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…
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