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Social Distancing: Michigan’s Rush Offense vs. Ohio State’s Rush Defense

Welcome to the fifth-and-final piece in our Social Distancing series detailing just how much better Ohio State’s recruiting has been than Michigan’s the last four or five years. Both teams have been measured by the recruiting rankings of every scholarship player on their respective rosters. Many of the more jarring findings can be seen in this first piece.

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Social Distancing: Ohio State’s Rush Offense vs. Michigan’s Rush Defense

This is the fourth in our series examining the Ohio State and Michigan football rosters through the scope of recruiting that began last month. The first piece was just an overall look at both rosters and it revealed findings such as the OSU roster has 33 players on it who were ranked in the top 100 of their respective recruiting classes. Michigan, on the other hand, has only five.

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Social Distancing: Michigan’s Passing Game vs. Ohio State’s Pass Defense

Last week we started a series on the vast differences between recruiting at Ohio State and Michigan. We took the respective recruiting rankings of every scholarship player on both rosters (as well as Penn State, who operates possibly as some kind of control group in the woods) and began comparing them against each other. But not quarterbacks vs. quarterbacks…

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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…

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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…