| Year: | 1916 |
| Team: | Ohio State Buckeyes |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Western Conference |
| Short Conf: | Western |
| Conference2: | Ohio Athletic Conference |
| Short Conf2: | OAC |
| Record: | 7–0 |
| Conf Record: | 4–0 |
| Conf2 Record: | 3–0 |
| Head Coach: | John Wilce |
| Hc Year: | 4th |
| Off Scheme: | Heavy run |
| Def Scheme: | Multi |
| Stadium: | Ohio Field |
| Champion: | Western Conference champion |
| Uniform: | 10sohiostuniform.png |
The 1916 Ohio State Buckeyes football was an American football team that represented Ohio State University as a member of the Western Conference and the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1916 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach John Wilce, the Buckeyes compiled a perfect 7–0 record and outscored opponents 258 to 29. Ohio State was 4–0 Western Conference opponents, winning the conference championship, the first in school history.[1]
Half of the team's points were tallied in a 128–0 victory over . The 128 points scored against Oberlin remains a single-game Ohio State record.[2]
Halfback Chic Harley was a consensus first-team pick on the 1916 All-America college football team.[3] Other notable players included end Charles Bolen, center Ferdinand Holtkamp, and tackle Bob Karch.