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…
Good is the enemy of great. Michigan is good. Ohio State is great. And once again the Buckeyes asserted their dominance over a Michigan team that had such high expectations and failed to meet almost every last one of them. Ohio State won The Game 56-27 on Saturday, the eighth time in a row they have made the Wolverines rethink their respective life choices.
“People say ‘What if you don’t win The Game?’ There’s no choice. You have to win The Game. You don’t have a choice when you’re a Buckeye. You have to win that game.”
Before the game, the talk from Michigan fans and radio hosts and blog writers was actually about The Game. How to win it, how not to lose it, and how much a win was needed and wanted. And how possible that win actually was. They picked Michigan to beat Ohio State. They believed it was possible. Hell, they believed it was probable. Or at least they…
In this episode of the Buckeye SloopCast, Jared and Kyle recap Ohio State’s 56-27 win over Michigan. They discuss various items contained within that 56-27 win, including many of the key players in making the 56-27 win happen. They talk about OSU’s difficulties, which initially made a 56-27 win seem unlikely. Basically, everything about Ohio State’s 56-27 win over Michigan…
There is good and bad in every game. Some games have more good than bad, and some games have more bad than good. And some games require an actual running game in order to win. This feature is about acknowledging both the bad and good, or whichever stood out to us most. Borrowing from Ohio State’s practice of handing out Buckeye leaves for good plays, we will do the same.
J.K. Dobbins did something no Buckeye has done since 1968. Justin Fields did something only two OSU quarterbacks have ever done before. And OSU humiliated Michigan in a way they’ve never managed against schools like Purdue, Minnesota, Iowa, or Michigan State.
On Saturday, Ohio State went into Ann Arbor and did to Michigan what they have done to every other team this season, which is pretty much whatever they wanted. The Buckeyes put up over 500 yards of total offense and scored 14 points in each quarter. The winning percentage of those two stats together is probably somewhere around .9997.
Ohio State went into Ann Arbor on Saturday and beat Michigan for an eighth-consecutive year. It was their 15th win in 16 games, and 17th win in the last 19 meetings. Some would call it ‘old hat,’ but if the new hat fits so great and looks so good every year, it’s okay to admire it for its individual beauty. There is no reason to just toss it on your pile of other hats.
