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Ohio State’s Revamped Run Defense Has Been Waiting All Year for “The Game”

Now in his eighth season back in Ann Arbor, the former Wolverine QB has put his imprint on the greatest rivalry in sports. Not only did he finally break Ohio State's near decade-long win streak last season, but he did it his way.

Though the former QB is often associated with the development of Andrew Luck at Stanford and later, Colin Kapernick in San Fransisco, it has always been a physical run game that has propelled his team to their greatest heights. While Luck may have been under center when the Cardinal went 12-1 and won the Orange Bowl to cap off the 2010 season, it was the emergence of tailback Toby Gerhart and a trio of All-American offensive linemen the year before that brought the program back to national prominence, mauling opponents with a brutal style that relied on physicality at a time when the sport was becoming more spread out.