college sports.

[@GBU61]

Ohio State could have won at least a few national titles in the 90s. This team definitely should have. Cooper was an incredible recruiter but always seemed to lose a game that was a head scratcher.

[@nathaniellathy6559]

96 team should have been voted No. 1 after beating Arizona State in Rose 🌹 🥣

[@lukehartnett2352]

Ohio State's helmets always look so unusual early season.

[@buckeyevinnie8456]

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[@rshelley7496]

Ikr...no buckeye stickers yet...those are the best helmets though when there is a helmet full of those stickers

[@Gearjammer5150]

Emblematic of that 98 team. Lots of boneheaded mistakes, fumbles, miscommunication and still dominated a very good WVA team on the road. All of that would come back to bite them against MSU.

[@nospam3327]

Great game. Hard to believe how talented that '98 squad was. Coulda shoulda woulda, if only Cooper didn't let them slack off in the 2nd half of so many games, then they wouldn't have dropped the ball against MSU Watching this again, Dee Miller was such an under-appreciated WR at tOSU. Boston (deservedly) gets all the attention, but Miller made some great catches that season.

[@buckeyevinnie8456]

So true very talented should of won the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!! Checkout my youtube channel show BUCKEYE VINNIE, please watch my vids and sub to my channel thanks GO BUCKEYES !!!

[@loufancelli1330]

That was the best CFB team I have ever seen, they won all their games by 2+ scores, and even the game they somehow managed to lose they were up 24-9 in the 3Q about to get the ball back on the short side of the field for another score and routine beatdown. Still can't believe that game got away from them. Had they gotten into the title game they would have destroyed Tennessee. Coop might have even bought himself that extra year he wanted to get to 200 wins.

[@jamesmarkscott6202]

@@loufancelli1330 lou, that might have been the most bizarre loss in tosu history. 5 turnovers, 3 in the 2nd half directly leading to sparty points. seemed like msu had possession of the ball the entire 3rd qtr (11:00 to just 4:00 for the bucks). offense finally wakes up in the 4th, a long drive but joe montgomery gets stuffed on 4th down on the 25. we get the ball back under 2:00 left, 2 big passes put the ball on the 15, then 3 straight misses and a pick ends the game. we walked out of the shoe that night like we were leaving a funeral. incredibly talented team that had 1 bad game leading to a 4 pt loss. i think we would have beaten the vols, but i know ohio state deserved to be in that title game more than florida state, who lost to n.c. state 24-7 that season.

[@loufancelli1330]

@@jamesmarkscott6202 I have to agree with you. That was the most bizarre loss I've ever witnessed in person, and it did feel like a funeral walking out the stadium that night.

[@bradsmith9118]

@@loufancelli1330 More so than 2015? Another coulda woulda shoulda with talent everywhere. To think Joe Burrow, Cardale, and Dwayne were all watching from the bench as JT missed Braxton and Michael Thomas open all day, while Zeke just ate bon bons as JT ran for negative 2 yards.

[@hankearl9784]

Love a Buckeyes win. No matter the year.

[@umbrella0326]

I always loved Germaine's release. Even when firing it downfield, he looked like he was just flicking it. Pretty cool.

[@nospam3327]

I counted 3 drops on one possession... i wonder what his numbers would have looked like if he had been the full time starter in ('97) like he should have been and maybe a few less drops. He was the best drop-back QB ever at Ohio State, at least until Haskins

[@scottramey2818]

Wish WVU was in the Big10 instead of Rutgers. Imagine the rivalry possibilities with Maryland, Meatchicken, Penn State and OSU. GO BUCKS

[@brandonchilds9160]

Wow Ohio St on CBS

[@loufancelli1330]

Used to be commonplace. When I was a kid in the '80s pretty much all the televised OSU games were on CBS. And not every game was televised back then.

[@pronkb000]

CBS had Big Ten/Pac-10 rights in 1985 and '86, then switched to the CFA (basically all the other major teams besides those two conferences). OSU appeared on CBS a few other times as the visiting team (the LSU game in '87). CBS lost college football rights after the 1990 season, and got them back in 1996. From 1996-2000 they had both the SEC and Big East, which is where West Virginia was at the time.

[@redfox_84]

CBS had rights to show Big East games back then, which was WVs conference in 98

[@richardpavlik5585]

Most of the freshmen on this team won a national title in 2002.

[@buckeyevinnie8456]

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[@nathaniellathy6559]

West Virginia hasn't beaten Ohio State 😳 since 1897.

[@mcshow8121]

Stupid statistic. They’ve only played a handful of times

[@nathaniellathy6559]

@@mcshow8121 hard to find many seasons the last 70 years where West Virginia would have beaten Ohio State. I was at 87 game and Buckeyes won without playing well

[@chefbrad73]

Was at this game with a fraternity brother. WVU fans were nice but very dilutional. Spoke more smack until we were up 17-3 and then they got very very quiet. I kept asking why are quitting on your team. Got no response from them.

[@ericbarth547]

Buckeyes and the Mountaineers need to play again in Football.

[@Iron-sy4yp]

Eric Barth I agree

[@chefbrad73]

It wouldn't be much of a game. The Ohio State Buckeyes do not play intramural football.

[@ericbarth5334]

Bradley Arthur Ohio State has higher rated players than WV, that’s true. I still think it would be a good game, especially in Morgantown.

[@chefbrad73]

@Mathew Bryant when was the last time wvu played for a national title?... oh yea I forgot they are in national title contention year after year after year and then the kickoff happens and reality sets in

[@buckeyevinnie8456]

I have always said that my bro!!! Checkout my youtube channel show BUCKEYE VINNIE, please watch my videos and sub to my channel thanks Eric.

[@KeyserTheRedBeard]

magnificent video SteelBuck 6. I crushed the thumbs up on your video. Always keep up the exceptional work.

[@nathaniellathy6559]

98 Buckeyes were 👏🙀. Hard to believe they didn't win Natty.Keith Jackson said in a Playoff he'd take Buckeyes against anyone 🤔

[@jordanhutton5787]

The bettors in Vegas agreed!!

[@nathaniellathy6559]

@@jordanhutton5787 Michigan State had other 💡.

[@mglmill5082]

Ohio State on CBS!

[@jake76oh]

Coopers best team the 98 squad !!!

[@buckeyevinnie8456]

Totally agree with you brother!! Checkout my youtube channel show BUCKEYE VINNIE, please watch my videos and sub to my channel thanks. GO BUCKEYES !!!

[@jake76oh]

@Andy Gygi96 team didnt beat Xich so i cant give them the nod on that year

[@jake76oh]

@Andy Gygi true they beat xich in 98 and also a top 10 team texas a@m in the sugar bowl to finish 11-1 i just think that was his best year !! Go Bucks

[@jake76oh]

@Andy Gygi agree

[@jamilabdur-rashid3801]

We definitely shuda won it this year.

[@progamerpc6992]

Wow I remember this game like it was yesterday. If only we had fallen on 1 or 2 of those 4 OSU fumbles. Could have been a nail biter.

[@JH-ii4xi]

Was at this game. OSU was just better a better team. I wish we would have recovered the 2nd half kickoff. Might have changed the outcome. Oh well. At least we can watch old videos to help us get thru covid.

[@timothycampbell9501]

Cooper was a good coach but failures against ttun cost him his job.

[@chuckcollins2349]

Cooper was a great recruiter but an average coach.

[@Fresh-tw7ev]

Was this Beanie Wells first game???

[@JackycClark]

Johnathan Wells

[@Fresh-tw7ev]

@@JackycClark what

[@brandonconforto315]

Beanie Wells was still in elementary school in 1998

[@darrellschmitz4145]

All those guys with their shirt tails out. You'd never see Woody's players like that. He was strict about that.

[@buckeyevinnie8456]

Woody was the man!!! Checkout my youtube channel show BUCKEYE VINNIE, please watch my vids and sub to my channel thanks GO BUCKS!!!

[@christiancharles309]

Go Bucks

[@christiancharles309]

Buckeyes beat West Virginia in football and basketball

[@jayboggs7029]

Lol um you better check your history 😂😜😜😜😜😂😜

@@jayboggs7029 I know they beat us in basketball this year but Buckeyes have beaten them before.

@Mathew Bryant shut the fuck up idiot

@Mathew Bryant U can't play with the big boys Bitch

@Mathew Bryant U scared Bitch

[@johnwaffleh2p70]

WVU got robbed in this game

[@johnwaffleh2p70]

Andy Gygi No we got robbed in this game we should’ve won in fact we should’ve got to a BCS bowl that year In stead we get a garbage season became of mediocre coaching and mediocre administration which we have RIGHT NOW

[@RM-ed1if]

@Andy Gygi The margin was 17 points, not 24. Final was 34-17.

[@anonanon8794]

@@johnwaffleh2p70 Ohio State imposed their will the entire game. What do you mean you got robbed?? WV Scored early by luck and then scored again late in the game after Ohio State took their foot off the gas.

[@anonanon8794]

@@RM-ed1if Pretty much was a 24 pt margin. WV scored with only a few minutes left in the game after Ohio State took their foot off the gas and put in the backups. That last td doesn't even really matter or mean anything its not indicative of how the game actually went. 34-10 with 2 minutes left in the game. It was already over lol.