Ohio State vs Michigan 2013

Venue:
Alternates each year between Ohio Stadium "The Shoe" and Michigan Stadium "The Big House"

Trophy:
None

First Meeting:
10-16-1897
Michigan won 34-0

Last Meeting:
11/22/2008
Ohio State won 42-7

Number of Meetings:
105

Series Record:
Michigan Leads 57-42-6

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Michigan Wolverines vs Ohio State Buckeyes - Ann Arbor   November 30, 2013	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI

Classic Games: 

“The Snow Bowl” – On November 25th, 1950, Ohio State and Michigan played in Columbus during the worst blizzard Ohio had seen in 37 years.  It was so cold that OSU kicker, Vic Janowicz described the experience as “a nightmare.  My hands were numb and blue.  I had no feeling in them, and I don’t know how I hung onto the ball.  It was terrible.  You knew what you wanted to do, but you couldn’t do it”.  Ohio State fans showed their loyalty though, as 50,503 people attended the game, despite bone chilling 30 m.p.h winds, and white out conditions.  After a long and brutal game though, Michigan would emerge victorious, winning 9-3.

November 22, 1969 – Woody Hayes led his Buckeye team into Ann Arbor on a 22-game winning streak and a #1 ranking, to battle Bo Schembechler’s Wolverine squad.  The Buckeyes were considered heavy favorites, and the top team in the land.  In the first half though, the Wolverines showed that they would not be intimidated.  In the second quarter, Barry Pierson returned a punt 60 yards for a Wolverine Touchdown to break the game open.  At the end of the first half, the score was 24-12, in favor of Michigan.  In the second half, Michigan would put on a defensive display that stymied the Buckeyes.  Michigan intercepted the ball 6 times, and the second half remained scoreless.  Michigan carded the upset, and snapped the OSU win streak.  This would be the first game of the “Ten Year War”.  Between 1969-1978, OSU and Michigan met 4 times when both teams were ranked in the AP top 5.  Michigan would have a slight edge after the “Ten Year War” with a 5-4-1 record.

Michigan vs Ohio State a brief history.
The annual game between the two Midwest state schools has been held at the end of the regular season since 1935 (with exceptions in 1942, 1986, and 1998). Since 1935, Ohio State and Michigan have decided the Big Ten Conference championship between themselves on 23 different occasions, and have affected the determination of the conference title an additional 24 times.

The start of the rivalry is storied that during 1835 and 1836, the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory engaged in a brief and bloodless border dispute known as the Toledo War. Some have proposed that the football rivalry is a modern manifestation of this historical tension. Originating from conflicting state and federal legislation passed between 1787 and 1805, the dispute resulted from poor understanding of geographical features of the Great Lakes at the time. Varying interpretations of the law caused the governments of Ohio and Michigan to both claim sovereignty over a 468 square mile region along the border, now known as the “Toledo Strip”. When Michigan pressed for statehood in the early 1830s, it sought to include the disputed territory within its boundaries; Ohio's Congressional delegation was in turn able to halt Michigan's admission to the Union. Beginning in 1835 both sides passed legislation attempting to force the other side's capitulation. Ohio's Governor Robert Lucas and Michigan's then 24-year-old "Boy Governor" Stevens Mason were both unwilling to cede jurisdiction of the Strip, so they raised militias and helped institute criminal penalties for citizens submitting to the other's authority. The militias were mobilized and sent to positions on opposite sides of the Maumee River near Toledo, but besides mutual taunting there was little interaction between the two forces. The single military confrontation of the "war" ended with a report of shots being fired into the air, resulting in no casualties.