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Mitch Albom: Ohio State keeps giving Michigan fans reasons to hate it

Here's a look at Jim Harbaugh's projected starters for Michigan Wolverines football in 2019. The season opens Aug. 31 vs. Middle Tennessee. Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press

It’s not that Michigan fans WANT to hate Ohio State. It’s that Ohio State keeps providing so many good reasons.

Forget about the hiring of Urban Meyer as football coach, or the seven straight times he beat the Wolverines, or the fact that when he retired, the Buckeyes immediately hired away two assistants from Michigan’s staff.

Small potatoes. Now we learn the big school down the highway — in a state where if you have a Michigan license plate you better go 10 miles under the speed limit — has applied to trademark the word “the.