In 2008, Jim Tressel and the Ohio State Buckeyes decided that the passing game was optional.
And not in the sense that the read option play should be an integral part of the passing game (though that would've been smart), but more in the sense of "passing the football is a dangerous and dumb idea created by communists in the 1950's and we refuse to fall into their insidious plot."
For an outside observer like myself, this was incredibly frustrating. In part because the forward pass was actually smuggled to the United States from Fiji under the guise of selling us bottled water (everyone knows that), but also because it led to some embarrassing losses against better, more balanced teams (USC, Penn State), and an infuriating loss against a quality opponent they should've beaten (Texas).