The iconic helmets, the marching bands and all the passion woven into the fabric of Ohio State’s historic football rivalry with Michigan make for an annual inflamed rite of late November.
OSU-Michigan is part of us in central Ohio, has been since the first meeting in 1897, and will forever be as long as the proud programs take the field to test their mettle in honorable fashion.
However, today’s renewal of “The Game” causes extra heartbeats as a veritable blast from the past, a 1970s rerun when Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler stomped along the sidelines of faded artificial turf, their fists clenched, your own world teetering.