Chris Olave Ohio State Football Buckeyes Michigan
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Social Distancing: Ohio State’s Passing Game vs. Michigan’s Pass Defense

We began our Social Distancing series examining the recruiting of Michigan and Ohio State on Thursday with a broad look overall at the two rosters and the respective rankings of their scholarship players as recruits. Now we move forward with a more compartmental look, concentrating our focus on distinct areas of the field and how they compare. Today, we’ll take…

Ohio State Buckeyes Ezekiel Elliott vs. Michigan 2014
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Social Distancing: Ohio State Recruiting vs. Michigan Recruiting

If your hypothesis is that Ohio State football has distanced itself from Michigan football, all you’d really need to prove it is the scoreboard since 2001. Even more recently, the Buckeyes have won eight in a row over the Wolverines, with the last two getting very out of hand. The concerning thing for the Michigan football program, however, is that if you look at the compositions…

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Water Cooler: It’s Third and 11 Late Vs. Michigan, Who’s Your QB and WR?

With the shortage in national pastimes happening right now, we thought we’d turn to one of our other national pastimes — standing around the water cooler and arguing about sports. So Tom Orr and myself have begun a series where we take interesting and somewhat random sports topics and lay out our thoughts on them, just as you have done and will do again…

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It’s Been 3,000 Days Since Michigan Beat Ohio State

On November 26, 2011, Michigan beat Ohio State, 40-34. The loss capped a 6-6 regular season for the Buckeyes and propelled the Wolverines to a Sugar Bowl berth against Virginia Tech. Wednesday, February 12, 2020 marks exactly 3,000 days since that day, the last time Michigan won The Game. A number like “3,000 days” can be hard to wrap your head around, especially…

Buckeye Weekly Ohio State Football Buckeyes Podcast
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Buckeye Weekly Podcast — The One Stages of Grief for Michigan Fans

In this episode of the Buckeye Weekly podcast, Tony Gerdeman and Tom Orr react to the reactions from Michigan fans following Ohio State’s 56-27 win on Saturday. They discuss Ohio State’s immense advantages in this rivalry, such as computers and trying. They then talk about what Ryan Day and his Buckeyes had to say on Tuesday in the lead up to Saturday’s game against…