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Inside Rivalry Week: Keys to Michigan-Ohio State, Oklahoma-Oklahoma State, clinching scenarios and more

Two things are inevitably true about losing streaks:

1. They feel like they're never going to end.
2. They end.

By the time they kick off on Saturday, it will have been 3,654 and 2,548 days, respectively, since Michigan defeated Ohio State and Oklahoma State defeated Oklahoma. In the past 18 years, the Wolverines have only taken down their biggest rivals once; the Cowboys twice.

Now would be a particularly good time to end these streaks. The Michigan-Ohio State game winner will find itself one win from the College Football Playoff, and while Saturday night's Bedlam winner will need a little bit of help to reach the top four, they could get awfully close.