The letter M disappears as Rivalry Week begins in Columbus

Before a possible conference title game, and a chance to perhaps reach the College Football Playoff, is the work of playing Michigan State, senior defensive end Evan Schwan said.

Even though MI and Ohio State’s rankings each have withstood a loss this season, competition from top teams in other conferences and even their own means the Playoff candidacy of Saturday’s losing team likely will end. During the off-season we have a countdown until we play that game.

For first time since 1960, three Big Ten teams have ascended to the top five in the Associated Press college football rankings.

It’s rekindled memories of the best games between two of college football’s traditional powers. “I think last year, even though we’d gotten as far as 12-1, and playing in that playoff game (a 38-0 loss to eventual national champion Alabama) I think it stung a little bit when we didn’t win, as opposed to the last four years, when we had won our bowl games”. MI leads the nation in limiting opponents to 245.6 yards per game. Ohio State saw punter Cameron Johnston named a finalist for the Ray Guy Award, which honors the nation’s top punter, and center Pat Elflein named a finalist for the Outland Trophy, which honors the nation’s top interior lineman. Michigan had made significant progress during its first season under Bo Schembechler, but still suffered lopsided losses to Missouri and Michigan State. The stadium is commonly referred to as the “House that Chic Built”. In my opinion, these are the eight greatest games in Michigan-Ohio State history. The storm was blamed for hundreds of deaths, as parts of OH saw more than 2 feet of snow.

Even if they wanted to, it will be hard for the Penn State players to avoid finding out what’s happening in the Ohio State-Michigan game.

The stage is finally set for MI and Ohio State, and if their most recent work is any indication, points will be hard to come by next weekend at the Horseshoe. As much as Buckeye fans genuinely hate MI, even they felt compelled to give Harmon a standing ovation.

Ohio State came into the 1969 game on a 22-game winning streak, and was largely considered one of the greatest college football teams ever put together. Washington would be 12-1. Just getting into that now, and evaluating what we can do.

“My first year I was redshirting and I went to the game there (in 2013) and there was a brawl with my classmate Dontre Wilson in it”.

Speaking of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry, BTN is airing “The Game 2006 …”

Ohio State and MI entered the 1973 game unbeaten and playing for a Big Ten title. Ohio State has returned a school-record six interceptions for touchdowns this season. He said those two criteria are only to be used to break ties, but in the committee’s eyes, there is no tie because it already views Ohio State as a better team than Penn State.

The controversy led to a number of changes.

A win over a top 10 team in Wisconsin would bolster PSU’s resume. Both defenses are dominant and the two offenses are balanced.

This particular addition to pregame festivities will become especially relevant on Saturday as Penn State and Michigan State are set to play at 3:30 while Ohio State and Michigan take the field a few hours earlier at noon.

Adding to the emotions of the game, Schembechler died the day before the game. O’Korn transferred to MI a year ago after starting 16 games at Houston over his freshman and sophomore seasons. MI was 8-3 entering the game and a heavy underdog.