Bob Wojnowski, John Niyo, and Angelique S. Chengelis preview the Michigan-Ohio State game from Schembechler Hall. The Detroit News
Ann Arbor — It never stopped mattering, even when it didn’t matter in the standings or the rankings. Of all the testaments to the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry, that’s perhaps the most compelling one.
Oh, it was diminished at times by the Buckeyes’ dominance and the advent of a Big Ten championship game. Occasionally diminished, never extinguished. And now, for the second time in three years, it burns as hot as ever, back to being The Game, where legacies are defined and no one’s bashful discussing how much they despise the other team.