That Penn State win deserves an asterisk. First game after they were basically handed the death penalty and their entire roster was given the option to transfer. If I recall, they lost something like 15 starters to transfers that off-season.
That was a good Ohio team, so it's a shame the circumstances were what they were. But the gap between us and the P5 is way bigger than the gap between us and FCS. I would take the field vs. us were we eligible for the FCS national championship, and that's not new to the Tim Albin era.
I just checked - there isn’t an asterisk in the record books. You sound like a penn state apologist that still can’t believe we won that game. They had the emotions of being the - us against the world - team and 95,000 fans cheering them on. We won fair and square and maybe with the help of a tipped pass, but the 7-8 minute Ohio drive near the end of the game was no fluke. It was also no fluke that that rag tag group won the 6 big 10 games mentioned elsewhere . No need to feel sorry for penn state and give Ohio no credit for a well earned victory.
+1 Very well said, colobobcat66.
I was there and had a very "icy" ride back to a post-game gathering with the wife of a PSU engineering faculty member. She was not pleased that OHIO had won the game, even though her hubby was an OHIO graduate. It was most inhospitable of us to actually beat the mighty Penn State Nittany Lions, especially at a time like that. We were supposed roll over and let them get that much needed first victory post-Paterno.