Football Flashback 1993: Buckeyes and Badgers Play to Draw in Madison – Ohio State Buckeyes
10/2/2008 12:00:00 AM | Football
Buckeyes and Badgers play to draw in Madison, 14-14, and eventually shared the 1993 Big Ten title.
AP (Nov. 6, 1993) – Ohio State retained its hold on first place with a tie at Wisconsin.
There was little to celebrate after the third-ranked Buckeyes blocked a 33-yard field goal try with one second left to preserve a 14-14 tie and severely damage the Rose Bowl hopes of the 15th-ranked Badgers.
Ohio State rallied for the tie with a 99-yard scoring drive and then denied Wisconsin the victory when Marlon Kerner blocked Rick Schnetzky’s kick on the next-to-last play.
The tie left first-place Ohio State (8-0-1, 5-0-1) in control of the Big Ten race.
Ohio State tied it on a 26-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Bret Powers to Joey Galloway with 3:48 left. The Buckeyes drove 99 yards on four pass plays, with all but 11 of the yards coming on passes from Powers to Galloway. Powers sat on the bench the entire half until that series.
Wisconsin then drove to Ohio State 15 with seven seconds left. After two timeouts, Schnetzky — a walk-on who kicked his first two field goals last week, came on for the game-winning attempt.
After the kick was blocked, Ohio State took over on its 19 and Powers threw a long pass that fell incomplete.
Ohio State took a 7-0 lead on a 3-yard run by Raymont Harris in the first quarter, but Wisconsin moved in front 14-7 on an 8-yard touchdown pass from Darrell Bevell to Lee DeRamus in the second quarter and a 3-yard run by Brent Moss in the third quarter.
Ohio State moved into Wisconsin territory on its first two drives of the fourth quarter, but Jeff Messenger and Donny Brady intercepted passes by Bobby Hoying to halt the drives.
Moss carried 25 times for 129 yards, his eighth consecutive game over 100 yards.
