2010 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

2010 Ohio State Buckeyes football
Big Ten co-champion (vacated)
Sugar Bowl champion (vacated)
Sugar Bowl, W 31–26 vs. Arkansas (vacated)
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 5
APNo. 5
Record0–1, 12 wins vacated (0–1 Big Ten, 7 wins vacated)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorJim Bollman (10th season)
Offensive schemeMultiple
Defensive coordinatorJim Heacock (6th season)
Co-defensive coordinatorLuke Fickell (6th season)
Base defense4–3
MVPDane Sanzenbacher
Captain
6
Home stadiumOhio Stadium
Seasons
← 2009
2011 →
2010 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 14 Michigan State +   7 – 1     11 – 2  
No. 7 Wisconsin $+   7 – 1     11 – 2  
Iowa   4 – 4     8 – 5  
Illinois   4 – 4     7 – 6  
Penn State   4 – 4     7 – 6  
Michigan   3 – 5     7 – 6  
Northwestern   3 – 5     7 – 6  
Purdue   2 – 6     4 – 8  
Minnesota   2 – 6     3 – 9  
Indiana   1 – 7     5 – 7  
No. 5 Ohio State† %   0 – 1     0 – 1  
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • % – BCS at-large representative
  • + – Conference co-champions
  • † – Ohio State (12–1, 7–1) self-vacated all of their wins[1]
Rankings from AP Poll[2][3]

The 2010 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Buckeyes were coached by Jim Tressel and played their home games in Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. They were members of the Big Ten Conference.

Ohio State vacated all 12 wins from 2010, including a vacated Sugar Bowl win (Arkansas, 31–26) due to NCAA violations. The Buckeyes are officially recorded as having finished the season 0–1, with the only game not vacated being a loss to Wisconsin.

On July 8, 2011, in the wake of NCAA violations for improper benefits to student athletes and the subsequent cover-up, Ohio State vacated all of its victories, as well as the co-conference and Sugar Bowl championships, from the 2010 season as self-imposed sanctions.[4] Since then the athletes who received the improper benefits have called for the team's wins and records to be reinstated following changes in the NCAA's name, image and likeness rules in 2021, despite the NCAA stating that it had no plans to re-evaluate or reconsider any previous penalties related to those rules in July 2021.[5][6] In May 2022 the Ohio House of Representatives adopted a non-unanimous symbolic resolution calling on the NCAA to reinstate the team's wins and records.[7][8][9]

  1. ^ "Buckeyes vacate wins from last football season". ESPN.com. July 8, 2011. The measures taken by the school included vacating all the Buckeyes' wins from last season, a year in which Ohio State captured a record-tying sixth straight Big Ten title and won an unprecedented seventh straight game over Michigan.
  2. ^ "Big Ten Conference Standings - 2010". ESPN. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
  3. ^ "2014 NCAA Football Rankings - Week 16". ESPN. December 7, 2010. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
  4. ^ "Buckeyes vacate wins from last football season". ESPN.com. July 8, 2011. The measures taken by the school included vacating all the Buckeyes' wins from last season, a year in which Ohio State captured a record-tying sixth straight Big Ten title and won an unprecedented seventh straight game over Michigan.
  5. ^ "Former Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor and 'Tattoo 5' want NCAA to reinstate 2010 records due to new NIL rules". CBSSports.com. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  6. ^ "NCAA won't re-evaluate penalties for Bush, other cases". AP NEWS. July 28, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  7. ^ "Lawmakers want Ohio State's 2010 football season restored". NBC4 WCMH-TV. May 20, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  8. ^ "Lawmakers want Ohio State's 2010 football season restored". spectrumnews1.com. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  9. ^ Sanese, Mary Jane. "Remember all those games the Buckeyes won and were tossed out? Lawmakers want to fix it". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved January 10, 2023.