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1955 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

1955 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Ohio State $ 6 – 0 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
No. 2 Michigan State 5 – 1 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
No. 12 Michigan 5 – 2 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
Purdue 4 – 2 – 1 5 – 3 – 1
Illinois 3 – 3 – 1 5 – 3 – 1
Wisconsin 3 – 4 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Iowa 2 – 3 – 1 3 – 5 – 1
Minnesota 2 – 5 – 0 3 – 6 – 0
Indiana 1 – 5 – 0 3 – 6 – 0
Northwestern 0 – 6 – 1 0 – 8 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1955 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1955 Big Ten Conference football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 7–2 record.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24Nebraska*No. 6
W 28–2080,171
October 1at Stanford*No. 8
L 0–628,000
October 8Illinois
W 27–1282,407
October 15No. 11 Duke*No. 14
  • Ohio Stadium
  • Columbus, OH
L 14–2082,254[1]
October 22at No. 15 Wisconsin
W 26–1653,529
October 29NorthwesternNo. 15
  • Ohio Stadium
  • Columbus, OH
W 49–082,214
November 5IndianaNo. 11
  • Ohio Stadium
  • Columbus, OH
W 20–1380,730
November 12No. 20 IowaNo. 10
  • Ohio Stadium
  • Columbus, OH
W 20–1082,701
November 19at No. 6 MichiganNo. 9
W 17–097,369
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Game summaries

Nebraska

Stanford

Illinois

Duke

Wisconsin

Northwestern

Indiana

Iowa

Michigan

Coaching staff

Awards and honors

Trivia

  • The November 12 game against Iowa was mentioned in the movie Back to the Future Part II. A radio announcer telling the scores of the day's games mentions that Ohio State beat Iowa 20-10.

1956 NFL draftees

Player Round Pick Position NFL club
Howard Cassady 1 3 Halfback Detroit Lions
Fran Machinsky 4 41 Tackle Washington Redskins
Ken Vargo 9 106 Center Chicago Bears
Jerry Harkrader 22 261 Back New York Giants

References

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