As we count down the rich and storied history of Ohio State football, we look back at the 1926 Buckeyes, Ohio Stadium was entering its fifth season of use and for the first time in the stadium's short history the Buckeyes started a season with a winning record in the 'Shoe.
Ohio State head coach John Wilce had snapped his program's streak of three-straight losing seasons in 1925, if just barely, as his Buckeyes finished 4–3–1 that season.
As his team entered the 1926 season, they'd need to do much better than that, both to quiet his critics and to prove the colossal Ohio Stadium, opened in 1922, wasn't the boondoggle some in Central Ohio were saying it was.