American college football season
The1913 Ohio State Buckeyes football team representedOhio State University as a member of theWestern Conference and theOhio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the1913 college football season . Led by first-year head coach,John Wilce , the Buckeyes compiled an overall record of 4–2–1 and outscored opponents 154–27. Ohio State had a record of 1–2 againstWestern Conference opponents and 3–0–1 in OAC play.
Their inaugural Big Ten season marked Ohio State's first ever matchups with Northwestern[ 2] and Wisconsin.[ 3] The game against Indiana was their sixth all-time meeting and their first game against the Hoosiers as conference-mates.[ 4]
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