The rules of the game at the time were that two incompletions in the end zone resulted in a touchback. Francis Schmidt’s team had a chance to win late, but Nick Wasylike threw two incomplete passes into the end zone. Not only did the Buckeyes lose 7-2, but the game was played in a driving rain storm. Ohio State’s first trip to South Bend was one they’d like to forget. The setback would be Ohio State’s only loss in a 7-1 season that saw them win their first Big Ten title in 15 years. The rules at the time were that when a ball was fumbled out of bounds it was awarded to the team that touched the football last.

The Buckeyes saw their final shot at victory dashed when they fumbled out of bounds. The Fighting Irish took the lead when backup quarterback Bill Shakespeare found Wayne Millner for the game-winning touchdown. Ohio State took a 13-0 lead into the fourth quarter before Notre Dame engineered a shocking comeback, scoring three touchdowns over the game’s final 15 minutes. The game was the most covered sporting event of 1935. The game was the first “Game of the Century”, of which there would be nine more in the 20th century. The Buckeyes went 12-0, which would have at least put them in the Big Ten Championship Game, and had they beat Nebraska, they likely would have joined Notre Dame in the 2013 BCS National Championship Game in Miami.Ī good place to start is with the first meeting between the programs, which came in front of over 80,000 people in Columbus in 1935. There could have possibly been a seventh meeting between the schools, but Ohio State had imposed a bowl ban for the 2012 season after the fallout from “Tatgate”. Even though Columbus and South Bend are a little under 300 miles apart, Notre Dame and Ohio State have met on the football field just six times, with the last two matchups coming at the Fiesta Bowl.

preview.Two of college football’s most storied programs will meet under the lights of Ohio Stadium on September 3rd.

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