You can make your decision on the the status of OHIO football based on any criteria you so desire, just don't try to pass it off as having any rigor that should prove anything to anyone else.
I'm not trying to prove anything. Just pointing out facts. I'm not telling anyone how to perceive this program. Perceive it anyway you want.
The facts I post are to back MY perception and opinion. Take em or leave em. I don't give a crap.
Blow out losses happened all the time, even among very good and otherwise equally matched teams. I offer the current bowl season as a case in point. To draw too much from blow-out losses versus just plain losses is probably not very meaningful in terms of an analytic strategy.
Blowouts happen...to good teams sometimes....I get that.
But for Ohio it's:
Multiple blowouts.
Multiple times.
Multiple years in a row.
That shouldn't happen to good teams. Sorry.
2015: Losses by 35, 24 & 38
2014: Losses by 30, 22, 17, 18 & 18
2013: Losses by 42, 27, 49, 17 & 31
2012: Losses by 25 & 22
That's 15 losses by average of 27.6 points.
That's 15 of the 21 losses by nearly 30 points per game.
That shouldn't happen to good teams, in MY opinion.
You might think differently...and that's cool.
But to me, that is concerning.
Not trying to prove anything to anyone...just pointing out some reasoning for MY opinion