2016 Season 2016

Record 11-2
Final Result CFP Appearance
AP Final #2 post-bowls
SP+ +9.4 last-week
Era The Meyer Reconstruction
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
W vs Bowl Gre 77-10 W vs Tulsa 48-3 W @ Okla 45-24 W vs Rutgers 58-0 W vs Indiana 38-17 W @ Wiscon 30-23 L @ Penn St 21-24 W vs Northw 24-20 W vs Nebraska 62-3 W @ Maryland 62-3 W @ Mich St 17-16 W vs Michigan 30-27 L @ Clemson 0-31 CFP
What It Meant

2016 reached the CFP — the modern era's table-stakes benchmark — and sits in Ohio State's peak-tier chapters.