The 1913 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University as a member of the Western Conference and the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1913 college football season. Led by first-year head coach, John Wilce, the Buckeyes compiled an overall record of 4âÂÂ2âÂÂ1 and outscored opponents 154âÂÂ27. Ohio State had a record of 1âÂÂ2 against Western Conference opponents and 3âÂÂ0âÂÂ1 in OAC play.
Their inaugural Big Ten season marked Ohio State's first ever matchups with Northwestern and Wisconsin. The game against Indiana was their sixth all-time meeting and their first game against the Hoosiers as conference-mates.