Michigan vs. Ohio State Will Not Be Decided in the Rust Belt

We begin with the requisite public service announcement. This is the college football game that you just have to have on your screen when devouring the last of those Turkey Day leftovers around lunchtime on Saturday.

“It is nice to be knowing who you are playing against, but I expect them all to play”, OSU linebacker Chris Worley said.

Because they’ll be looking to hit them Wolverines every chance they get on Saturday, they’ve done up their tackling dummies in a Michigan Wolverines motif.

Each week’s ranking inevitably raises some questions. Previous year against Michigan, Barrett ran for 139 yards and three touchdowns in Ohio States 42-13 win.

Growing up in Ashtabula, Ohio, the northeast part of the state, Meyer and his family were unabashed Buckeyes fans. No. 2-ranked Ohio State is set to host No. 3-ranked MI in what is known in the Midwest as “The Game“. MSU is 4-2 against Penn State under Dantonio, including three wins in a row.

“We want to finish with a ‘W, ‘” he said. There is nothing better than Ohio State and MI with a possible trip to the Big Ten championship game and perhaps a shot at a national championship on the line. “He’s a sparkplug for our team”, said Jackson State head coach Wayne Brent. MI is No. 3 in the country, and Ohio State is No. 2. But if there was room only for one?

MI coach Jim Harbaugh said Barrett is hard to predict because he’s able to do so many things well. MI won five, Ohio State four and there was one tie. Wide receivers have become mostly supporting players.

Marshall: The Thundering Herd had their lowest scoring output in the teams’ first loss. Mostly on the strength of a talented defensive line that has solid depth. The Buckeyes won and advanced to the national championship game, where they lost to Urban Meyer-coached Florida.

Sorry, you can’t wash away those three losses (including a 52-6 loss to Alabama in the opener). Louisville, 12. Southern Cal, 13.

“It’s very important”, cornerback Jourdan Lewis said. It’s personal for the people who have played in the game, and it’s personal for the people who are now about to play in the game. It was a good day for us yesterday.

“It’s up to Coach Dantonio”, Bledsoe said.

“You know what happened, the other night I came home and I just kind of sat there and stared at the wall and I guess it was on and I just watched it and I just kept replaying it in my mind”.

Asked if this season’s matchup – with all of college football watching – might be a good thing for the Big Ten, he replied: “Probably good”. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, I can’t even believe he just did that.’ It’s great having an athlete on your side”.

He won’t, but we will. The Trojans are playing very well, maybe as well as any team in the country.

“We’ll make decisions based on how guys practice this week”, he said. A win and WMU rows the boat to Detroit for the Mid-American Conference title game on December 2nd.

Nope, not yet, but not for lack of talking.

At 7-1 in conference play, Ohio State is tied with MI and Penn State for the lead in the East. So who wins? Here are five reasons the Buckeyes are victorious this Saturday.

But selection committee chairman Kirby Hocutt still isn’t going down that path.

“It was just like, great timing, I guess, that it came together when they were playing MI in the biggest game of the season”, he said. Obviously they have different athletes and things like that. 1 and 4 seeds, while the other will get the Nos. Alabama remained secure in top spot garnering a 90 percent probability of making it to the playoffs.

Wisconsin and Nebraska have identical records, but the Badgers hold the advantage in the head-to-head meeting after beating the Cornhuskers, 23-17 on Oct 29.

Still streaking: Wisconsin can secure its piece of the Big Ten West Division title with a win over Minnesota on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.

The Badgers likely won’t need to worry about any team outside the top six jumping ahead of them if they win their final two games.

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