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Greatest rivalry in college football, dating back to 1897
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00:01You know that feeling that you got in the pity of stomach the night before Christmas?
00:11Now times it by a million.
00:18It's Michigan versus Ohio State. It's a war.
00:25It's been going on for a hundred years.
00:32The maize in blue versus the scarlet in gray.
00:35Good versus evil.
00:36Ohio State being the bad guys.
00:38Michigan people are to be liked.
00:40Go blue.
00:42This game makes or breaks the season.
00:45Hardcore smash-mouth football.
00:47That's where I learn hatred.
00:54What's at stake?
00:55Bragging rights.
00:56Bragging rights.
00:57Bragging rights.
00:57Bragging rights.
00:58If you're able to win this game, you're buying peace.
01:01You lose 365 days of pain.
01:05You've got to win the battle.
01:07All hell will break up.
01:14That's an intro.
01:22Every year on the third Saturday in November, amidst a Midwestern haze and the rustle of autumn leaves, the Michigan
01:30Wolverines and the Ohio State Buckeyes meet for a football game.
01:35Twelve months of feverish.
01:37Twelve months of fevered anticipation are played out on a frosted green canvas on which strokes of maize and blue
01:43clash with scarlet and gray.
01:46Separated by less than 200 miles of heartland, these uneasy neighbors engage in one of the oldest and most deeply
01:53rooted rivalries in American sports.
01:56Predating baseball's first world series by six years and the existence of the NFL by a quarter century.
02:04They're tearing down Michigan's providence and claw banner.
02:30They're tearing down Michigan's providence and claw banner.
02:32and a shot at a national title frequently at stake.
02:41But even in a downbeat,
02:43a chance to play spoiler to one's foe
02:45can be equally satisfied,
02:47turning a lost season into one of lasting triumph.
02:55For a sacred ten-year period,
02:58two combative men inflamed this bitter rivalry
03:01while becoming folk heroes along the way.
03:05And for the players,
03:07who carry the weight of tradition on their shoulder pads,
03:10the results of these games forever define their legacy.
03:27Each university is steeped in proud custom.
03:31And for those to the north
03:32who have claimed to the winningest program in Division I history,
03:36tradition leads back to one man,
03:39a turn-of-the-century coach
03:40who made football an institution in Ann Arbor,
03:43the legendary Fielding Yost.
03:47This train lands here in 1901.
03:49He runs into an Ann Arbor News reporter
03:50who asks him about the coming season.
03:52And he says Michigan will not lose a game all year.
03:55And they didn't in 1901, 1902, 1903, and 1904.
04:00Michigan truly was the champion of the West.
04:05Hey, you know how good you had to be to do that?
04:09In the early years,
04:10during the first 15 games between Ohio State and Michigan,
04:14Ohio State won none of those games.
04:16Fielding Yost's Michigan team in 1902
04:18defeated Ohio State 86-0.
04:22Even worse from the Ohio State standpoint
04:23is that game was called about halfway through the second half.
04:27The official simply brought the teams together
04:29and said, fellas, it's 86-0.
04:31I think we've probably had about enough.
04:32And it wasn't until the 16th game of the series,
04:36which was 1919,
04:37that Ohio State finally was able to beat Michigan.
04:40And the guy that put Ohio State on the national map
04:43was Chick Harley.
04:45With only a single loss in three seasons,
04:48All-American Chick Harley
04:49brought the Buckeye program to national prominence
04:52and inspired the construction of Ohio Stadium,
04:55which opened in 1922
04:57with a unique horseshoe design.
05:00While Ohioans were still admirably living off the land,
05:04Michigan's burgeoning automobile industry
05:06provided the state with newfound wealth and stature.
05:11By the time Michigan Stadium was completed in 1927,
05:16the state's social and economic upturn
05:18was reflected in the university's growth
05:20into one of the country's premier learning institutions.
05:25And with the advances of the 20th century
05:27came an aura of elitism amongst Michiganites.
05:33On the football field,
05:35the Wolverines continued to manufacture championships
05:37with assembly line proficiency.
05:40By 1933, Michigan had won eight national titles
05:43and had taken nine of its last 12 against Ohio State.
05:46The latest era began with the prolific Benny-to-Bennie connection
05:51of quarterback Benny Friedman and receiver Benny Oosterbond.
05:54I know Benny Friedman, but he's...
05:56Later included Grand Rapids-raised future U.S. President Gerald Ford.
06:01I know it.
06:02The team from Ann Arbor seemed cut from a superior cloth.
06:06But in 1934, OSU's incoming coach, Francis Schmidt,
06:11broke through the mystique.
06:13When he was interviewed about the job,
06:14they were asking him,
06:16how are you going to beat Michigan?
06:18And he looked them right in the eye and he said,
06:20just remember they put their pants on the same way we do,
06:23one leg at a time.
06:24So when Ohio State beat them,
06:25they started the gold pants tradition.
06:27And ever since 1934,
06:29whenever Ohio State defeats Michigan,
06:30all the players and coaches get little replica gold pants.
06:35And that represents two of the final moments in my life.
06:41I have several of those pants myself.
06:45I don't mention that around here.
06:48Gold pants were immediately in style
06:51as Ohio State thoroughly dominated the next four meetings,
06:54outscoring Michigan 114 to nothing.
06:58Hoping to reverse this unsettling trend,
07:00Michigan ushered in a new coach from the Ivy League
07:04who made his own sartorial impact.
07:07Michigan's new coach in 1938, Fritz Chrysler,
07:10had come from Princeton,
07:11and he created the winged helmet of Maize and Blue.
07:17It was done for two reasons.
07:18First, to dress up the helmet,
07:20because until then,
07:21Michigan just wore a plain old black leather helmet.
07:25But the second reason was,
07:27he wanted to have the passers be able to spot the receivers better.
07:32In truth, no one needed a winged helmet to spot the ubiquitous Tom Harmon.
07:38In the 1940 meeting in Columbus,
07:40Harmon rushed for three scores,
07:42passed for two more,
07:44and intercepted three passes for good measure.
07:48Leading to a 40 to nothing Michigan win,
07:50and a standing ovation from the Buckeye faithful.
07:55Michigan added two more titles in 47 and 48,
07:59and held a decisive lead in the rivalry by the half-century mark.
08:03But despite winning just 12 of the first 46 meetings,
08:07Ohio State was a heavy favorite in 1950,
08:10in what became the most fabled contest in the game's history.
08:15On Friday the night before the game,
08:17we went downtown to the Deshawalloch Hotel,
08:19about 9.30, 10 o'clock, and everybody went to bed.
08:22But it was the next morning that was shocking.
08:29It was a blizzard.
08:32It was snowing big time.
08:34It was blowing big time.
08:37And it was about three above.
08:3850,000 fans showed up.
08:42In snow-swept Columbus, Ohio,
08:44a busy crew of snow shovelers worked through the night
08:46preparing the gridiron for the long-awaited clash
08:48between Michigan and Ohio State.
08:56You'd be running,
08:57and all of a sudden, you'd hit an icy spot.
09:00And your feet would go right up from under you,
09:02and you'd fall flat on your face.
09:05Hey, I can't see you.
09:07I sort of laid there in the snow,
09:08and I thought, I'm going to be left here to die.
09:12It's maybe the most unusual college football play.
09:16There were 45 punts in that game.
09:22I punted the ball 24 times.
09:25We must have punted on first down 10 times,
09:28and I could not see their defensive backfield.
09:32With little visibility and unforgiving wins,
09:36the snowball turned into a game of hot potato.
09:39With each team punting the ball back
09:41in hopes the other side would make a mistake.
09:44The Buckeyes capitalized first
09:46by turning a blocked punt into a field goal
09:48by Heisman Trophy winner Dick Janowitz.
09:53A safety by the Wolverines made the score 3-2.
09:56With under a minute left in the first half
09:59and a chance to run out the clock
10:01and retain a halftime lead,
10:03Ohio State coach Wes Fessler
10:04sent out his punter instead.
10:08Tony Mocs in the center for Michigan
10:10went through and blocked Janowitz's punt,
10:14fell on the ball in the end zone
10:15for the game's only touchdown.
10:17Michigan won that game 9-3
10:20without registering a single first down.
10:23And the field runs into a pendulum
10:25of overjoyed Wolverine Reuters.
10:27It's a great victory for Michigan.
10:29Fessler never coaches another day
10:31at Ohio State.
10:33He's out.
10:35The Wolverines escaped Columbus
10:37and made an unplanned trip to the Rose Bowl.
10:41With snowdrifts reaching...
10:44Lost on your own home field advantage.
10:47In 25...
10:48The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950
10:51claimed the lives of dozens of Ohioans
10:54and the job of yet another Buckeyes coach.
10:58Ohio State had long been considered
11:00the graveyard of coaches
11:01and the program's search for its 19th field general
11:05and its 6th in 12 seasons
11:07yielded the uninspiring name
11:09Wayne Woodrow Hayes.
11:11What he was he was called
11:12had led impressive teams
11:14at Denison University
11:15and Miami of Ohio.
11:17But after three unremarkable seasons
11:19in Columbus,
11:20which included two shutout losses to Michigan,
11:23it appeared Hayes' tenure
11:24would last only as long as it took
11:26to dig another grave.
11:28But in 1954,
11:30a funny thing happened
11:31on the way to the funeral.
11:33The turning point in that season
11:35is the fourth quarter of the Michigan game.
11:37Michigan comes to town
11:39under Coach Benny Oosterbond
11:40and they take the opening kickoff
11:42and they drive the length of the field.
11:44The Buckeyes, right before halftime,
11:46tie the score 7-7.
11:47The third quarter is scoreless,
11:49but as play opens up in the fourth quarter...
11:52We took the ball down
11:53all the way to the one-yard line
11:55and we had four shots at it.
11:57Michigan then rams that Ohio State line
11:59trying to get into the end zone
12:01and falls short.
12:02We had them on the ropes.
12:04Man, it was awful.
12:06That goal line stand
12:08at the south end of Ohio Stadium
12:09in the 1954 Michigan game
12:11was truly the turning point
12:12in Woody Hayes' career.
12:14Spurred by the defense,
12:15Buckeye great Howard hop-along Cassidy
12:17led OSU to a 21-7 victory,
12:20propelling the scarlet and gray
12:22to a surprising undefeated season
12:24in the 1954 National Championship.
12:28Beginning in 1954,
12:30Woody's Buckeyes won 11 of 15
12:32against the Wolverines
12:33and were crowned national champions again
12:35in 57 and 61.
12:40Woody Hayes had finally jammed a wedge
12:42in the revolving coaching door
12:44at Ohio State.
12:46More military tactician
12:47than X's and O's strategist,
12:49Hayes won with a brick-and-mortar approach,
12:53shunning the pass
12:54for three yards in a cloud of dust.
12:58In fact,
12:59Hayes' teams might have been called dull
13:01if not for the man himself.
13:04I saw this older guy,
13:05real mild-mannered guy,
13:07and I didn't know
13:08he was General Patton in disguise.
13:10He's the guy you gotta hit him!
13:12You rush your butt off!
13:13Get off the field!
13:14He's the meanest sucker you've ever seen.
13:16I'll be a goddamn son of a bitch.
13:19You come bigger!
13:20Blizzard!
13:20In practice,
13:22he would get so upset...
13:24For God's sake!
13:25...that there was a fumble
13:26or there was an interception
13:28that he would bite his hand
13:30until it bled.
13:31He used to throw his hat down
13:32to stop it,
13:33and then he would grab the hat
13:34and just tear it apart.
13:35Snap his glasses.
13:37He took the watch off,
13:38threw the watch down,
13:40jumped up and down on that.
13:42He looked like a raving madman.
13:44Oh, God damn him!
13:46Oh, well, shit!
13:46Woody Hayes once said,
13:48show me a gracious loser
13:49and I'll show you a busboy.
13:51You're damn right!
13:52If anybody gives you a compliment,
13:54kick him right in the shins
13:55unless it's a lady over 80.
13:58I'll tell you what,
13:59when you're out in practice field
14:00and you see that kind of emotion
14:01and intensity...
14:02Hell, there's no question.
14:03Go away!
14:04Everyone's game and elephants.
14:06Get the fuck!
14:07Get the fuck!
14:08Take the fuck!
14:09Well, my grandma's
14:11about to have her 79th birthday.
14:15So, uh...
14:17One more year,
14:19she better watch her shins.
14:21This is the last year I get to do it.
14:26Nobody would ever outwork her.
14:30When we came in on summer practice
14:32at 7 in the morning,
14:33he was passed out on a couch
14:35at the facility
14:36and the projector was still gone.
14:41He fell asleep watching film
14:43and he'd hear us and get up,
14:44get a shower,
14:45and go right back to work.
14:48Hayes' unflinching dedication
14:49and tyrannical temper
14:51were legendary,
14:53as was his disdain
14:54for the maize and blue.
14:56He would never refer
14:57to Michigan by name.
14:58Anytime he referred
14:59to the University of Michigan,
15:00it was always
15:01that team up north.
15:03They were recruiting
15:04a kid in Michigan
15:05and as they were going south,
15:07they actually ran out of gas.
15:09He said that he would
15:10push his car
15:11across the state line
15:12before he would buy
15:14any gasoline
15:14in the state of Michigan.
15:17Woody Hayes
15:17was everything we loved.
15:22I did not like Woody Hayes.
15:23I didn't like anything
15:24about Woody Hayes.
15:25You know something?
15:26I couldn't care less
15:27about that.
15:29It all stems
15:30from my father's
15:31incredible distaste
15:32for his arrogance.
15:34I don't think the players
15:35are worried about it
15:36any more than I am.
15:37If I had to pick
15:37one evil force in my life
15:39growing up as a grade school
15:40student here in Ann Arbor,
15:41it should be Regnever somebody.
15:43It was Woody Hayes.
15:47If there was any question
15:48that Hayes reveled
15:49in the enmity of his foes,
15:51the 1968 encounter
15:52left no doubt.
15:54It was a close ball game.
15:55It was 14-14.
15:56And then all of a sudden,
15:58bingo.
15:59We got shellacked.
16:05Is this game ever going to end?
16:07We couldn't stop them.
16:09And we couldn't do anything
16:10against them.
16:12And Woody showed no mercy.
16:15Ohio State just exploded
16:17in the second half
16:17and ended up winning
16:19that game 50-14.
16:21A lot of the Michigan players
16:22were pretty upset
16:23at the end of the game
16:24because after Jim Otis
16:26had scored his fourth touchdown,
16:31Woody Hayes sent the offense
16:32back on the field
16:33for a two-point conversion.
16:36And that was just
16:37to rub it in.
16:38That was just
16:39to stick it in our face.
16:42In the dressing room
16:43after the game,
16:44and one of the sports writers
16:45was asking Woody Hayes,
16:46hey, you were up by 36 points,
16:48the game's almost over,
16:50why would you go for two?
16:51Because he couldn't go for three.
16:53Because they wouldn't let me go for three.
16:56Columbus was abuzz
16:58with Buckeye fever
16:59as Ohio State
17:00followed its win over Michigan
17:01by beating O.J. Simpson's USC Trojans
17:04in the Rose Bowl.
17:05The Bucs' fourth national title
17:07under Woody Hayes
17:08was salt in the wound
17:09of Wolverine fans
17:10who were experiencing
17:12something unfamiliar
17:13from their beloved program,
17:16mediocrity.
17:17A losing record
17:18over ten previous seasons
17:20had turned a once-packed big house
17:22into a cavernous memorial
17:24to past U.M. glory.
17:26People cared about Michigan football
17:28but had felt
17:29that it had sort of
17:30fallen on hard times.
17:32You could go up
17:32to the ticket counter
17:33and buy a ticket
17:33and walk on in
17:34and there were many times
17:36when I'd sit down
17:36in the end zone
17:37as a high school student
17:38and they'd be half empty.
17:441951, 1968,
17:45Michigan wins exactly
17:46one Big Ten title
17:48over an 18-year period.
17:49It's barely a rivalry there
17:50for a while.
17:52That all changed in 1969.
17:57The headline
17:58in the Detroit newspaper
18:00said Bo-Hoo.
18:02Bo-Hoo.
18:03Bo-Hoo?
18:04Bo-Hoo.
18:05Bo Schembechler.
18:06Glenn Schembechler
18:07got the nickname Bo
18:08from his little sister's
18:09attempts to say brother
18:10when they were young.
18:11Almost everything else
18:12he got from Woody Hayes.
18:15The Barberton, Ohio native
18:16and son of a fireman
18:17was an offensive tackle
18:19at Miami of Ohio
18:20during Hayes' tenure
18:21as Redskins coach.
18:23Beginning in 1958,
18:25Schembechler studied
18:26under Hayes for five seasons
18:28as a Buckeye assistant.
18:29The lessons paid off
18:31during six winning seasons
18:32as head coach
18:33of his alma mater,
18:34Miami.
18:36Despite his success,
18:37Michigan fans were left
18:38to wonder how a coach
18:39with such unnerving ties
18:40to the enemy
18:41could recapture
18:42the program's
18:43once proud tradition.
18:45Then again,
18:46few are as keenly aware
18:48of Wolverine lore
18:49as a Buckeye.
18:51Michigan was not
18:51Michigan at that time.
18:53Michigan had a debt
18:53of a quarter million bucks.
18:55The facilities were a mess.
18:56They had rickety old
18:57wooden chairs.
18:57They got dressed
18:58in the second floor
18:59of the basketball arena
19:00at the time.
19:01They hung their hats
19:02on rusty nails
19:03and two by fours
19:04bolted into the wall.
19:05We walked into
19:06the locker room
19:06that would supposedly
19:07be our dressing room
19:08here at Michigan
19:09and looked up there
19:11and saw the nail
19:11on the wall.
19:13And we started complaining
19:14we had better facilities
19:16at Miami
19:16and this natin' bosal.
19:18Better stuff at Miami.
19:19Gentlemen,
19:20see that rickety seat
19:21right there?
19:21Fielding Yost
19:22sat down in that seat.
19:23You see that
19:24rusting nail right there?
19:25Fielding Yost
19:25hung his hat
19:26on that rusting nail.
19:27We've got tradition here,
19:29Michigan tradition,
19:29and that's something
19:30no one else has.
19:31The first task
19:32was to get their attention
19:33and he got it right away.
19:34He said,
19:35I will treat you
19:36all the same
19:36like dogs.
19:46He was the Tasmanian devil
19:50that came into town
19:51in a whirlwind of dust
19:53and we were left in his wake.
19:54He worked us to death.
19:58He had about 140,
19:59150 guys on the team
20:01when he took over.
20:02Every day,
20:03three or four people
20:04were leaving.
20:04We just waved at them
20:05on their way out the door.
20:06The guys were quitting
20:07left and right.
20:08At the end of spring practice,
20:10he's down to about
20:1075 or 80.
20:12In the locker room,
20:13Bo had put up a sign
20:14that said,
20:15those who stay
20:16will be champions.
20:18Those who stay
20:20will be champions.
20:21It is still the mantra
20:22by which every
20:23Michigan football player
20:24lives because that sign
20:25still hangs in the locker room.
20:27It was Bo's sign.
20:28When he came in,
20:28he knew the team
20:29he had to beat
20:30was Ohio State.
20:31Ohio State was the scourge
20:32of the Big Ten,
20:33the scourge of the country.
20:34Ohio State is undefeated.
20:36They are their returning
20:37national champions.
20:38Sports Illustrated said
20:39they were so good.
20:40The only game worth watching
20:41right now in college football
20:42is Ohio State's offense
20:43versus their defense
20:44in full pad practice
20:46on Tuesday in Columbus.
20:47They were that of a power.
20:50200 miles to the north,
20:52those who stayed
20:53got off to an unspectacular
20:553-2 start.
20:58But four straight wins,
21:00which they outscored
21:01their opponents
21:02178-22,
21:04raised the Wolverines' confidence
21:05going into their season-ending
21:07matchup with the mighty Buckeyes.
21:09A game they had been
21:10thirsting for
21:11since Woody went for two.
21:13We had a great week
21:14of practice
21:15because we were all
21:17motivated by what Woody
21:18had done the previous year.
21:21Bo made every player
21:22on the team practice
21:23where the sign taped
21:24to his helmet
21:25that said 50-14.
21:27The score was posted
21:28all over the locker room.
21:30And I made sure
21:31they didn't forget it.
21:33Every demonstration player
21:35that was playing
21:37against our first
21:38and second team
21:39getting ready for that game
21:40wore the number 50.
21:43Everybody was 50.
21:45That was embedded
21:46in the minds of these guys.
21:48That embarrassment
21:49was not going to last long.
21:53103,588 fans
21:55at the Michigan Stadium
21:56in Ann Arbor.
22:00I walked up
22:01to the press box.
22:03A guy jumps out
22:03and grabs me
22:04and shakes me
22:05and says,
22:06we're going to
22:06beat your ass today, buddy.
22:08The head coach
22:09of Ohio State,
22:10Woody Hayes.
22:13I'm 11 and a half years old.
22:15I remember
22:15like elbowing my dad
22:17and saying,
22:17Dad, you know,
22:17Woody can't hear you.
22:19We're in the 50th row.
22:23Osu, a 17-point favorite,
22:25led early.
22:28But Michigan struck back
22:29with two Garvey-Craw touchdowns,
22:31the second set up
22:32by Billy Taylor's
22:33electrifying run.
22:37Then an unheralded senior
22:39from tiny St. Ignace,
22:40Michigan,
22:41got a hold of the ball.
22:46He's running away from us.
22:47We're in the end zone.
22:48I remember him just running
22:49and we're kind of like
22:49pushing him, you know,
22:50like, go, go.
22:51He's got a man
22:52moving for him,
22:53cuts to the 10,
22:54and is down
22:55on the four-yard line.
22:57Barry Pearson's
22:5860-yard return
22:59set up another score.
23:01The Wolverines
23:01held a 24-12 lead
23:03at the half.
23:04The first time
23:05all season
23:06that Ohio State
23:07trailed at intermission.
23:08It only got worse
23:11as Michigan's
23:12impenetrable defense
23:13snapped Ohio State's
23:1422-game win streak
23:16and secured
23:17the biggest upset
23:18in the history
23:18of the rivalry.
23:21They played
23:22a flawless
23:24football game.
23:25I swore
23:26Bo was in the huddle.
23:27It is intercepted
23:28by Michigan's
23:29Barry Pearson.
23:30Woody was befuddled
23:31that day.
23:32Bo Schoenbeckler,
23:33the student,
23:34outcoached
23:35the teacher.
23:36It was not a fluke.
23:38Michigan just flat out
23:39kicked their ass
23:39that day.
23:40Four,
23:41three,
23:42two,
23:43one.
23:43They got
23:44Schoenbeckler
23:44on the track.
23:46And the crowd
23:46go wide.
23:48Michigan
23:48that says Ohio State
23:49were able to knock
23:51the final score.
23:53Reckley couldn't have
23:53made it any better
23:54than this.
23:55Michigan 24,
23:57Ohio State 12.
23:58There's an expression
23:59in German called
24:00Schadenfreude,
24:02which means
24:03joy in the misery
24:04of others.
24:06Forty years later,
24:07I feel
24:08Schadenfreude.
24:10Joy
24:11that it still hurts
24:12the Buckeyes,
24:13what we did
24:14on that fateful
24:14November day
24:15in 1969.
24:22That game
24:23kind of
24:24set it off.
24:26Woody was
24:27crushed
24:28and his
24:29greatest team
24:30would be
24:31beaten.
24:34When Ohio State
24:35got back
24:36from that huge
24:37loss at Ann Arbor
24:38in 1969,
24:38Woody Hayes
24:39went right to
24:40his office
24:40and began
24:41working that
24:42night on
24:42the 1970 game.
24:44Hayes had a
24:44huge rug made
24:46that he put
24:47outside the
24:47Ohio State
24:48dressing room
24:48that the players
24:49had to walk
24:50over as they
24:50went out to
24:51practice every
24:52day in the
24:52springtime.
24:53And that rug
24:54said Michigan
24:5524,
24:56Ohio State 12.
24:58We walked
24:59across that
24:59damn rug
25:00every day.
25:04I still have
25:04the bumper
25:05sticker saying
25:06remember Ann Arbor.
25:07Cars would have
25:07them on the
25:08back if you
25:08drive around.
25:09I mean,
25:09it was just
25:10amazing.
25:10When we got
25:11off that bus
25:11in Columbus,
25:12man,
25:12they were
25:13ready for us.
25:14There were
25:14signs on
25:15these dormitories.
25:18They were
25:18not G-rated.
25:21Woody was
25:22as tight
25:22as a drum.
25:23Don't you
25:24know who
25:24we play
25:24this week?
25:25Don't you
25:26know who
25:26it is?
25:27My God,
25:28it's
25:29Michigan,
25:30it's
25:31Michigan.
25:32And he's
25:32crying and
25:34tears are
25:34coming down
25:35his cheeks.
25:36And I
25:36thought,
25:36whoa,
25:37boy,
25:38the old
25:38man has
25:38really lost
25:39it.
25:39He's using
25:40Michigan and
25:41he's using
25:41it repetitively.
25:44The 70th
25:45battle in
25:46Columbus was
25:47a combination
25:48of all our
25:49frustrations that
25:50whole year.
25:51And it wasn't
25:52going to be
25:52pretty.
25:54Out for
25:55blood,
25:55Ohio State
25:56disposed of
25:57Michigan 20
25:58to 9.
25:59Fanning the
26:00flames of
26:01animosity
26:01between the
26:02schools were
26:03two men who
26:03booted over
26:04the game with
26:05an angst that
26:05permeated through
26:06their programs
26:07and the regions
26:08as a whole.
26:09For the
26:10remainder of
26:11the decade,
26:12the regular
26:12season was
26:13mere window
26:13dressing for
26:14this annual
26:15year-end
26:15clash, a
26:17period remembered
26:17as the
26:1810-year war.
26:20It became
26:20more real
26:21and it became
26:23more serious.
26:24And you
26:25spent your
26:25whole year,
26:26you spent
26:26your whole
26:27off-season
26:27getting ready
26:28for that
26:29one game.
26:30We thought of
26:30this one more
26:31than we have
26:31the rest of
26:32the season
26:32put together.
26:33When he brought
26:33his team up
26:34here, he would
26:35tell one of
26:35his assistants,
26:36he said,
26:37would you please
26:37tell Coach
26:38Jim Begler that
26:40I'm ready to
26:40meet him at the
26:4150-yard line?
26:42he would not
26:43cross the 50-yard line?
26:45And so I'd
26:45shake hands and
26:46cross the 50-yard line?
26:47I would,
26:47I would,
26:49and that was
26:49it.
26:51For 10 years.
26:52I want to
26:52beat him,
26:53he's no friend
26:53of mine.
26:55The one thing
26:55that he said
26:56that really
26:56stuck out with
26:57me is he
26:58said,
26:58this is more
26:59than a game,
27:00this is a war.
27:04Everything
27:04happens,
27:05you've got it
27:05all.
27:06Intrigue,
27:07injustice,
27:08devastation.
27:09You can go
27:09straight to
27:10hell.
27:10Every storyline
27:11possible.
27:13Coach Jim Begler
27:13has to be
27:14restrained.
27:15Woody Hayes
27:16is furious.
27:18He is breathing.
27:19He just ripped
27:19up the downs
27:20marker.
27:21I mean,
27:21who does
27:22that?
27:22Woody Hayes
27:23did that.
27:24A 10-7
27:25Michigan victory
27:26in 1971
27:27is the first
27:28in a series
27:29of blood-boiling
27:30close calls.
27:31In 1972,
27:33a defiant
27:33Schembechler
27:34twice passed
27:34up easy field
27:35goals,
27:36only to twice
27:37be denied
27:37at the goal
27:38line.
27:39Resulting
27:39in a 14-11
27:40Ohio State
27:41win.
27:43Wow,
27:43that sounds
27:44so good.
27:44Both schools
27:44entered the
27:451973 matchup
27:46undefeated.
27:47The fourth-ranked
27:48Wolverines
27:49played the top-ranked
27:50Buckeyes
27:51to a 10-10
27:51time.
27:53Statistically,
27:54it sounds like
27:54a lot of this
27:55is just the
27:56home team
27:56being better.
27:58Michigan
27:59dominated
27:59and fully
28:00expected a trip
28:01to the Rose Bowl.
28:02But a vote
28:03by Big Ten
28:04Athletic Directors
28:05sent Ohio State
28:06instead.
28:07What?
28:07The slight
28:08infuriated
28:09Schembechler.
28:10Assisted,
28:11his team
28:11was robbed.
28:12This is the
28:13lowest day
28:14in my athletic
28:14career,
28:15either as a
28:15player or a
28:16coach,
28:16because I am
28:17bitterly resentful
28:18of the way
28:19the wide kick
28:19as time expired
28:20on the 74
28:21showdown
28:22left Michigan
28:22with a two-point
28:23loss.
28:28It concluded
28:29an excruciating
28:30three-year
28:31stretch for the
28:31Wolverines,
28:32in which they
28:33won every one
28:34of their games
28:35except for those
28:37against the
28:37Buckeyes.
28:38But Arch,
28:39I felt you had
28:40another great
28:40day today,
28:41and he'd rather
28:42have that victory
28:43than all those
28:4431 games put
28:45together.
28:45Isn't that right?
28:48A local high school
28:49legend,
28:50raised in the
28:51shadows of the
28:51horseshoe,
28:52Archie Griffin
28:53rushed for over
28:545,500 yards
28:55in his four seasons
28:56as a Buckeye.
29:01And despite
29:02being college
29:02football's only
29:03two-time
29:04Heisman Trophy
29:05winner,
29:05he regards his
29:06three gold pants
29:07as his most
29:08satisfying awards.
29:12His last pair
29:13came in 1975,
29:15which gave
29:16the Buckeyes
29:16a 4-2-1
29:17advantage
29:18in the
29:18Ten-Year War.
29:21The rivalry
29:21reached the
29:22national stage,
29:23and tensions
29:24between the
29:25coaches spiraled
29:26from Midwestern
29:27machismo
29:27to Cold War
29:28paranoia.
29:32He stopped
29:33practice and
29:34he said,
29:34men,
29:35you see those
29:35two guys,
29:36those are
29:36police.
29:37I hired
29:38them.
29:38Bo,
29:39was trying
29:39to watch
29:40our practices.
29:41Never forget
29:42the year that
29:42Bo brought
29:43the police in
29:44and went to
29:45one of the
29:46apartments across
29:47the way and
29:48found a guy
29:48shooting a
29:49video camera
29:50over the top
29:51of the wall
29:52at their
29:53practice and
29:53thought he was
29:54a spy from
29:54Ohio State.
29:55Are the
29:56elements of
29:57my strategy
29:58all safe?
29:59How's the
29:59field going
30:00to be cut?
30:01Who's it
30:01going to
30:02favor him?
30:02Woody was
30:03convinced one
30:04year that
30:05Michigan had
30:06a new shoe
30:06specifically made
30:08so that if
30:09the field
30:10were slippery
30:11Michigan would
30:11have better
30:12grip and
30:13Woody tried
30:14like crazy
30:15to find out
30:16so he could
30:17order something.
30:18There was no
30:18secret shoe.
30:20The week we were
30:21playing Michigan
30:22at Michigan
30:23my senior year
30:23we were having
30:24our pregame meal.
30:26The ladies that
30:27were serving us
30:27were all nice
30:29looking ladies.
30:30I mean nice
30:30looking ladies,
30:31college students.
30:32And all of a
30:32sudden we heard
30:33that clank.
30:35he hit the
30:36wine glass
30:37with a fork
30:38and he
30:39starts screaming
30:41I want all
30:42of these
30:43waitresses out
30:44of here
30:44I want the
30:44cooks to
30:45serve my
30:45men.
30:46And we're
30:47looking around
30:48and what?
30:48And then he
30:48stood up and
30:49said Bo planted
30:50them there to
30:51distract us.
30:52Yeah, Bo
30:53infiltrated our
30:54lunchroom.
30:54He goes,
30:55we'll have none
30:55of that.
30:58Their ongoing
30:58feud further
31:00provoked fan
31:01partisanship
31:01between the
31:02states.
31:06a fanaticism
31:07reinforced to
31:08this day
31:08by the
31:09colliding
31:09cultures of
31:10each side.
31:13This is not
31:14just a rivalry
31:14between two
31:15football teams.
31:16This is a
31:17rivalry between
31:18two ways of
31:19life.
31:20This is
31:20scarlet red
31:21versus
31:22maize and
31:23blue.
31:23This is a
31:25battle between
31:26goodness and
31:27evil.
31:33Michigan
31:34represents the
31:34good.
31:35You are a
31:36Michigan man.
31:37You stand
31:37for something
31:38excellent.
31:39You stand
31:39for tradition,
31:40respect,
31:41integrity.
31:41When you
31:42talk about a
31:43Michigan fan,
31:44you are
31:45talking about
31:45Satan in
31:46carne.
31:48Makes me sick
31:49even to say
31:50the name of
31:50their state.
31:51We're very
31:52proud of the
31:52Wolverine and
31:53we know that
31:54the Ohio State
31:55people have
31:56the Buckeye.
31:57I'm not.
31:58And we
31:59also know
32:00that the
32:00Buckeye is
32:01a hairless
32:02nut.
32:04Have you
32:04been to
32:05Michigan?
32:05The entire
32:06state smells
32:07like hot dog
32:07water.
32:08It's horrifying.
32:10We don't pay
32:10a lot of
32:11attention.
32:11Hold on.
32:13How do you
32:14get to
32:14Michigan?
32:16In a
32:17car?
32:20Who gave
32:20you those
32:21cars?
32:23I'm just
32:23saying.
32:24To the fans
32:24from Ohio State
32:25as far as
32:26I remember.
32:28We like
32:28to think
32:28we're a
32:29little higher
32:29educated.
32:30They call us
32:30the arrogant
32:30asses as
32:31a result.
32:31AA is for
32:32arrogant asses
32:33not Ann
32:33Arbor.
32:33We consider
32:34them just
32:35slightly
32:35redneckish.
32:36Go Bucs!
32:39University of
32:39Michigan always
32:40has been a
32:41hell of a
32:41school.
32:45It's a
32:46first rate
32:47academic
32:47school.
32:48Face it.
32:49Michigan
32:50goes with
32:50a career
32:50to Ohio
32:51State and
32:51remains
32:52superior.
32:54We had a
32:55Michigan guy
32:55flunk out
32:56of Michigan
32:57and then
32:57he enrolled
32:58at Ohio
32:58State and
32:59he raised
33:00a class
33:00standing at
33:01both
33:01universities
33:02when he
33:02did that.
33:06I'm a
33:06Michigan
33:07graduate.
33:07You're an
33:08Ohio State
33:08graduate.
33:09You're lucky
33:09you're not
33:09flipping burgers
33:10someplace.
33:11You ain't
33:12nothing but a
33:13bunch of
33:13pretend wannabe
33:14crybaby
33:15suckasses.
33:17We've looked
33:18down our
33:18noses at
33:19Ohio State.
33:22You know why
33:23their noses are
33:24in the air?
33:24Because we
33:25have kicked
33:25their asses
33:26so far up
33:26into the air
33:27they can't
33:28get their
33:28damn noses
33:29back down
33:29straight again.
33:31Fuck Michigan,
33:32excuse me.
33:33Michigan has a
33:34great spirited
33:35fan base.
33:36And Ohio State
33:37has a great
33:37spirited fan base
33:38with violence,
33:39lunatic,
33:40sociopathic
33:40fringe attached
33:41to it.
33:50and I'm
33:51embarrassed
33:51by anything
33:52that loud
33:52obnoxious.
34:01We are in
34:02the city of
34:04Columbus on the
34:04campus of
34:05the Ohio State
34:07University.
34:23People here
34:23are required
34:25by law to
34:25do that
34:26thing that
34:27they just
34:27did and
34:28also apparently
34:29to own five
34:30red hooded
34:31sweatshirts
34:31each.
34:32We're from
34:34Ohio.
34:35O-H!
34:36We're from
34:37Ohio.
34:39I-O!
34:40We don't give a
34:41damn for the
34:42whole state of
34:43Michigan.
34:44We're from
34:45Ohio.
34:48Go Buckeyes!
34:55Look, since
34:55when is being
34:56passionate about
34:57something bad?
34:59Ohio State fans
35:00can seem like
35:01they're a little
35:02crazy on the
35:02outside.
35:07But for
35:08better or worse,
35:08this is who we
35:09are.
35:09This is what we
35:10get behind.
35:11We get behind
35:11our Buckeyes
35:12and this whole
35:12town lives and
35:13breathes and
35:14dies Ohio State
35:15footballing.
35:21From the time
35:22I was six years
35:23old, I only
35:24missed one Ohio
35:25State football
35:26game until I
35:26was 20.
35:29That's all there
35:30was in Columbus.
35:31We didn't have
35:32Broadway plays,
35:33we didn't have
35:34opera, we didn't
35:35have great museums.
35:36This is what we
35:37had.
35:39When I was a
35:40kid, there were
35:41eight radio
35:42stations in
35:43Columbus.
35:43And on Saturday
35:45afternoons, all
35:46eight stations
35:47carried the
35:48Ohio State
35:49game.
35:49I don't know
35:50one kid from
35:51my high school
35:51that doesn't
35:52have a baby
35:52picture with
35:53Buckeye stuff.
36:00The way the kids
36:01are raised, it's
36:02not a basketball
36:03state, it's not a
36:04soccer state, it's a
36:06football state.
36:07Another Hall of
36:08Bay where you
36:08need to keep
36:09coming.
36:14You have to
36:15understand that in
36:16Columbus, Ohio,
36:17football is a
36:18secular religion.
36:27this is the
36:29evangelism of this
36:31part of the
36:32heart.
36:37Singular in its
36:39focus.
36:43In the manner
36:45that if you take a
36:46magnifying glass and
36:48hold it over an
36:48hand in the sun, it's
36:52everything.
37:07I love Ohio State
37:08football.
37:08I'm a fan.
37:09I wouldn't say that
37:10I'm like a crazy
37:11psycho fan.
37:12I'm able to step
37:13back and realize that
37:15hey, excuse me, it's
37:20a, I believe it's
37:21Coach Tressel calling.
37:23Yes, Coach.
37:26I don't know how
37:28many sets of ashes
37:29have been scattered
37:31somewhere near that
37:32field.
37:35It's a lot of
37:36people's wishes.
37:38It's a lot of
37:39people's dreams.
37:41There's an O on that
37:43ball cap that they
37:44want placed in their
37:45casket next to
37:46them.
37:46You could talk to
37:47people in the autumn
37:48here who want to
37:50live just long enough
37:52to see Ohio State
37:54kick the hell out of
37:55Michigan one more
37:56time.
37:57I could never figure
37:59out where this
38:00bile came from.
38:01I hate Michigan.
38:02I hate Michigan.
38:03I hate Michigan.
38:04Fuck the riverings.
38:05I hate Michigan.
38:06I hate Michigan.
38:07I hate Michigan.
38:07Fuck the riverings.
38:11Michigan and
38:12Ohio have been at
38:13each other's throats
38:14since people were
38:15writing down history
38:16on this continent.
38:18Wolverine lost to
38:19Buckeye and there
38:19was many a black guy
38:20to attest to the
38:21upset.
38:22The game is over
38:23but the mayhem
38:24lingers on.
38:25Oh!
38:28That was a
38:29soccer punch,
38:29but hey.
38:30Animosity in the
38:31region existed long
38:32before there was a
38:33football field to
38:34settle the score.
38:35In fact, it dates
38:36back to 1835.
38:38After Michigan had
38:40petitioned for
38:40statehood and
38:41discovered that
38:42through a land
38:42survey error,
38:44part of its
38:44territory, the
38:45Toledo Strip, had
38:47been claimed by
38:47the state of
38:48Ohio.
38:49Michigan and
38:50Ohio militias
38:51engaged in an
38:52angry though
38:53bloodless border
38:54dispute that
38:55ended with
38:55Toledo remaining
38:56a part of
38:57Ohio.
38:58Nearly two
38:59centuries later,
39:01border towns
39:01like Perry's
39:02holy Toledo.
39:03Toledo should
39:04feel very
39:06important about
39:06themselves.
39:08Nobody fought
39:09over Cleveland,
39:10Columbus, or
39:10Cincinnati, or
39:12Dayton, or
39:14Akron, just
39:16Toledo.
39:19Bergh, Ohio, are
39:20the disputed
39:21territories, with
39:22football allegiance
39:23now up for
39:24grads.
39:25The Michigan-Ohio
39:26border serves as
39:28a 70-mile-long line
39:29of scrimmage that
39:30creates a too-close-for-
39:32comfort coexistence
39:33between rival fan
39:34factions.
39:36Be it in the
39:37classroom or at the
39:38local trading post,
39:40where a young
39:40wolverine can be
39:41outfitted in maize and
39:42blue, and a buckeye
39:44nut can buy a
39:45buckeye nut.
39:46But weary travelers
39:48through these parts
39:49take heed.
39:49Are buckeye
39:50nuts edible?
39:53Knowing who the
39:54locals root for is
39:55Rivalry 101.
39:57So there was John
39:58Carey in Ohio before
39:59the presidential
40:00election, and he
40:01praises the Ohio
40:02State Buckeye
40:03football team.
40:03There is nothing
40:04better than Buckeye
40:06football, period.
40:08That's the way it
40:09works.
40:09But then he goes to
40:10a suburb of Detroit.
40:12We're roughly 60-70%
40:14Democratic.
40:16Our high schools are
40:17named after John F.
40:18Kennedy and Harry
40:20Truman.
40:21He could have said
40:22anything.
40:23And then he mentioned
40:25himself, I just go for
40:26buckeye football.
40:27I just go for buckeye
40:29football.
40:29That's where I'm coming
40:30out.
40:37That was while I was
40:38in Ohio.
40:39Now I know I'm in the
40:40state of Michigan, and
40:41you've got a great big
40:42M and a powerhouse of a
40:43team.
40:44This guy is a flip-flopper.
40:46Carzados has
40:47Carter.
40:48We believe the football
40:49in Ohio is a lot
40:50better, so the quality
40:51of the players are
40:52better.
40:52We feel no need to go
40:53across the board to get
40:54any of their, what
40:56they call, talented
40:57players.
40:57It is no secret
40:58Michigan has long
40:59stocked its cupboard
41:00with Ohio natives.
41:03Living next door to
41:04one of the nation's
41:05most fertile grounds for
41:06high school talent, who
41:08can blame them.
41:08that it causes
41:10resentment in the
41:10Buckeye State only adds
41:12to the rivalry.
41:14But while some
41:15Ohioans are willing to
41:16cross the border in
41:17search of gridiron glory,
41:19for others, it's not
41:20even an option.
41:22My dad said, okay,
41:23where are you going to
41:23go?
41:24I said, Dad, I want to
41:25go to Michigan.
41:26And he said, you
41:27traitor.
41:28I'll tell you where
41:29you're going.
41:30You're going right
41:30down to 71 South, and
41:32you're going to play for
41:33the Ohio State Buckeyes.
41:34And there was number
41:3536, Mr. Spielman.
41:37Better not go there.
41:38Don't ever come home
41:39if you do.
41:40So, there.
41:41That's good parenting,
41:42isn't it?
41:44But where would
41:44Michigan football be
41:46without players from
41:47Ohio?
41:48It wouldn't be where
41:49it is today.
41:49I promise you that.
41:50Many of our best
41:51players come from the
41:52state of Ohio.
41:53And trust me, that
41:54really pisses them
41:55off.
41:56Jim Mandich, number
41:5788, El Diablo, the
41:58great All-American
41:58tight end.
41:59Obviously, Michigan is
42:00the better place.
42:01It was a very easy
42:02decision to make.
42:04And if that's smug
42:05Michigan arrogance,
42:07deal with it.
42:08Buckeyes.
42:09John Colasar,
42:10wow, he kills us.
42:20Oh, my goodness.
42:24Charles Woodson, also
42:25from Ohio, ended up
42:26being a legend at
42:27Michigan.
42:28Now he's in the
42:29Pro Football Hall of
42:30Fame.
42:31Who, who, who,
42:32who said white men
42:33can't jump earlier?
42:36Charles Woodson,
42:37down the sideline.
42:39He's going to go.
42:41All the way to stop
42:43Michigan.
42:46So I don't know what
42:47they did to Desmond
42:47Howard to get him.
42:48They must have
42:49something on his
42:49family.
42:50Or somebody was
42:51kidnapped or something.
42:53I don't know how to
42:54get the ball.
42:55Seven yards.
42:57I made the first
42:58guy miss.
43:01Then I moved to my
43:02left.
43:03So now I'm running
43:03down Ohio State's
43:04sideline.
43:05I'm looking at the
43:05punter.
43:06I'm like, that's just
43:06totally unfair because
43:07no way in hell he's
43:08going to catch me.
43:09One man.
43:10Good one.
43:12I'm thinking, should I
43:13do it?
43:14Should I not?
43:15Should I do it?
43:16Should I not?
43:16And I'm really
43:16wrestling with myself
43:17about this.
43:18I cross the goal
43:19out like, hey, fuck
43:20it.
43:21And I did it.
43:25So you don't even
43:26have to say Desmond
43:27Howard.
43:27You can just say
43:28Heisman House.
43:29And this is, oh,
43:30God, it's brutal.
43:31It's brutal.
43:33The dream in Ohio is
43:34to stop all these
43:35defectors if they could
43:36only build a fence
43:37around the state.
43:47stop those traitors
43:48from going up north.
43:49Then they could
43:50establish long-term
43:50dominance over Michigan,
43:51which might be true,
43:53but they've never been
43:53able to do it to their
43:54enormous frustration.
43:57They don't forget those
43:58who kick their ass.
43:59I just put it to you
44:00like that.
44:00So when I'm down there,
44:01I take it as a compliment.
44:03I tell them, thank you
44:03very much.
44:04Desmond, you suck.
44:05Thank you very much.
44:06Desmond, fuck you.
44:08Thank you very much.
44:15Led by three-time
44:16All-Big Ten quarterback
44:17Rick Leach,
44:19the Wolverines put a
44:20Blue and May stamp
44:21on the 10-year war
44:22with victories in 1976,
44:2477, and 78.
44:30The leaguer Woody Hayes
44:31saw his Buckeyes
44:33outscored 50-9
44:34in the three games.
44:37The 10-year tally
44:38slide in Michigan's favor
44:40five to four
44:41with one tie.
44:42Joe Schimpechler
44:44has taken the measure
44:45of Woody Hayes
44:46three years in a row.
44:49Five weeks later,
44:51Woody Hayes' career
44:52in the 10-year war
44:54came to a sudden,
44:55shameful end.
44:57Leaguer looks at Conley,
44:58throws it short,
44:59and he's in!
45:00He's in!
45:01Go far from
45:03the middle line!
45:07I was watching
45:08the game on television
45:09and I saw the punch
45:10and I said,
45:11you've just seen
45:11the last game
45:12Woody Hayes will ever
45:13coach.
45:14I was sad,
45:15but I understood
45:16that that was the only way
45:17that Woody could go out.
45:19He was like Melville's
45:20Ahab
45:21and ended up
45:22being taken down,
45:24pinioned
45:25to his obsession.
45:31Football.
45:35Had no job by the next day.
45:37It was the biggest game
45:37I've ever coached
45:39and the one thing
45:39I loved to do
45:40was beat them.
45:41Then I looked over
45:42and they had their helmets off
45:43and they had a banner
45:44around here.
45:45They had something on it
45:46and I was standing back there
45:47and I was like,
45:48I don't allow a banner.
45:50What the heck
45:50are they doing?
45:52So I walked over there
45:53and I saw Earl
45:55written on it.
45:56I said,
45:57oh my God.
45:58Earl Bruce
45:59had the unenviable task
46:01of replacing Woody Hayes.
46:03But in his nine seasons
46:04in Columbus,
46:05he became the third
46:06winningest head
46:07coach in Buckeye history
46:09and posted a winning
46:10record against
46:10the Wolverines.
46:12We don't give an
46:13Which is only a mess.
46:16But at the tail end
46:18of a mediocre season,
46:19Bruce was unceremoniously
46:21fired prior to the
46:221987 Michigan game.
46:25And Earl Bruce's
46:26final appearance
46:27for Ohio State.
46:28His Buckeyes
46:29are really playing well.
46:31You know the old saying,
46:32you find a way to win.
46:33Touchdown.
46:34They found a way to win.
46:35Not too long after.
46:36It was all with the heart.
46:38Not with anything else.
46:40They did it with the heart.
46:41Bruce's successor
46:42was an immediate hit.
46:44But not in Columbus.
46:46I love John Cooper.
46:47John Cooper was great.
46:49Coach Cooper's a
46:50Hall of Fame coach.
46:51His stats say that.
46:52But again,
46:53when you're talking
46:53about Ohio State,
46:54I don't care what his record is.
46:56What's his record
46:56against Michigan?
46:57In the course of 13 years,
46:59they won two games
47:01over Michigan.
47:02So,
47:03poor job.
47:05John Cooper said,
47:07Michigan is just another game.
47:09He said that.
47:10His 1995 team
47:11was one of the best
47:12Ohio State teams
47:13ever assembled.
47:14Featured Eddie George,
47:15the Heisman Trophy winner
47:16at tailback.
47:17The Michigan team
47:18had already lost three times.
47:19they come into Michigan.
47:21And some guy
47:21that a lot of people
47:22whose name
47:22they can't even pronounce.
47:24Tishimanga Biakabatuka.
47:25He runs wild.
47:27Biakabatuka.
47:28Biakabatuka.
47:29And Biakabatuka
47:30drives the state.
47:31The elusive
47:32Tim Biakabatuka.
47:34Tishimanga Biakabatuka.
47:35Well,
47:36the commentators
47:37learned how to pronounce it
47:38that day
47:38because
47:38they said it a lot.
47:41Biakabatuka.
47:43Biakabatuka
47:43made a name for himself
47:44by rushing for
47:45a rivalry record
47:46313 yards.
47:48and spoiling
47:49one of several
47:50Ohio State seasons
47:51in the 1990s.
47:54Never fully embracing
47:55the magnitude
47:56of the rivalry,
47:57Cooper was replaced
47:58in 2001
47:59by someone
48:00who clearly did.
48:02How about a great
48:03big Buckeye welcome
48:04for Jim Dressel?
48:07The day he was announced
48:08as Ohio State's head coach,
48:10ironically,
48:11Ohio State was playing
48:12a basketball game
48:13that evening
48:14against the University
48:15of Michigan.
48:16He said,
48:16You'll be proud
48:17out of our young people
48:18in the classroom,
48:20in the community,
48:21and most especially
48:23in 310 days
48:26in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
48:30Thank you very much.
48:32Yes,
48:32finally,
48:33we have a coach
48:34that gets it.
48:35When that day came
48:36that I got to roll up
48:37my sleeves
48:37and go to work
48:38and see if I could be
48:40worthy of coaching
48:41at the Ohio State University,
48:42I knew one thing
48:43for sure.
48:44I better be prepared
48:45for a game
48:46that's unlike any other.
48:47I keep talking Dressel up
48:48to every NFL owner
48:49I see.
48:50I've got to get this guy
48:51out of Columbus.
48:52This guy's got to go away.
48:53Jim Dressel,
48:54a coach's son
48:55from Mentor, Ohio,
48:57delivered in his initial
48:58test against Michigan
48:59in 2001.
49:01Hand off,
49:01he'll bounce off.
49:02A victory over the Wolverines
49:03the following year
49:04secured a berth
49:05in the national title game
49:06versus Miami.
49:07And the Buckeyes
49:08are headed to the desert.
49:10Under pressure,
49:11throws it.
49:13Incomplete.
49:14The Buckeyes win.
49:16Now the party begins
49:18for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
49:20Dressel's record of success
49:22against that team
49:23from up north,
49:24five wins in six seasons,
49:26evoke memories
49:27of Woody Hayes.
49:30Long forgiven
49:31for his controversial exit,
49:34Hayes remains
49:35a larger-than-life figure
49:36whose spirit endures
49:38in Columbus.
49:40If you say Woody,
49:41he could only be one person.
49:43Still very much endeared
49:44to the public here.
49:47And it's a little bit
49:48like being in love
49:49with a very beautiful woman
49:51who has a broken nose.
49:54Coming into Columbus
49:55is like driving into Memphis
49:58and coming to Graceland.
50:00Woody is our Elvis.
50:03You can go anywhere,
50:04and there's going to be
50:05posters of Woody,
50:06pictures of Woody.
50:07There's going to be old men
50:08dressed like Woody.
50:15I've got two pictures
50:16in my workout room at home,
50:18and one of them is Woody.
50:19When it's snowing
50:19with a short-sleeved shirt
50:21and his little Woody hat on,
50:22that was him.
50:25Woody has cared about
50:27Ohio State University,
50:29cared about the state of Ohio.
50:36He's meant so much
50:38to so many people,
50:39and that's something
50:40that they'll never, ever forget.
50:44Hayes' bond with Ohioans
50:46was unmistakable.
50:48And when the smoke cleared
50:49from the 10-year war,
50:51a deep connection
50:52was also revealed
50:53with his supposed nemesis,
50:55their on-field bravado
50:57no longer casting a shadow
50:59on their mutual affection.
51:02When he realized it or not,
51:03I was his best friend
51:04in coaching.
51:05I was his best friend.
51:07When I had a heart attack
51:09at the Rose Bowl,
51:10he wrote me
51:10a very nice letter.
51:12When I came back
51:14and was recuperating
51:15in my house,
51:16he came to see me.
51:17He's the type of man
51:18that has brought great credit
51:19to college football.
51:21He's a great, great friend of mine.
51:23He always will be.
51:24Your whole life
51:25pivots around one game.
51:27Your whole life
51:28is devoted for one purpose,
51:29and that's to beat the other guy.
51:30Who else in the world
51:32could understand you?
51:35Bo and Woody
51:36respected each other
51:37and loved each other.
51:42I had a speech
51:43at the Ugonis Club in Dayton.
51:45They had talked to Woody
51:46earlier in the year
51:47about coming down
51:48and introducing me.
51:49He was too frail to do it.
51:52But he would not.
51:53He would not
51:55take no for an answer.
51:56So he had a kid
51:58ride him down
51:58in his truck
51:59and he could hardly walk.
52:02And he got up there
52:04for a half hour
52:07and talked about
52:08our relationship.
52:10His voice was
52:11not as strong
52:13as it usually was.
52:14But you could hear
52:15a pin drop out there.
52:17He's just a great man
52:18and a great, great friend.
52:21He's friendship.
52:21I can't tell you
52:23how much I can't tell you.
52:25And after that,
52:27Woody went home and died.
52:35That guy was a hell of a man.
52:39And those 10 years,
52:41me on one side
52:42and him on the other,
52:43I wouldn't change that
52:45for anything in the world.
52:46Hail to the victors' values!
52:50Hail to the concrete heroes!
52:53Hail, hail to Michigan,
52:55the leaders!
52:57Bo Schembechler
52:59shared his final account
53:00of the game
53:00just two days prior
53:02to the most anticipated meeting
53:03in the rivalry's history.
53:05He soaked up Michigan Stadium
53:07one last time.
53:10and the following morning,
53:13he was gone.
53:14While taping a local
53:15television program,
53:17Schembechler's heart gave out.
53:19He was 77.
53:22Memorials spread far and wide
53:24in Ann Arbor
53:24and quickly extended
53:26across state lines.
53:28Though he died
53:29a conquering hero,
53:31Bo Schembechler
53:31was born and raised
53:33a sturdy son of Ohio.
53:38football,
53:39Michigan, Ohio
53:40lost a fine man,
53:43a fine coach,
53:45a fine dad.
53:46Bo Schumont,
53:49just bow your head.
53:50A little prayer
53:51from the pastor.
53:53We bid goodbye
53:55to one of our own,
53:57one who was
53:58a great competitor
53:59and who loved the game
54:01and who will be missed sorely.
54:13on the third Saturday
54:15in November of 2006,
54:17the Ohio State Buckeyes
54:18and Michigan Wolverines
54:20met for the 103rd time.
54:23Both undefeated,
54:24it marked the first occasion
54:25the teams entered the game
54:27as the number one
54:28and number two ranked schools
54:29in the country.
54:31And once the curtain
54:32was finally drawn,
54:33these century-old rivals
54:35put on a show
54:37for the ages.
54:38The game
54:39unfolded like a celebration,
54:42a hundred-yard homage
54:43to all who played,
54:45coached,
54:46and cheered
54:46throughout this storied rivalry.
54:53In the end,
54:54the schools combined
54:55for the series'
54:56highest point total
54:57in 99 meetings.
55:00It was Ohio State
55:01which prevailed
55:0242 to 39,
55:05immortalizing
55:06a fresh crop of victors
55:07in Buckeye lore.
55:32An autumn ritual,
55:34the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry
55:36is as ingrained
55:37in Midwestern culture
55:38as stoicism
55:39and self-reliance.
55:41Like the fruits
55:42of the season's harvest,
55:43the game is a gift.
55:45A cycle of life
55:46that links generations
55:47and bonds hostile neighbors.
55:49Because beneath the bitterness
55:51that coats their epic feud,
55:53the teams grudgingly maintain
55:55a mutual
55:56and abiding respect.
55:59Yeah, Troy Smith
56:00robed this game
56:01all the way
56:02to the Heisman
56:03because he had
56:04a great season.
56:05Then the Ravers
56:07drafted him
56:07and he didn't,
56:08he didn't do much.
56:10They are companion
56:11pieces in history.
56:12Each side's legacy
56:14continually tied
56:15to the others.
56:16The objective
56:17to beat Ohio State
56:19we accomplished
56:20never.
56:21Yeah!
56:22Yeah!
56:22Yeah!
56:22Yeah!
56:24Yeah!
56:24Yeah!
56:24Yeah!
56:26The thing that makes
56:26the Michigan-Ohio State game
56:27so great
56:28and separates it
56:29from other sports rivalries
56:30is not only exactly
56:30once a year,
56:32it happens at the same time
56:33every year.
56:33And all great traditions
56:35in most cultures
56:37happen at the same time
56:38so there's a sense memory
56:39of when it happens.
56:40So you feel like
56:41you're not just seeing a game,
56:42you're seeing a historical event
56:43that you remember.
56:47It's a beautiful thing.
56:55You feel you are a part
56:57of something
56:58that stretches
56:59from before you existed
57:01and will be here
57:02long after you are gone.
57:06The way it was
57:07with our grandparents.
57:08Go blue!
57:09Go blue!
57:09Go blue!
57:11It's the way it was
57:12with our parents.
57:13It's the way it is with us.
57:17It's the way it's going to be
57:18with our children
57:20and grandchildren.
57:23The cold, dark,
57:24forbidding sky
57:25of that late November day
57:27in Ann Arbor
57:28or in Columbus.
57:31It does set a tone
57:32for the whole winter
57:34with either being a victor
57:35or having been humiliated
57:37by your rival.
57:40If you don't think
57:41it's a big deal around here,
57:42ask the guy who lost it.
57:47It's a stigma you carry
57:49for 364 days
57:50until you get a chance
57:51to remove it
57:52and get that blemish
57:53off your soul.
57:57And they look at
57:58gray flannel skies
57:59for months on end
58:00and you're thinking about
58:01we've got to beat
58:02those sons of bitches
58:03the next time.
58:10Post credits.
58:13How do you make
58:13Michigan cookies?
58:15Put them in a big bowl
58:16and beat them
58:16for three hours.
58:21How do you get
58:21an OSU brat
58:22off your porch?
58:24You pay him
58:25for the pizza.
58:29What do you call
58:30a Michigan Wolverine
58:31with a national
58:31championship ring?
58:33A beef.
58:37A Michigan fan
58:39and an OSU fan
58:40are in the third grade.
58:43Who's bigger?
58:45The OSU fan.
58:47He's 18.
58:48Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
58:51Ha ha ha ha ha.
58:52You
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