![]() Under Tressel, Ohio State won seven Big Ten championships and appeared in eight Bowl Championship Series (BCS) games, winning five of them. Jim Tressel was hired as head coach in 2001 and led Ohio State to its seventh national championship in 2002. Following Hayes' dismissal in 1978, Earle Bruce won 4 Big Ten titles (1979, 1981, 1984, 1986) and later John Cooper coached the team to 3 conference championships (1993, 1996, 1998). Additionally, his Buckeye teams captured 13 Big Ten conference championships, and eight Rose Bowl appearances. Under Hayes, Ohio State won over 200 games, were selected five times as national champions, from various pollsters, including three ( 1954, 1957, 1968) from major wire-service: AP Poll and Coaches' Poll. Following World War II, Ohio State saw sparse success on the football field with three separate coaches and in 1951 hired Woody Hayes to coach the team. Ohio State won their first national championship in 1942 under head coach Paul Brown. The Buckeyes won two conference championships while members of the OAC and in 1912 became members of the Big Ten Conference. The team was a football independent from 1890 to 1901 before joining the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) as a charter member in 1902. The first Ohio State game was a 20–14 victory over Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, on May 3, 1890. Seven players have received the Heisman Trophy (second all-time), with the program holding the distinction of having the only two-time winner of the award. The Buckeyes are recognized by the university and NCAA as having won eight national championships along with 41 conference championships (including 39 Big Ten titles), 10 division championships, 10 undefeated seasons, and six perfect seasons (no losses or ties). Ohio State has played their home games at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio since 1922. The Ohio State Buckeyes football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing Ohio State University in the East Division of the Big Ten Conference. Seventy-eight players are on the Hall of Fame ballot for FBS players, including Bismarck native Greg Eslinger, a former Gophers center Minneapolis native Larry Fitzgerald, a former Pittsburgh receiver, and Wayzata (MN) native James Lauriniaitis, a former Ohio State linebacker. He played for the Vikings from 1999 to 2011.Īlso on the ballot: Former guard Ron Hausauer, who played at Jamestown from from 1978 to 1981. The Vikings chose Kleinsasser 44 th in the 1999 NFL Draft. ![]() He had 88 career receptions for 1,309 yards and 10 touchdowns and was voted a First Team All-American five times. Kleinsasser played at UND from 1995 to 1998. K leinsasser is among 101 players on the divisional ballot that includes players from F-C-S, along with N-C-A-A Divisions two and three, as well as the N-A-I-A. Former UND tight end Jim Kleinsasser is on the 2024 ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame. ![]()
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