Buckeye Traditions and That Team Up North

[Ed. 10/21/22, On the 100th Anniversary of the Ohio Stadium dedication, a repost of this event and many other Buckeye traditions that have direct ties to TTUN. 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…