For the second-straight year, Ohio State got beat by arch-rival Michigan. And it wasn’t just beat, it was an old-fashioned second-half butt whoopin.’ The Wolverines danced and posed on the Block-O at midfield, and we’ll have to hear about it now for another year — save for an early December miracle that gets the Buckeyes into a rematch in the College Football Playoff.
Just like last season, it looks like Ohio State will be “relegated” to a spot in a New Year’s Six Bowl, most likely the Rose, at least an eleven-win season, and many other things that are easy to forget about because of how raw things are after an embarrassing showing in the biggest college football game of the year.
It’s a place today’s Ohio State fan is not used to. With so many taking their identities in all things scarlet and gray, it’s been two decades of dominance against “That School Up North,” a golden era of a bitter rivalry. And now, there is a pushback from that old rival with a run of two years that has spoiled Ohio State fans calling for massive changes in the program to win at all costs. I mean, it had to happen at some point.
Pump the brakes.
A little perspective
I’m not typically the voice of reason in a sea of discontent, but I feel it’s time to gather some perspective in a quiver of barbs being slung at a program that’s still among the elite in the country. A program that — yes, has lost two straight games to “that school” — and all the talk and disrespect that comes along with it.
We have to remember all the good that’s still going on at Ohio State with Ryan Day leading the charge. The expectations will never change on the field for the Buckeyes. As the head coach of the winningest program of all time percentage-wise, it’s expected that every game is a victory, that a Big Ten championship is a birthright, and that a national title is in sight every year.
More than that, you are expected to make Michigan crawl into a hole and retreat to…
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