2012 feels like it was forever ago as both Notre Dame and Ohio State fans remember the campaign well. Notre Dame ran the table during the regular season, going 12-0 and earning a spot in the BCS national championship game that ended horribly against mighty Alabama.
Ohio State also went 12-0 that regular season, their first under [autotag]Urban Meyer[/autotag], but were banned from playing in the postseason. Since the start of that year the Buckeyes have hosted 67 games at Ohio Stadium and lost just three.
10 seasons have now passed since that 2012 campaign and both Notre Dame and Ohio State have seen assistants replace their then-head coaches, but in that stretch the Buckeyes have managed to lose just three games on their home turf.
I can’t reiterate that enough.
Ten years and three home losses.
In case you were wondering it took Charlie Weis just eight home contests to lose three times at Notre Dame Stadium and it took Brian Kelly just six tries to lose three home games during his first season as head coach.
So back to Ohio State – who were those three games against, what did they have in common with what Notre Dame has in store, and how big of upsets were each of them?
Ohio State has gone an absurd 64-3 at home since the start of the 2012 season, just to further emphasize that.
Here is a deeper look at those three.