If, when you close your eyes, you still see Chris Olave breaking off his route in the end zone, see the imagined touchdown picked off by Clemson, you know what I mean by “heart breaker.” Maybe we didn’t expect to win that game anyway. There were lots of things going wrong — the targeting call, a fumble in the end zone, a fumble for a TD called back, settling for field goals early on — and the Buckeyes were 0 for whatever against Clemson at that point.
Yet... that Ohio State team was really, really good.