Everyone knows all about the great rivalries in sports — Yankees-Red Sox, Lakers-Celtics, Texas-Oklahoma. But perhaps the greatest is Michigan football vs. Ohio State.
While The Game had been a somewhat respectful affair, dating back to the Bo vs. Woody days, it’s become increasingly hostile as of late. And the heat really turned up once Ryan Day took over the Buckeyes program from Urban Meyer — who had gone 7-0 in his tenure against hte Wolverines.
Day followed suit, winning in his first year, 2019. The two teams didn’t play in 2020 due to COVID-19 hampering the maize and blue. But in 2021, when OSU considered it to still be its birthright to win The Game, Michigan upset the mighty Buckeyes and took away everything they thought they deserved that year.
And the next. And the next. And the next.
Well, Ohio State did win the national championship this year, but it cannot boast that it did so while having beaten its rival.
CBS Sports put together a list of the greatest rivalries among coaches over the past 25 years, and Jim Harbaugh vs. Ryan Day made the cut — mostly for obvious reasons.
Ohio State beat Michigan 56-27 in Day’s first year as coach, which propelled it to a Big Ten title and an appearance in the College Football Playoff. In Aug. 2020, during a private Big Ten coaches teleconference, Harbaugh reportedly interrupted Day while he was speaking to accuse Day of violating NCAA rules against early on-field instruction and drills during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During a team meeting later that day, Day told Ohio State’s players and coaches that the Big Ten better have a mercy rule because the Buckeyes were going to “hang 100” on Michigan in their next game. Ohio State and Michigan did not meet in 2020 due to COVID-19 complications, and in 2021 Michigan cruised to a 42-27 victory, its first win in the series since…
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