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Buckeyes Need To Go Full Retro Against Michigan

Ohio State will be going with their 1954 throwbacks for the Michigan game this year, an odd move since being Ohio State in itself is kind of retro-all-the-time: The unchanging horseshoe (a stadium most programs would have blocked in for additional seating by now), the old school reliance on special teams and defense to carry your teams, and their sweatervested coach, who would have looked completely comfortable on the sidelines in the sixties coaching a team full of kids with crew cuts.

If they do go throwback, they're going to have to do more than just adjust the jerseys. (They don't really look all that retro to begin with, and bear more than a passing resemblance to the Atlanta Falcons' current jerseys). Step one: BOOM!

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Ohhhhh yeah. Old school helmets. Step two? Bring back the old "inkwell-with-legs" Buckeye mascot. Three, the Buckeyes will have to run an offense from the 60s--oh, wait. Never mind. That should be two things, not three. Some things they've already got under control in the retro department.

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I’m pretty sure they aren’t going totally old school – I do believe the helmets will have a facemask on them, not just a chin strap!

I posted that image just to show what the 1954 helmet design looked like back in the day.

The jerseys are supposedly patterned from the 1954 look, but with a modernized design.

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by BlockONation on Nov 5, 2009 12:46 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I do believe the helmets will have a facemask on them, not just a chin strap!

The heck you say!

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by Holly Anderson on Nov 5, 2009 2:22 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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