While it hasn’t been every season, Chris Holtmann’s Ohio State teams have really created a trend of starting the season hot, building high expectations, and then falling prey to the dreaded “January swoon.” In 2018, the Buckeyes started 12-1 and rose to 14th in the AP Poll before losing their next five games in January and falling out of the poll (and Big Ten contention) completely.
In 2019, they started the season 11-1 and flew all the way up to No. 2 in the country, before losing six of their next seven and falling out of the Top 25 and B1G contention yet again.