MI coach Jim Harbaugh destroys buckeye with hammer on Bo Schembechler’s

Ohio State can win the Big Ten East with a victory in Ann Arbor and a Michigan State loss to visiting Penn State later in the day.

The most important thing for Ohio State on Saturday is to win the game and salvage as much as it can out of this season after last week’s crushing loss against Michigan State.

Both Michigan State and U of M rose in the rankings this week, State from ninth to fifth and UM from 12th to 10th, while Ohio State fell from third to eighth place.

As a boy, Jim Harbaugh sat in coach Bo Schembechler’s office long before he ever played for the Wolverines.

“Yeah, there are not many people that can say they have done that, so that would be an awesome accomplishment for us”, he said of himself and his classmates.

“Or we could come back and use it as motivation like we did a year ago and continue to get better”.

It was a pre-Ohio State game ritual.

“We’ve been here five years and we haven’t won it yet”, new coach Tracy Claeys said.

“I’ve watched the game every year since 1973”.

“They not only have a better record, they are simply a much better team”. They better arrive at the Big House ready for 12th-ranked Michigan’s best shot because the victor goes to the conference championship game if Michigan State is upset by Penn State.

The first time he saw Ohio State and Michigan play, he was in the south end zone of Michigan Stadium when the teams played to a 10-10 tie in 1973.

That’s 1986 – “The Guarantee” – when Harbaugh guaranteed MI would beat the Buckeyes in Columbus then led the Wolverines to a 26-24 win. “Those were the guys of my generation that I enjoyed watching”.

Bosa was flagged three times, with his last error turning a fourth-and-8 into a more manageable scenario on the Spartans’ game-tying drive in the fourth quarter.

The Game is finally here, Buckeye Nation. “It was a huge game, a real fun exciting one, but one that just kind of really did it for me in terms of what the rivalry really is”.

Michigan State: QB Tyler O’Connor.

College football plays an invaluable role during the Thanksgiving holiday. “Hopefully, we’ve got another generation coming through”, he said.