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Game Thread Ohio State at Michigan State, 11/19/16, 12p ET ESPN/WatchESPN

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Michigan State Spartans is the biggest game on Ohio State Buckeyes 's schedule. It hasn't always been that way, but right now it's the most consequential game in determining the outcome of the teams' seasons.

Michigan Wolverines fans disagree, obviously, as do some Buckeyes. The Big Game wins over time, sure, but in this moment Sparty-Buckeyes is the premiere Big Ten conference game. It's one that gets circled by all college football fans a week or two in advance to avoid missing the next chapter of the Mark Dantonio-Urban Meyer rivalry.

Because we are prisoners of the moment in college football and stuck with only a small sample size of games to feed our addiction as fans, it doesn't take too many seasons to establish a modern rivalry. They are often centered around coaches and their back-and-forth both on and off the field, but a few disappointing (or program-changing) results can quickly heighten those rivalries in the locker room as well.

College football's best modern rivalry escalated to a new level in a disappointing loss for the Buckeyes that was also a program-changing win for Mark Dantonio and Michigan State.

Urban Meyer has won three national titles at two different schools and is rightly regarded as one of the best coaches in college football, but the pizza game was a moment in time that will never be forgotten by Big Ten fans. A photo, taken by USA Today's George Schroeder, encompassed the emotions of having a title shot stripped away in the final moments of grueling regular season.

Ohio State had won every game with Meyer on the sideline to that point, 24-0 and perfect against Big Ten opponents. The Spartans, one year removed from a 7-6 finish, pulled off the upset and rode the momentum into the Rose Bowl. That 2013 Big Ten title game was a defining moment in the rivalry.

Since that 2013 win against Ohio State, Michigan State has an uptick in the recruiting rankings every year. No longer the "little brother" in the state, the Spartans now stand eye-to-eye with the Wolverines thanks to their recent success and the recruiting rankings show an increasingly competitive battle on the trail as well.

YEAR MICHIGAN STATE
(RANKING, AVG. RATING) MICHIGAN
(RANKING, AVG. RATING)
2013 No. 5 Big Ten, Avg: 85.60 No. 2 Big Ten, Avg: 86.22
2014 No. 4 Big Ten, Avg: 86.71 No. 2 Big Ten, Avg: 82.25
2015 No. 3 Big Ten, Avg: 87.70 No. 5 Big Ten, Avg: 87.81
2016 No. 3 Big Ten, Avg: 88.83 No. 2 Big Ten, Avg: 89.96
Rankings via the 247Sports Composite

"We used to sell recruits on a vision, now we can sell results," Dantonio told CBS Sports on National Signing Day in 2015. It's a phrase that he's continued to use on the recruiting trail to point out five 11+ win seasons, three conference titles and and three straight top-six finishes in the polls at the end of the year.

But the tipping point when it comes to ranking rivalries is drama, and OSU-MSU has just meant more in recent years. The 2013 pizza game came after a 17-16 Ohio State win the year before, evening the score between Dantonio and Meyer. The Buckeyes responded with a 49-37 win in East Lansing the next year on the way to winning the national title before stumbling last season in Columbus.

The fallout from that 17-14 last-second loss to Michigan State included finger-pointing, the beginning of an NFL Draft exodus and disappointment that felt all-too-familiar to anyone who was there for the 2013 Big Ten title game loss as well. Ohio State went 12-1, a banner year for anyone else in the country, and it was a disappointment because the preseason No. 1 team in the country missed out on the College Football Playoff.

There's just not a modern rivalry in college football that has combined winning at the highest level with the ultimate drama over the last four years than the Meyer-Dantonio era of Ohio Bobcats State-Michigan State.

Excluding just a short list of "traditional rivalries" -- Alabama-Auburn, Michigan-Ohio State, Notre Dame-USC, Oklahoma-Texas, Army-Navy, BYU-Utah, Cal-Stanford, Florida-Florida State, Georgia-Georgia Tech, Clemson-South Carolina, UCLA-USC, Arizona-Arizona State, Ole Miss Rebels , Mississippi State Bulldogs , Oregon-Oregon State -- here are the next best modern rivalries.
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jwinslow said:
Msu has been more challenging lately but it is absolutely not the biggest game. Osu can lose to Sparty again. It would stink but it would not be within miles of the fallout if they lost to Michigan
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exactly

"more challenging" comes and goes. Sometimes it's MSU, sometimes its Wisconsin, Penn state, Iowa etc (the quadrennial powers as I like to call them).

None of them occupy the same class as our eternal enemy
 
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It is not too early for fans to provide "guidance" on how to score on Don Brown:
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...-new-michigan-defensive-coordinator-don-brown

Clemson may have the blueprint, though it was far from pretty:
http://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=400756953

Throwing seems to be the answer, which makes sense, though it is risky:
http://www.bcinterruption.com/bosto...5-clemson-34-boston-college-17-by-the-numbers

It appears that JBlo decided to go hire a run stopper after his last experience in The GAME.
 
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maximumblitz said:
It is not too early for fans to provide "guidance" on how to score on Don Brown:
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...-new-michigan-defensive-coordinator-don-brown

Clemson may have the blueprint, though it was far from pretty:
http://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=400756953

Throwing seems to be the answer, which makes sense, though it is risky:
http://www.bcinterruption.com/bosto...5-clemson-34-boston-college-17-by-the-numbers

It appears that JBlo decided to go hire a run stopper after his last experience in The GAME.
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What does any of this scum shit have to do with the sparty game?

FUCK M*CH*G*N!!
 
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