The 10 Most Incredible Facts From Ohio State 56, Michigan 27
0-5
Harbaugh made history on Saturday by becoming the first coach for either school to start his career 0-5 in the series.
John Cooper (1988-1991) and Albert Herrnstein (1906-1909) both started 0-4.
Herrnstein had the decency not to try a fifth time. Cooper broke his streak with the tie mentioned above.
.7298
With the win over Michigan, Ohio State is now the top major-conference program in the nation by winning percentage. OSU’s .7298 (a record of 923-325-53) puts them just slightly ahead of Michigan’s .7297 (962-345-36).
So now when Ohio State fans tell Michigan fans that their “winningest program” claim is based solely on having started to play the sport before most other teams, they’ll be 100 percent correct.
4
J.K. Dobbins is the first Buckeye in more than half a century to put up four touchdown runs in a single game against Michigan.
Jim Otis had four against the Wolverines in a 50-14 win in 1968.
Bob Ferguson also scored four times against Michigan in a 50-20 win in 1961.
Jonathan Wells was seemingly on his way to doing it in 2001 with three first-half rushing touchdowns, but sprained his ankle and had to leave the game in the middle of the third quarter.
4-0
For the first time in program history, the Buckeyes are on a four-game winning streak in Ann Arbor.
OSU beat Michigan in Michigan Stadium in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019.
The Bucks are 7-1 in Ann Arbor since 2005.
For comparison’s sake, they only won six games in Michigan Stadium from 1966 to 2003.
8
As mentioned above, the Buckeyes have won eight straight meetings with Michigan. That’s the longest streak in Ohio State’s history against the Wolverines.
You might also remember the second-longest streak for OSU in The Game. It happened from 2004 to 2010.
So yes, there are kids who are old enough to drive now who have only seen Michigan win The Game once in their entire lives.
Oh, and those kids are also the same age as current college football recruits.
The only team to ever win nine straight meetings was Michigan. And like many of the Wolverines’ major accomplishments in this series, it happened at least partly before the airplane was invented.
Michigan won each meeting with Ohio State from 1901 to 1909, before the teams were even in the same conference.
29
A year after scoring 62 points against Michigan, the 56-point outburst on Saturday probably seemed like an offensive slump.
But the 29-point margin of victory ranks as the 7th-biggest the Buckeyes have ever put up in the series.
Two came during the Rich Rodriguez era (37-7 in 2010 and 42-7 in 2008), which shouldn’t really count.
Outside of those games, the Buckeyes haven’t laid that big of a butt-kicking on the Wolverines in more than 50 years.
The only other blowouts that big came in 1934 (34-0), 1935 (38-0), 1961 (50-20), and 1968 (50-14).
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Don’t Let Frequency of Great Performances Overshadow History Being Made
Ohio State went into Ann Arbor on Saturday and beat Michigan for an eighth-consecutive year.
It was their 15th win in 16 games, and 17th win in the last 19 meetings.
Some would call it ‘old hat,’ but if the new hat fits so great and looks so good every year, it’s okay to admire it for its individual beauty. There is no reason to just toss it on your pile of other hats. You need to admire them and set them out so that they can be appreciated.
And that’s what Buckeye fans need to make sure they do with yesterday’s win over the Wolverines.
I know it won’t be taken for granted. But things happened in that game that generally
don’t happen in that game. Players had performances that aren’t that easy to come by, and just because they are becoming more frequent against Michigan doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be acknowledged.
For instance, freshman wide receiver Garrett Wilson caught three passes for 118 yards and a touchdown, and in doing so he joined a fairly exclusive group. He became just the eighth Buckeye to ever have 100 receiving yards in a game against Michigan.
He joined Parris Campbell (192, 2018), Ted Ginn (104, 2006), John Frank (123, 1983), Santonio Holmes (121, 2003), Brian Stablein (111, 1992), David Boston (217, 1998), and Michael Jenkins (132, 2003) in the Buckeyes’ Century Club.
I’m not sure if you’ve seen the Ohio State record books in a while, but that’s a decent group to be listed among, and yet none of them were true freshmen like Wilson is.
Last year, Chris Olave made his mark in this game as a true freshman with two touchdowns catches and a blocked punt, but even those two receptions went for just 48 yards total.
Junior running back JK Dobbins also joined an exclusive group, as he does just about every week.
He now joins Archie Griffin as the only two Buckeyes with more than 4,000 yards rushing. Dobbins is now at 4,113 yards rushing in his career, and is
only a little under 1,500 yards away from overtaking Griffin as the all-time rushing leader at Ohio State.
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