1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team information
American college football season
1970Ohio State Buckeyes football
NFF co-national champion Big Ten champion
Rose Bowl, L 17–27 vs. Stanford
Conference
Big Ten Conference
Ranking
Coaches
No. 2
AP
No. 5
Record
9–1 (7–0 Big Ten)
Head coach
Woody Hayes (20th season)
Offensive scheme
Heavy run
Base defense
5–2
MVP
Jim Stillwagon
Captains
Doug Adams
Rex Kern
Jim Stillwagon
Jan White
Home stadium
Ohio Stadium
Seasons
← 1969
1971 →
1970 Big Ten Conference football standings
v
t
e
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
No. 5 Ohio State $
7
–
0
–
0
9
–
1
–
0
No. 9 Michigan
6
–
1
–
0
9
–
1
–
0
Northwestern
6
–
1
–
0
6
–
4
–
0
Iowa
3
–
3
–
1
3
–
6
–
1
Wisconsin
3
–
4
–
0
4
–
5
–
1
Michigan State
3
–
4
–
0
4
–
6
–
0
Minnesota
2
–
4
–
1
3
–
6
–
1
Purdue
2
–
5
–
0
4
–
6
–
0
Illinois
1
–
6
–
0
3
–
7
–
0
Indiana
1
–
6
–
0
1
–
9
–
0
$ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
The 1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the Big Ten Conference during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Buckeyes won all nine games in the regular season and were ranked second in both major polls. Ohio State won the Big Ten title and a berth in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on New Year's Day against the Stanford Indians, ranked No. 12 and champions of the Pac-8. The Buckeyes were upset, 27–17, and finished with a 9–1 record.
This was the last year Ohio State played a nine-game regular-season schedule (the Big Ten first allowed a 10th regular season game in 1965). Many major colleges added an eleventh game in 1970, although no Big Ten school did so until the following season.
The Buckeyes were recognized as co-national champions, along with Texas, by the National Football Foundation at the end of the regular season. The teams were jointly awarded the MacArthur Bowl.[1]
This was the fifth and last national title that head coach Woody Hayes won for the Buckeyes; they did not win another national championship until 2002.
Both Ohio State and Texas would go on to lose their bowl games; the 11–0–1 Nebraska Cornhuskers won the AP national championship when they finished No. 1 in final post-bowl AP Poll.
^"MacArthur Winners". The News–Messenger. Fremont, Ohio. December 9, 1970. Retrieved November 1, 2022. Ohio State football Coach Woody Hayes and Texas coach Darrell Royal accept the MacArthur Bowl which was awarded jointly to their teams as the best of 1970 at the award dinner of the National Football Foundation
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