Jack Park, a leading Ohio State football historian, checks in each week during the college football season with a retrospective about the Buckeyes.After a disappointing trip to Penn State last weekend, No.6 Ohio State will return home for a 3:30 pm kickoff Saturday against Northwestern. The meeting between the teams will be their first since the Buckeyes posted a 40-30 victory in Evanston, Illinois, in 2013. The Wildcats last played in Columbus in 2007, losing 58-7.Saturday’s matchup will be the 76th in the series. The Buckeyes have dominated with an all-time record of 60-14-1. Ohio State has won 29 of the past 30, outscoring the Wildcats 1,276-344 (an average score of 43-11). The lone loss was a 33-27 night-game setback in overtime at Ryan Field in 2004.Forty of the games have been played in Columbus and 34 in Evanston. The 1991 contest was played in Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, where OSU won 34-3. The Wildcats last won in Ohio Stadium in 1971, 14-10.Northwestern was one of seven charter members of the Western Conference, now the Big Ten, whose first season of league competition was 1896. Ohio State joined 17 years later, in 1913. The Buckeyes’ 1916 season-ending encounter against Northwestern…
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