Ohio State fans will hope next Saturday's meeting with Marshall proves less dramatic than the first time the schools met 20 years ago.
The 2004 game between the Buckeyes and Thundering Herd remains one of just two times the teams have faced each other in football – the other coming in 2010 – despite Marshall University sitting on the banks of the Ohio River, merely a two-and-a-half-hour drive away from Columbus.
Given Ohio State's record against in-state schools across the last century plus, the Herd may count themselves lucky that Huntington finds itself just inside of the West Virginia border.