Shannon Sommers and Chip Minnich get together to discuss The Game. They give a quick recap and discuss what happened. They then turn their attention to the dumpster fire in Knoxville that cost Greg Schiano the Tennessee head coaching job. Danny Cunningham of Mad City Sports Zone joins Shannon to discuss the Wisconsin Badgers.
Michigan began the game with a 14-0 lead over Ohio State on Saturday. All was well with the Wolverines’ world. And then the Buckeyes went on a 31-6 run to close the game. They didn’t so much snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, they just gave Michigan a head start. And then quickly caught up. According to the Wolverines…
There are some things that you never want to get used to no matter how often it happens. For the Michigan Wolverines, one of those things would be their annual loss to Ohio State. The Buckeyes have now won 15 of 17 matchups this century, and never once did a Wolverine player just sit back and accept his fate.
One of the biggest plays on Saturday almost never happened. It wasn’t Austin Mack’s incredible catch in traffic, or a long run by J.K Dobbins or Mike Weber, but rather Marcus Baugh’s touchdown reception from the arm of J.T. Barrett. After withstanding a first quarter that saw the Buckeyes trailing 14-0, and negative yardage in…
What can we learn from something that happens every year? Good question. Ohio State took Michigan’s best shot on Saturday, but finished the game with a 31-6 barrage that put the Wolverines away. Michigan fans may argue that that was their best shot, but this was The Game, and you always get each team’s best shot.
Urban Meyer has had a three-year head start on Jim Harbaugh, and it showed on Saturday. But Harbaugh has still had three years to put something together that would have been better than what we saw in Ohio State’s 31-20 win on Saturday. A win that ended with a 31-6 OSU run after a 14-0 start by the Wolverines.
