Ohio State·Big Ten

2015 — The Top-10 Year

Ohio State finished 2015 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.

Record 12-1
Final result 12-win season Won the Fiesta Bowl
AP final #7 post-bowls
SP+ +13.5 last-week
Era The Meyer Reconstruction
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W @ Virg Tec 42-24 W vs Hawai'i 38-0 W vs Nort Ill 20-13 W vs West Mic 38-12 W @ Indiana 34-27 W vs Maryland 49-28 W vs Penn St 38-10 W @ Rutgers 49-7 W vs Minnes 28-14 W @ Illinois 28-3 L vs Mich St 14-17 W @ Michigan 42-13 W vs ND 44-28 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2015.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2015 season's largest margin: Ohio State 49, Rutgers 7. A 42-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Ohio State 14, Michigan State 17. A 3-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Ohio State beat Notre Dame 44-28 in the postseason.

"The standard is the standard."
— Ohio State fanbase voice · 2015· synthesized
What it meant

2015 is a middle chapter for Ohio State — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.