Ohio State won the national championship in 1942 with a young and talented team. Typically that's the recipe for another run at a championship. 1943 was anything but typical, though.
Only five players, including a mere one starter from the '42 team, returned for the 1943 season, Paul Brown's third in Columbus as the head coach of the Buckeyes.
Tackle Bill Willis, was lone returning starter and he was on the roster because he was denied entrance into the military because of surgery he had on his varicose veins.