Buckeye Traditions and That Team Up North

This post inspired Saturday’s edition of This Week in Michigan Football History, airing on WTKA 1050AM’s Keybank Countdown to Kickoff ahead of THE GAME! Go Blue!

While Michigan has had different top rivals over our 140 years of pigskin prowess, make no mistake that from Ohio’s perspective it has always been about that team up north. So it’s no surprise that Michigan figures deep into many of Ohio State’s most cherished football traditions. Here are a few prominent examples:

In 1902, after witnessing Fielding Yost’s crew pound his Buckeyes 86-0 in Ann Arbor, OSU freshman Francis Cornell wrote the words to ‘Carmen Ohio‘, the OSU alma mater, on the train ride home. This is the tune the Buckeyes…