A bowl bid is supposed to be a celebration of a fine football season.
While it has certainly been that at times for Ohio State, too often
in recent years good will generated by a strong regular season has
been reduced to ugly disappointment after a number of poor postseason
performances.
The Buckeyes have compiled a 15-19 bowl record, including a 3-9
mark in their past 12 appearances. Ohio State has been to the Rose
Bowl 13 of those 34 trips, going 6-7 in Pasadena.
A number of great Ohio State teams didn’t appear in bowl games.
Until after the 1975 season, only a single Big Ten team was allowed
to play in a bowl game — the champion in the Rose Bowl.
Here is a closer at each bowl game in program history.
