It’s no secret that the Ohio State football program has won at an alarming clip over the last decade. So much so that it has overtaken Michigan for the highest all-time winning percentage of current FBS programs as recognized by the NCAA.
And while the winning has been done on the road and at home, it is especially impressive what the Buckeyes have done on the banks of the Olentangy at Ohio Stadium. Perhaps better known as the Horseshoe, or the ‘Shoe for short, OSU has won a whopping 93.1 percent of its games since 2010, winning 67 and losing just five.
That’s tops in the country and just ahead of Alabama (92.9%), Clemson (92.8%), Boise State (89.1%), and Wisconsin (88.4%).
It may make you wonder who those five losses game to in the last ten years. Well, we can tell you that too. They came from Penn State and Michigan State in 2011, Virginia Tech in 2014, Michigan State in 2015, and Oklahoma in 2017.
Credit goes to @CFBONFOX for doing the research and sharing it for everyone in the graphic below.
No one's protected their home field in the last 10 years quite like @OhioStateFB ⭕️🙌 pic.twitter.com/kvX1Hz6yIq
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) March 26, 2020
Of course, playing in Columbus in front of 105,000 fans has something to do with it, but more than anything, it’s the teams that run out of the tunnel in central Ohio that make it even more imposing.
That looks to continue in 2020 as long as COVID-19 gets out of our lives.
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