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Game Thread THE GAME: Ohio State 14, TSUN 3 (final)

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Blade

November 16, 2007

Wolverines' roster dotted with Buckeyes

By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

COLUMBUS - In the minds of some Ohio State players, the Rio Grande and the Arizona desert are not the only places where we have border security issues. They can't figure out what all of those Ohio guys are doing crossing the state line to go play for Michigan. "It's crazy. Maybe I'm biased because I'm here in Columbus, but I can't see playing for any other state, any other university," Ohio State senior fullback and Columbus native Dionte Johnson said.

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MJ

Surprise: Edwards picking Wolverines to win


JEFF SCHUDEL, Morning Journal Writer
11/16/2007




BEREA -- Braylon Edwards is happy as ever to talk about his Michigan Wolverines, but unlike in 2005 and 2006 he has to be prompted to discuss his alma mater's upcoming game against Ohio State tomorrow in Ann Arbor, Mich.


''Ah, THE game,'' Edwards said. ''Obviously, Ohio State showed they were vulnerable on Saturday (the 28-21 loss to Illinois). Obviously, Michigan has shown they've struggled at times this year in a lot of phases.


''The big thing for Michigan is if everybody is healthy, we'll have the best shot. If Mike (running back Mike Hart, ankle injury) plays, which he will, if (quarterback Chad Henne, leg injury) plays, which I'm not sure about, and everybody else, we'll have our best shot.

''On the flip side, Ohio State is playing sound, solid football with the exception of Saturday. Offense was good, defense was good and special teams was good. None of it is great, but nowhere were they bad or average.

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MJ

Cracks in the defense?
JASON LLOYD, Morning Journal Writer
11/16/2007




COLUMBUS -- Malcolm Jenkins has always been hesitant this season to praise Ohio State's defense. He was convinced last year's unit was one of the best in school history, then watched Michigan and Florida tear it apart in successive games.


Because of that, Ohio State's top cornerback was always the grounded one this time around. After the Buckeyes shut out Purdue's high powered offense for 59 minutes and 50 seconds, Jenkins was unimpressed.


After the defense unplugged Michigan State's powerful running game, he still wouldn't hand out many compliments.

''We'll have to see how we finish the season,'' he said. ''Last year we had a great defense, but nobody remembers us because we had two horrible games at the end.''

Maybe, just maybe, it's happening again.

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DFP

Deja OSU: How Buckeyes have dominated Michigan's psyche

November 16, 2007
BY SHAWN WINDSOR
FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER
The last time Ohio State beat Michigan in four consecutive years, Bo Schembechler was coaching. In Ohio. At Miami University. In the early 1960s.
On Saturday, the Buckeyes have a chance to do it again when they face U-M in Ann Arbor for the 104th meeting of, arguably, college football's most significant rivalry.

In other words, most of OSU's players don't know what it's like to lose to the Wolverines. This is just fine with Kirk Barton, the Buckeyes' 6-foot-6, 300-pound senior offensive tackle. "This is about the rest of your life," he said.
Twelve years ago, Ohio State arrived in Ann Arbor 11-0. The team's tailback, Eddie George, was on his way to the Heisman Trophy. The Buckeyes were ranked No. 2 in the country.
Barton was 10.
"And I still remember that game," he said.
OSU lost, 31-23, part of a string of devastating losses in the '90s under former coach John Cooper. Now it's Michigan's turn to suffer. The Wolverines have won once in the past six years. They are tired of hearing about it.
"We're not thinking about (the fact that) we haven't beaten them in a couple of years," said senior Jake Long, U-M's left tackle. "We just want to go out, play this game."



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DFP

Michigan Ave. in Columbus, Ohio, gets new name ahead of big game

November 16, 2007
FREE PRESS NEWS SERVICES
COLUMBUS, Ohio - While Ohio State and Michigan re-ignite their rivalry, a Columbus aluminum siding business couldn't deal with its address on the city's Michigan Avenue.
So, APCO Industries contacted City Hall to see what could be done.

During a celebration featuring Mayor Michael Coleman, Ohio State President Gordon Gee and mascot Brutus Buckeye, a new scarlet and gray street sign was unveiled Wednesday with the name ?Buckeye Way.?

It's only temporary - for what's known locally as ?Beat Michigan Week.?

The annual football game is set for Saturday at Michigan.
 
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DFP

OHIO COLUMNIST: Why Michigan shouldn't win -- saving Carr might not save program

November 16, 2007
By Josh Hachat
The Newark, Ohio, Advocate
How does a Michigan fan approach this year's Ohio State game, which in a span of about six hours, suddenly took on less meaning?
Does a Wolverine fan still gasp for that victory like they have the past three years, hoping to get Lloyd Carr that win to put the program back over the hump?

Or do they secretly wish that Michigan would fall -- ever so gracefully, mind you -- to the Buckeyes one last time for the final straw in a miserable season in a Carr era that's suddenly taken a drastic turn toward John Cooper territory?

If Carr loses and the Wolverines fall to 8-4, there's no way anybody in their right mind can say he should stay. Not after this year, which has become an even bigger embarrassment than last year, which was a bigger dose of humble pie than the one previous.

You get the picture.

Each year has gotten progressively worse, and this year obviously takes the cake.

Losing to a I-AA school was a complete slap in the face to the program, and the Wolverines laid down a week later in getting pasted by Oregon.

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Dispatch

Bob Hunter commentary: There was a time when Rose Bowl mattered

Friday, November 16, 2007 4:05 AM
By Bob Hunter


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



Dionte Johnson says the Rose Bowl was just about all his father ever talked about. Pepper Johnson played linebacker at Ohio State from 1982 to '85, back when the football resembled a pregnant watermelon, cows gave their lives to become football helmets and everybody ran the single-wing offense -- or so it must seem to today's players. Pepper Johnson is what they would call a real old-timer. Dionte Johnson, a senior fullback for the Buckeyes, must consider himself lucky to have grown up around a football relic such as that.



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Dispatch

Michigan: Hurting Henne, Hart in demand
Wolverines' hopes hinge on having veterans on field
Friday, November 16, 2007 3:47 AM
By Shawn Mitchell


The Columbus Dispatch



ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Coach Lloyd Carr has made it clear that there will be no official word on the status of injured running back Mike Hart and quarterback Chad Henne until Michigan takes the field Saturday against Ohio State. Hart is the school's career rushing leader, and Henne has thrown for more yards than anyone in school history, but both seniors have been hurt for much of a tumultuous season.



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Blade

November 16, 2007

Wolverines' roster dotted with Buckeyes

By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

... "It's crazy. Maybe I'm biased because I'm here in Columbus, but I can't see playing for any other state, any other university," Ohio State senior fullback and Columbus native Dionte Johnson said.

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That is an incredible statement when you consider who his father is and where his father is from.

And the article doesn't even touch on that angle...
 
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