10 Ohio State Football players that TTUN loved to hate the most
By Ryan Stano
8. Dwayne Haskins
The 2018 Ohio State football team had one of the most disappointing losses in recent memory when they got trounced by Purdue. I was at that game and had to watch it in misery. Yet by the end of the season, they were playing their best football and were making a push for an outside shot at the CFP.
TTUN was trying to make its first CFP when they came into the Shoe. They were heavily favored against the Bucks and were ranked fourth in the country coming in. They left with a big fat L after what Dwayne Haskins and the Buckeye offense were able to do to them.
Haskins threw for 396 yards and 6 touchdowns against TTUN, tying Ohio State’s record for most touchdown passes in a game. He torched them repeatedly up and down the field and handed Michigan an embarrassing 63-39 loss and kept them out of the CFP.
It wasn’t just the 2018 game that made TTUN fans hate him though. He came in the 2017 game for just a series when J.T. Barrett went out with a knee injury. Haskins made a game-saving third-down conversion to Austin Mack in an extremely tight window.
After that throw, the Buckeyes were able to keep going down the field and ultimately beat TTUN 31-20 to keep their winning streak alive. It was one of the gutsiest moments in the rivalry’s history to come in cold off the bench and deliver like that.
The next person on this list is another player who just had one start against TTUN.