Michigan v. Ohio State

“What?

I do not think OS can win this year, they simply do not possess the offensive power they had last year.

My god, my Purdue almost beat them.

I think the only way they can win is if MI turns the ball over.”

“Here's to hoping for a scoreless tie!”

“Michigan has their skirts ironed. Thank God, too! Will be alot easier to boink OS!”

“I didn't know they played in skirts.”

“As much as I HATE to say this...


GO BLUE!”

“Notre Dame, right smiley :o)”

“Take a glimpse inside the mind of the average OSU fan's mind. I think his dad's an OSU grad as well. Haha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS8TSFun3W8&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b”

“Twas' the week before the Big Game, and all through the Big House

80 Wolverines were crying, whilst ironing thier blouse;

7 Heisman Trophies, gleaming with care,
And the Bucks beat you again, inside your lair;

Chad Henne all nestled, all snug in his bed,
While nightmares of Buckeyes sacks concussed his thick head;
With Mike Hart failing again, an 0-4 rap,
Another college year wasted, you poor little sap;

When out on the Big House Lawn, there arouse such a clatter,
Lloyd Carr sprang from his morning tea to see what was the matter.

Away to the field, he flew like a flash,
Only to envision Beanie Wells in a 40 yard dash.
Buckeye fans mooned the wolverines, and thier ugly cheerleader ho's,
Knowing another loss to Michigan was to be reaped and sowed.

When what to Lloyd Carr's eyes did appear,
It wasn't a Big Ten Championship, let's be clear.
Super Mario to be beaten, and snapped like a stick,
While Michigan's defense won't be able to stop a lick.

Now here you read this, Wolverine fans so lame,
I'll call you loosers out, once again by name!

Now tarabull! Now Nigal! Now Sassasrass and Birch!
Hey Laqtis! Hey Nonconformist! And the rest living on Michigan dirt!

You'll be 1-6 versus Tressel, as your team takes a fall.

Now dash away, dash away, dash away all!



Go Bucks - Beat Michigan!”

“Haha! Brilliant as ever Buddha. Sadly I have to work next Saturday. It's the High Holy Day for cryin' out loud! I may call off for religious reasons. Loyd is fighting for his job this week I think.”

“Well if we gotta lose, I suppose it's not so bad to get beaten by the eventual undefeated BCs champ.

Huh?

Lost to Illinois??????

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“How'd Wisconsin do this weekend?”

“Oh how I hate, Ohio State... but Michigan is the even lower on my list....

Too bad they don't do ties any more...
Would love to see Missed-again go home with their tails between their spindly legs.... :-)”

“Go Buckeyes!!!!!!!”

“The Ohio State losers must be to embarrassed to use the football thread.”

“Nimblefoot -

Wisconsin  37

Michigan   21



Actually, the game was closer than the score indicates.  The score was 23 - 21 near the end.  

Michigan, on fourth down failed to score or make a first down twice and Wisconsin got touchdowns both times.  

last edited: 11/13/07 10:28:41 AM”

“* Michigan leads the series all time 57-40-6.

* The 2006 game was the first time that Ohio State and Michigan met ranked #1 and #2 in the country.

* Only three times in history has the matchup pitted the two against each other with perfect records on the last game of the regular season. In 1970 OSU (8-0) and Michigan (9-0) met in Columbus, with the Buckeyes winning 20-9. Ohio State went on to lose to Stanford in the Rose Bowl. Then in 1973 OSU (9-0) traveled to Ann Arbor to take on Michigan (10-0), and the game ended in a 10-10 tie. Controversially, Ohio State was selected as the Big Ten's candidate to travel to the Rose Bowl, where they defeated USC. In 2006, Ohio State and Michigan met with both having 11-0 records. Ohio State won 42-39. Three other times (1902, 1906, and 1933) the two teams met each other with perfect records in early season matchups.

* Since 1935, Ohio State and Michigan have decided the Big Ten Conference championship between themselves on 23 different occasions, including 2007.[9]

* Michigan's longest winning streak in the rivalry is nine games, from 1901-1909. Michigan also went without a loss in the first 15 games (13 wins and two ties). Ohio State's longest winning streak is four games, from 1934-1937 and 1960-1963.

* Michigan's largest victory margin was in 1902, when it won 86-0. Ohio State's largest victory margin was in 1935, when it posted a 38-0 shutout. OSU's highest point total in a game was 50, which occurred in 1961 and 1968.

* Michigan has been shut out in 11 games in the rivalry. Ohio State has been shut out 26 times. The second meeting between the schools resulted in a 0-0 tie.

* Between 1933 and 1940, the losing team was shut out every year. The teams split the meetings 4-4, with a combined winning-losing score of 206-0.

* The Ohio State Alma Mater “Carmen Ohio” was written on the train ride home to Columbus following the 1902 contest, which saw Ohio State losing to Michigan 86-0. The lyrics and melody (Spanish Chant) have remained largely unchanged since its conception.

* Other than (often) the Big Ten Championship Trophy, there is no trophy for the Michigan-Ohio State game. However, Ohio State has a separate tradition. When the Buckeyes win the game, each team member receives a pair of "Gold Pants," a small golden charm of football pants worn by football players on necklaces. This tradition was started by former coach Francis Schmidt, who remarked in 1934 about a heavily favored Michigan team "They put their pants on one leg at a time, the same as we do!"

* Participants of the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry have produced two Heisman Trophy firsts. OSU running back Archie Griffin is the only player to ever win the Heisman twice, doing so in 1974 and 1975. Michigan cornerback Charles Woodson became the first primarily defensive player to win the award in 1997.

* Ohio State fans often sing a song during rivalry games to the tune of The Old Grey Mare the words of which are "We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan...'cause we're from O-hi-o"

* In honor of the 100th meeting between the schools in 2003, US Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio proposed a resolution in the House to recognize Michigan and Ohio State as the "greatest sports rivalry in history." [10]

* In 2003, a judge in Columbus, Ohio allowed Jeff Renne, an inmate charged with forgery, to stay in a local jail so that he could watch the 100th game between OSU and Michigan. Renne told the judge that he would plead guilty as long as he could stay in jail for the weekend and watch the game before he was relocated to a prison.[11]

* In 2004, Michigan and Ohio State announced a deal with SBC Communications to sponsor their football game for the next two years for $1.06 million, to be split between the universities. The game would be dubbed the "SBC Michigan-Ohio State Classic" that year and the order of the school names would be switched the next. Advertisements were to be placed on billboards in Ohio Stadium, but not on the field or on player uniforms, nor anywhere in Michigan Stadium, where there is no commercial advertising. Fans and alumni of both schools were outraged and ultimately the deal was cancelled. The game remains unsponsored. [12]

* Following the general elections in 2006, the race in Ohio's 15th congressional district was disputed between incumbent Deborah Pryce and challenger Mary Jo Kilroy. The district delayed recounting votes until after the Michigan-Ohio State game in Columbus on November 18. [13]

* In 2006, half an hour after the Ohio State-Michigan game ended, the Ohio Lottery PICK 4 evening drawing was 4-2-3-9, matching the final score of the game and paying out up to $5,000 per winner, for a total payout of $2.2 million.[14]

* In 2006, the Ohio High School Athletic Association had to change the times of many post-season high school football games because of the Ohio State-Michigan game. [15]

* In 2006, press reports indicated that the two schools had turned down several million dollars from a broadcast network to reschedule the game from the Saturday before Thanksgiving to later in the season.

* The 2007 game will mark the first time since 1959 that both Ohio State and Michigan lost in their immediately preceding games; Michigan lost to Wisconsin, and Ohio State lost to Illinois.”

“1. Michigan vs. Ohio State
When Ohio Stadium opened in 1922, Michigan spoiled the party with a 22-0 victory. The rivalry was heated in the early days as both have been long-time college football powers. But it got even hotter in 1969, when Bo Schembechler took over as Michigan's coach and upset Woody Hayes' No. 1-ranked, undefeated Buckeyes. Four times in the next six years, both teams were ranked in the top five when they met. In 1970 and 1973, both were undefeated (they tied 10-10 in '73). From 1970 through 1975, Michigan entered without a loss every year. The Wolverines won just once. Ohio State was 9-0-1 in 1993, 11-0 in 1995 and 10-0 in 1996. The Buckeyes lost each time. That is rivalry.”

“Whereas on November 22, 2003, the Ohio State Buckeyes will visit the Michigan Wolverines at Michigan Stadium in the 100th meeting between the two football teams: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives--

(1) congratulates The Ohio State University Buckeyes and the University of Michigan Wolverines on the 100th football game of their rivalry; and

(2) recognizes The Ohio State University Buckeyes and the University of Michigan Wolverines football game as the greatest sports rivalry in history.

The 108th U.S. Congress recognizes”

“Ah, one of the only times I am a Michigan fan.”

“Go Buckeyes!!!
:)”

“I am not a big fan of Ohio State, but I did notice that their fans are nowhere nearly as obnoxious as Michigan fans (Many of whom are not even Michigan alumni.)

Looking for the Buckeyes to pop Michigan in the eye-- Bye Bye Lloyd Carr... :-D

(Can you tell I can't stand Michigan?!!!)”

“I'm never a Michigan fan....Go BUCKS!!”

“Good luck to Nigal and Buddha, though I know that cancels out. Still, it's a balancing act around here.”

“I am not a big fan of Ohio State, but I did notice that their fans are nowhere nearly as obnoxious as Michigan fans (Many of whom are not even Michigan alumni.)

WTH? LOL! Try wearing around a Michigan shirt or jacket for a while and you'll see just how high classed the Buckeye fans are. The last time I went to the Whore Shoe for a game we were pelted by beer cans and profanities.”

“I was quietly eating breakfast at the hotel in Windsor (CA) on Saturday morning, when some elderly gentleman approached me and said - "Go Buckeyes - I'm from New Hampshire, and I ran into some very rude and obnoxious Michigan fans, so I'm now rooting for Ohio State, just becaus eof that."

Great game - I hate to see LLLLLLoyd Carr go. LLLLLLoyd Carr is one of the best coaches Michigan ever had.

Buckeye nation will miss you LLLLLLoyd Carr!”

“U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-umbass) grills the chairman of the Federal Reserve about his involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis after mistaking him for U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur came to a House committee hearing on Thursday prepared to ask U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tough questions about his involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis.

Unfortunately, she was questioning the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

The Ohio Democrat, at a House of Representatives Budget Committee hearing, said she wanted to know what Wall Street firms were responsible for the securitization of subprime mortgages.

She then asked: "Seeing as how you were the former CEO of Goldman Sachs ..." But the only person testifying at the hearing interrupted.

"No, no, no, you're confusing me with the Treasury Secretary," said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

"I've got the wrong firm? Paulson, Oh, OK. Where were you sir?" Kaptur said.

Bernanke noted that he was head of the Princeton University economics department.

"Oh, Princeton, oh, all right, sorry. I got you confused with the other one ... I'm glad you clarified that for the record," she said.

Paulson was chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs before Bush tapped him to head the U.S. Treasury Department.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080117/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_usa_fed_bernanke_paulson

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OSU isn't the only loser in Ohio if you voted for this person. LOL
last edited: 1/17/08 5:11:04 PM”

“Hi Kevin!

Any sparks on the cortex yet?”

“Hi, Robin!

Any sparks in the cortex yet?”

“*bump*
for bubba”