While you’re reading this, I’ll be working my way through some Thanksgiving leftovers and watching the Ohio State Buckeyes beat TTUN, 103-0, as Michigan fans go back in time to the Jim Tressel-Urban Meyer years.

OK, so no one — even the most rabid Buckeyes fan — expects that kind of score. But after four consecutive losses for Ohio State in the best rivalry in sports, most of us will settle for any kind of victory in The Game.

The Buckeyes are the defending national champions after storming through last season’s playoff by manhandling Tennessee (42-17), Oregon (41-21), Texas (28-14) and Notre Dame (34-23).

By the time the greatest college football playoff run of all time was finished, almost no one outside of Ann Arbor remembered that Ohio State’s 2024 regular season ended with a fourth

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