Once this was Ann Arbor’s domain, solely. The “Oh How I Hate Ohio State” bumper stickers. The delicious contempt for an Ohio town called Columbus.
The blood-boil, the vitriol, the sport of making Ohio State’s football team the vilest of enemies was a birthright owned by those attached to the University of Michigan.
Michigan State? Well, you’ve got Notre Dame, kind of. And always the Wolverines.
Until recent years, anyway.
Now the Spartans can likewise look across the border and snort and spit at a Buckeyes team MSU seems frequently to be meeting in its own toothy rivalry that, again Saturday, will shape the Big Ten championship when the lads lock up in a noon kickoff at Ohio Stadium.