It is not altogether certain Ohio State will compile a disastrous football season even though some of the talk shows already have the Buckeyes losing three or four games. Even the one loss already in hand is enough to begin talk of next year.

Stop it.

There are just not enough Akrons these days for everybody to win every time they play. Some days, your favorite team is just going to lose.

I’d say right now — and the NCAA is lurking in the corner — that Ohio State is sitting on an unprecedented run of excellence in football.

Since 1959, the Buckeyes have had exactly three losing seasons, the last in 1988.

That was the start of the John Cooper era, and while his first four teams were a bland 27-18-2, that hardly matches some of the bad patches Michigan and Notre Dame and Texas and Nebraska and USC went through the last half century.

Would you have liked being a Michigan fan the last three years? Or a Notre Dame fan the last dozen seasons?

And if Cooper could have figured out a way to beat Michigan, think of how good his 1995-98 teams would have been instead of just 43-7.

Call this season a down one, but I’m guessing the Buckeyes will still finish with a competitive record and will in the future challenge for national titles again.

Let’s stop going so crazy when they lose a game or two. Other places have been through it a lot more than the Buckeyes.

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