COLUMBUS, Ohio – Nineteen years ago in January, newly named Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel stepped onto the OSU basketball floor at halftime and reset the Ohio State-Michigan football rivalry. “I am so proud, so excited and so humbled to be your football coach at the Ohio State University,” Tressel told the crowd. “I can assure you that you will be proud of our young people in the classroom, in the community and, most especially, in 310 days in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the football field.” At that point, Ohio State had won just two of the last 13 games against Michigan. Since then, Ohio State not only has dominated Michigan, 16-2, it has dominated the Big Ten – winning two national championships and nine Big Ten titles (10 including one later vacated by NCAA rules violations). During this time, no other Big Ten school has won a national…
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