Michigan won by squeezing the life out of Ohio State.
Since around the turn of the century, Ohio State has dominated Michigan in The Game, college football’s most marketable and arguably most intense rivalry. Somewhere in the course of winning 15 times in 16 years, and denying Michigan any victories in Columbus, the Buckeyes cultivated not just a competitive advantage, but a psychological one. This manifested time and again on the field, when Michigan looked to have things in hand against Ohio State and then let them slip away inexplicably.
This one made two wins in a row for Michigan in the only game that matters. It was a different story than in 2021, when Michigan came out with a particular agenda and. But it seemed possible that was a one-year anomaly, and Ohio State would show up on Saturday having adjusted its plan and gotten itself into a position to nuke the Wolverines out of the College Football Playoff.
Ohio State coach Ryan Day did not manage the game well. He made a series of decisions that were defensible on their own but added up to a woefully nonaggressive effort to get his team over the top in the second half. The Buckeyes trailed by four with six minutes left in the third quarter when they faced a fourth-and-10 at the Michigan 48-yard-line. Rather than trying to get 10 yards with their Heisman Trophy candidate quarterback C.J.
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