1998 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

NCAATeamFootballSeason
Year=1998
Team=Ohio State Buckeyes


Conference=Big Ten Conference
ShortConference=Big Ten
BCSRank=
CoachRank=2
APRank=2
Record=11-1
ConfRecord=7-1
HeadCoach=John Cooper
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StadiumArena=Ohio Stadium
Champion=Big Ten Champions
BowlTourney=1999 Sugar Bowl
BowlTourneyResult= W 24-14 Texas A&MThe 1998 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the college football season of 1998-1999. The team's head football coach was John Cooper. The Buckeyes played their home games in Ohio Stadium. The team finished the season with a win-loss record of 11 and 1, and a Big Ten Conference record of 7-1. They finished tri-champions in the Big Ten Conference with the Wisconsin Badgers and the Michigan Wolverines and played in one of the premiere Bowl Championship Series bowl games in the 1999 Sugar Bowl.

Led by senior quarterback Joe Germaine, the Buckeyes were the preseason number one throughout the majority of the season. The Buckeyes only loss came late in the season to the Michigan State Spartans. The team blew a late 15 point lead late in the game to fall short 28-24.

Because of the late loss, Ohio State was kept out of the National Championship Game, the 1999 Fiesta Bowl. Their regular season "miss" of not playing fellow tri-champion Wisconsin also cost the Bucks a trip to the 1999 Rose Bowl because Ohio State was the last to play in the Rose Bowl in 1997, Wisconsin last played in 1994. [cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_1998_Nov_16/ai_53256099 |title=Big Ten |accessdate=2008-06-12] While the Buckeyes politicked for a share of the national title, their poor second half performance in the second half of the Sugar Bowl and #1 Tennessee's victory over #2 Florida State in the Fiesta Bowl, forced the Bucks to settle for a number two finish in both polls. [cite web |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/1998/bowls/sugar/news/1999/01/01/sugar_bowl/ |title=A case for No. 1 |accessdate=2008-06-12]

chedule

CFB Schedule Entry
date = 09/05/1998
time =
w/l = w
nonconf = yes
homecoming =
away = y
neutral =
rank = 1
opponent = West Virginia
opprank = 11
site_stadium = Mountaineer Field
site_cityst = Morgantown, WV
gamename =
tv = CBS
score = 34-17
overtime =CFB Schedule Entry
date = 09/12/1998
time =
w/l = w
nonconf = yes
homecoming =
away =
neutral =
rank = 1
opponent = Toledo
opprank =
site_stadium = Ohio Stadium
site_cityst = Columbus, OH
gamename =
tv = ESPN
score = 49-0
overtime =CFB Schedule Entry
date = 09/19/1998
time =
w/l = w
nonconf = yes
homecoming =
away =
neutral =
rank = 1
opponent = Missouri
opprank = 21
site_stadium = Ohio Stadium
site_cityst = Columbus, Ohio|Columbus, OH
gamename =
tv = ABC
score = 35-14
overtime = CFB Schedule Entry
date = 10/03/1998
time =
w/l = w
nonconf =
homecoming =
away =
neutral =
rank = 1
opponent = Penn State
opprank = 7
site_stadium = Ohio Stadium
site_cityst = Columbus, Ohio|Columbus, OH
gamename =
tv = ABC
score = 28-9
overtime =CFB Schedule Entry
date = 10/10/1998
time =
w/l = w
nonconf =
homecoming =
away = y
neutral =
rank = 1
opponent = Illinois
opprank =
site_stadium = Memorial Stadium
site_cityst = Champaign, IL
gamename =
tv = ESPN
score = 41-0
overtime =CFB Schedule Entry
date = 10/17/1998
time =
w/l = w
nonconf =
homecoming =
away =
neutral =
rank = 1
opponent = Minnesota
opprank =
site_stadium = Ohio Stadium
site_cityst = Columbus, Ohio|Columbus, OH
gamename =
tv = ESPN
score = 45-15
overtime =CFB Schedule Entry
date = 10/24/1998
time =
w/l = w
nonconf =
homecoming =
away = y
neutral =
rank = 1
opponent = Northwestern
opprank =
site_stadium = Ryan Field
site_cityst = Evanston, IL
gamename =
tv = ESPN 2
score = 36-10
overtime =CFB Schedule Entry
date = 10/31/1998
time =
w/l = w
nonconf =
homecoming =
away = yes
neutral =
rank = 1
opponent = Indiana
opprank =
site_stadium = Memorial Stadium
site_cityst = Bloomington, IN
gamename =
tv = ABC
score = 38-7
overtime =CFB Schedule Entry
date = 11/07/1998
time =
w/l = l
nonconf =
homecoming =
away =
neutral =
rank = 1
opponent = Michigan State
opprank =
site_stadium = Ohio Stadium
site_cityst = Columbus, Ohio|Columbus, OH
gamename =
tv = ABC
score = 24-28
overtime =CFB Schedule Entry
date = 11/14/1998
time =
w/l = w
nonconf =
homecoming =
away = y
neutral =
rank = 7
opponent = Iowa
opprank =
site_stadium = Kinnick Stadium
site_cityst = Iowa City, IA
gamename =
tv = ABC
score = 45-14
overtime =CFB Schedule Entry
date = 11/21/1998
time =
w/l = w
nonconf =
homecoming =
away =
neutral =
rank = 7
opponent = Michigan
opprank = 11
site_stadium = Ohio Stadium
site_cityst = Columbus, Ohio|Columbus, OH
gamename =
tv = ABC
score = 31-16
overtime = CFB Schedule Entry
date = 01/01/1999
time =
w/l = w
nonconf = yes
homecoming =
away =
neutral = yes
rank = 3
opponent = Texas A&M
opprank = 8
site_stadium = Louisiana Superdome
site_cityst = New Orleans, LA
gamename = 1999 Sugar Bowl
tv = ABC
score = 24-14
overtime =

Game notes

West Virginia

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Toledo

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Missouri

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Penn State

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Illinois

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Minnesota

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Northwestern

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Indiana

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Michigan State

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Iowa

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Michigan

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Texas A&M

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