A beloved Michigan Week tradition has literally gone down the drain in Columbus this year. The annual Mirror Lake Jump, an annual exercise in school spirit and questionable decision-making won’t happen this year. That’s because there’s no water to jump into. The school drained the lake last week in an effort to end the decades-old tradition of students jumping in during the week of the Michigan game.
Michigan had dominated The Game for more than a decade when Jim Tressel arrived at Ohio State in January 2001. At halftime of the Buckeyes’ next basketball game (against Michigan, of course) Tressel was introduced to a cheering crowd. He immediately made his famous proclamation that Buckeye fans would be…
The numbers are almost unprecedented in Ohio State football history. A whopping 51 points allowed, 339 yards rushing, 7.1 yards per rush, 28 yards per pass completion. A 5-5 Maryland team that got shut out at Iowa in mid-October, and scored a whopping 3 points at home against Michigan State in early November, suddenly…
For the first time since he came to Ohio State, Jim Tressel found out what it felt like to lose The Game. No. 9 Michigan jumped out to leads of 21-0 and 28-7 on No. 2 OSU, and then hung on for their first win in three tries against Tressel. The Buckeyes mounted a furious second-half comeback, using a Santonio Holmes touchdown…
Welcome back to the Grumpy Old Buckeye, the column that aims to be the voice of negativity, even when things are going great. It’s where I point out the things from each game that make me want to walk out onto my lawn in my bathrobe and yell at people about it. This week we’re talking Ohio State at Maryland.
With only one regular season game left, the Ohio State football team is down to only a handful of possible postseason destinations. The 52-51 overtime win over Maryland might have created a few ulcers among Buckeye fans, but it also meant OSU is basically locked into a New Year’s Six bowl berth. Now, the question…
Dwayne Haskins might have played the best game of his career on Saturday at Maryland. He threw for more than 400 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for 59 yards and three more scores in the Buckeyes’ 52-51 overtime win over the Terps. In the middle of the second quarter, Haskins set the OSU single-season…
The 2002 Ohio State Buckeyes beat Michigan 14-9 at Ohio Stadium to clinch the Big Ten title and wrap up a perfect regular season. Maurice Clarett got the Bucks on the board with a touchdown run in the first half, but three Michigan field goals left OSU trailing at halftime. The Wolverines were still clinging to a 9-7 lead in…
