1. In the grand scheme of things, Ohio State's most recent game against the hated, rival Michigan Wolverines was almost an afterthought. 2014's edition wasn't anything like the pitiful Rich Rod years, in which Jim Tressel ran roughshod through the Wolverines, that hideous "Go Blue We Support You" banner thing, and Rodriguez's anticlimactic concluding days as Michigan's head coach. The Game in 2014 almost felt like just a game.
This is, of course, with no disrespect to Michigan here, it's just that there was much more, and much bigger, and much brighter in the past and possibly in the future.