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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State saved its best fight for last. Unfortunately for all that is Scarlet and Gray, when the Buckeyes finally started throwing punches — or something close to them — time had expired here Saturday afternoon.
On the game.
Perhaps on the season.
The resulting postgame melee between Ohio State and Michigan laid bare the worst parts of one of the game’s best rivalries. Several skirmishes broke out on the field among players following Michigan’s 13-10 win after some Wolverines players attempted to plant two of the team’s flags at midfield.
In what was their strongest display of male testosterone of the day, Ohio State finally defended their field — as the stands were emptying out, as the boos were raining down. As a fourth straight loss to the Team Up North began to sink in.
And fester.
“We’re going to win in your house, and we’re going to plant the flag,” Michigan quarterback Davis Warren said afterward. “You should have done something about it.”
All of it came after four years of planning for this moment, when all things Harbaugh, Stalions and Go Blue were going to be backhanded into the Olentangy River in one big payback that was going to make all right with the Ohio State universe again. The line opened with Ohio State favored by 23.5 points, the biggest in the history of the series. Ohio State fielded the best roster money could buy, $20 million of it, for this purpose. To pound Michigan.
And then the Buckeyes did what they absolutely couldn’t, shouldn’t do. They came out flat.
That’s the best way to explain how a team whose only blemish this season was a one-point loss to Oregon could stink this much. All it was going to take for a Big Ten Championship Game rematch with the Ducks was a comfortable win over the…
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Author : Dennis Dodd
Publish date : 2024-11-30 23:52:00
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