yup, right after our coach left us high and dry... (12-0 'season' that year, coach booked for ND 2 weeks before bowl game...). I wasnt one of hte people saying we would "smoke" OSU, but if there was a year we had a chance, it was that year. Keep in mind, in 2002, we lost literally by the fingertips of missing a TD catch at the end of the 4th quarter. Then in 2004, we got smoked 27-6 in our first game of the season (finished season 7-5). And again in 2006 we got smoked 7-37
Now where hte 'shit talk' initiated was in 2008 when a strong bearcats team was emerging, and OSU wanted to cancel the 2012 game... and then in the end negotiated moving it to OSU... so it was trash talk that OSU was scared to lose to a team before starting b10 play, etc....