COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio State -Michigan rivalry is always that much better when both sides have something to lose.

That’s been the case three other times since Ryan Day took over the Buckeyes program in 2019, even if he’s been on the losing side in all three.

In 2021, 2022 and 2023, The Game punched someone’s ticket to the Big Ten Championship Game and by proxy the College Football Playoff, given that conference title games had become a 60-minute coronation of whoever had already won the Big Ten East division.

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