How Michigan-Ohio State Became The Greatest Rivalry In Sports 

I’ve lived in Ohio my whole life, my dad is an alum of tOSU and now I am a student there as well. A rivalry does not describe the feeling. It’s a hatred that sits for 364 days and on one Saturday at the end of November it’s released. There’s no game that means more to either team or fanbase.

The Bo and Woody era and the 10yr war is so fun to even read about/watch in retrospective. Reminds you how much excellent tradition there in both programs and the game itself.

I was born into an Ohio State family, and my godfather is a big Michigan fan. He gave my parents a Michigan onesie for me as a baby shower present, and my parents pained "sucks" under the name. Hating that team up north is a way of life in Columbus.

Good fences make good neighbors is perfect for Michigan and Ohio 😂

You know whats great, after looking at the history of the rivalry. The most competitive time of this rivalry was the 70s and 80s. As there were decades of dominance on both sides outside of that period.

I live in the Toledo area. It is still split. Not odd to see Michigan, and OSU fans at the same place here. Some families are even split. That does not happen any where else in Ohio.

I’m so glad you mentioned the Toledo war… I did a research paper on it in high school years ago. I’m pretty sure there were fatalities on both sides. I grew up in Michigan age 3-24, 45 minutes just south of Ann Arbor. The hatred for Ohio State was strong. I could only find a job out of college in Toledo Ohio after college in 2010. I’ve since moved to the other state that hates Ohio the second most… South Carolina. I felt truly at home right away as a result. 😅

Dude! The history part was AWESOME! I'm going to the game tomorrow and I can't wait! 😃

Harbaugh played QB in the game, guaranteed a win in it, delivered, and now he has coached to 3 wins in a row. His history with the game probably deserved a quick mention.

I’m different to most I feel like, I’ve lived my entire life in Ohio 30 mins outside of Columbus and my entire family are OSU fans except my dad who was born in Michigan and lived there until he was about 12 and because he was a huge Michigan fan I was. I was born in the early 2000s so I grew up in school every year Michigan would take a beating to OSU and all of my friends would ask why I’m a Michigan fan I should just root for the better team but I stayed loyal to Michigan no matter what and the past few years have the greatest payoff of my life and it all culminated into a National Championship this year.

I’m a USC and Ohio St fan in socal and my best friend is a Michigan fan so now we get to see our teams play once every other year which is nice.

The Toledo valley strip was a major blessing in disguise for Michigan, in compensation for us not getting that land the upper peninsula was given to us as sort of a consolation prize, and in the end I think Michigan residents would much rather have that being honest

Bo Schembechler would have loved this game. Power football at it's best. Late int the 4th quarter, 8:06 to go and Michigan runs the ball down the field for a field goal, a 6 point lead, with 58 seconds left and OSU has used all of it's time outs. Then, Michigan's defense does the job once again for a second interception. Therefore, game over with 25 seconds to go and a victory formation for Michigan and a 12-0 record once again... Michigan 30 OSU 24..

You forgot to mention the legendary coach and innovator, Paul Brown, who coached for OSU.

Michigans National Championship is complete.

And after another win, Michigan beat Alabama and Washington to win the national title. Jim Harbaugh went to the NFL, and Sherrone Moore took over. The end. Great video!

I grew up during the Ten Year War. That was also the era of the 'Big Two and the Little Eight' - since none of the other Big 10 teams were ever really competitive for the conference title. The winner of The Game won the Big 10 and went to the Rose Bowl and - since there were fewer bowl then and the Big 10 only sent a team to the Rose - the loser went home.

Very well put-together documentary 👏 ! I enjoyed it immensely ! 😊 🏉 A note : between 2001 and 2019, Michigan won two contests - the 2003 game along with the one mentioned in 2011. 🏉 In retrospect, the 2006 matchup is probably more noteworthy in that Schembechler passed away the night before the game. The actual game was, arguably, a made-for-tv hype contest - #1 v #2 which, yes, did provide a close, competitive, entertaining affair. Yet OSU then gets blown out by Florida in the nat'l title game and UM is routed by USC in the Rose Bowl. So ... maybe not a real matchup between the two best teams; more simply, the last two regular season undefeated schools. 🤔 🏈

I was born in Toledo and am a OSU fan but it’s crazy over here because there is about an equal amount of Ohio and Michigan fans

I recognize that 68 game. Made by a friend. Of course the radio broadcast is longer than a coaches film he'd replay almost every play in slowmo to give you something to looks at while still keeping mostly intact the radio broadcast. It takes somebody like 40 hrs to make such, all for the love of college football.

Toledo native here. I taught my son when he was a toddler the chant “Go Bucks, Blue sucks!” To this day, he still refers to Uof❌ as the “Sucks.” 😂

I had to live in michigan for 4 years as an ohio native. When i had my firstborn, i had his mom and i drive an hour south because I refused to have a michigan born child... it runs deep

13:07 bo would pass away the week before that game, adding just that extra little element to the it. Despite the hatred between the fans and teams, bo was respected by both sides.

It actually use to be dangerous to visit as an opposing fan. There’s stories of cars with Ohio/Michigan license plates being flipped over and fire bombed after losses lol. This rivalry runs DEEP. Go blue!! 3 in a row!

We ended kicking THE Ohio state ass and winning. Went back to back for the big ten championship and won a national championship. And we live rent free in Ryan day’s head 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m from Ohio, but I’m a Notre Dame fan so I watch the game from a neutral perspective. This rivalry is truly something special, and as someone who announces for my D3 school (Baldwin Wallace where Jim Tressel played), I dream of calling a game with half the significance of this rivalry

For the record Michigan won that last game and went on to win the national championship

Do people realize that long after retirement Woody came to Ann Arbor for a dinner and was lionized. Moral of the story is your best enemy is actually your best friend. I love Michigan but nothing but respect for the Buckeyes. What fun would it be if Indiana was our big rival.

Remember the last time a UM or OSU fan told you this was the greatest rivalry in the history of humanity? For me it was about 19 hours ago.

Great video and channel!

Looking for the bama fans in the comments arguing that the iron bowl is bigger 😂😂😂 Go Blue 💛 💙

Grew up in a Ohio family myself born in Michigan and always Rep the blue baby it’s screw Ohio till I die Go blue baby!!

Hail to the victors. Go Blue!

I grew up in NE Ohio and always wondered why so many Michigan fans came from Toledo.

Main ingredients,...he forgot a very important one. NO TROPHY. (Mich/Ohio.....Lehigh/Lafayette....Harvard Yale)

Woody used to punch camera men and players. He would be in jail today for that.

Some feedback for the channel - the song running on all the vids is repetitive and distracting when it gets loud every ~20 seconds. Other than that, great stuff, you’re bound to grow big soon

Michigan won the 2023 game.

Need an iron bowl video

Go Blue!

If the viewer turn out and TV crowed shows aything this is a great Rivalry. Huge numbers great teams playing. M GO BLUE! Let's go Wolverines.

To say players just got free tattoos is the same as michigan players practiced too much. You forgot that one.

It's far from just 'regional' by now. It's mainly that, but not exclusively.

OU vs TX. 50/50 split on the crowd every year. Records - UT has a 12 game advantage built on games played through 1916. Since then, it's exactly 50/50. Dislike doesn't describe the fan point of view.

Summary .. In conference Ohio State up 1 .. Last 100 Ohio State up 3 .. unless you cherrypick and deflect history before the year 2000 this thing has been Neck and Neck in Ohio State terms .. All Time still isn’t very close .. Michigan has just padded the lead and maintained it yet again . Current win streak . But Ohio state fans will say we live in the past 😂 Took Ohio State 100 years to go 17-2 when Michigan had already dominated multiple decades and two decades between 1900 and 2000 going 14-6 .. built a lead so big that 17-2 couldn’t make a comeback .. Michigan 61-51-6 … leader and best . 〽️ Ohio State will never lead .

In sign stealing nothing we still won. 😅

Today is going to be very interesting........to all who reads this.....enjoy...."The Game"

Note that no Michigan player or staff has assaulted another player.

As a Michigan fan I can say this was a very well done description of The Game. GO BLUE〽️

Ohio is lame

And for 5he third time Michigan won

American Sports 17:12 lol

Imagine fighting over Toledo. Also, the upper peninsula was taken from Wisconsin, the real loser here.

That’s not Bayonne that either New York or Jersey City

We don’t give a damn for the whole state of Michigan O-H

And now yall need to realize Ohio state is not at the top of this rivalry just bc of there little run of winning 😂 still lead all time by almost 10 games

Lets all agree Ohio sucks.

Ryan Day took a dump on this rivalry by going political. Haha! His antics didn’t work! A Harbaugh less coached Michigan team still beat your Buckeyes!

Appalachian State is the biggest upset of all time.

2023 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 〽️🌹🏆

Michigan wins National Title.

Because he couldn’t go for 3 is hilarious

#BEATOHIO

Started out great. Ended with a nothing burger

Lets go blue

Every morning I wake up and say f*ck Ohio state

Except it’s not the greatest rivalry. That’s Alabama-Auburn. And “The Game” is Harvard-Yale.

Harbaugh isn’t on the sideline because of Karen Day. Make the rivalry great again. Fire Ryan Day Today & Jim Knowles!

This is not even close to the greatest rivalry in spots.

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14:15 they hammered Ohio state for this and it was all off the field. I can only imagine what they’ll do to Michigan after they finish up their investigation.

OSU sucks, Go Blue

YEAHHHHH GEORGIA BULLDOGS #1 SEED WOOF WOOF🐶

worldwide 😂😂😂😂

Michigan Mac is still better lol

The Ohio State Buckeyes vs The Ann Arbor Astros is the new iteration of the rivalry.

And yet I don't give a fuck about it living in FL.

But it’s not the greatest anymore

You hide the fact that the first time Michigan and Ohio SU played, they were not conference rivals. Ohio SU is not a charter/original member of the Big Ten. Michigan's primary rival until the mid 1930s was fellow Original Seven member U of Chicago. It took Chicago leaving for Ohio SU to become UM's primary rival. Get your history correct.

Idk man there’s so many, FSU Miami and auburn bama are pretty wild too

I've been a OSU fan since '86, I was 12. I have family in Detroit, we never liked each other because of the rivalry. I felt disrespected when they hired Rich Rodriguez, because he changed up their identity. From that point on I wanted OSU to stomp them and get every coach fired. We would've gotten Haurbaugh fired if he wouldn't have chickened out of the '20 game. We didn't chicken out of the Snow Bowl. That gave him enough time to show how desperate he was. Enter Connor Stallion...who helped him to cheat and get consecutive wins. Those fans swear up and down it's them against the world. No, it's you against the NCAA infraction board. They have the gaul to imply we had done something wrong to try and take the eyes of the nation off of them. Once again, when we had 'tattoo gate' did you here any OSU coaches, alumi, faculty or fans mention TTUN of anything? That's how classless they are, skirt responsibility like a politician. This whole scandal has made me hate them more.

This right here is bullshit. This rivalry is Lame. It was Lame then and it is Lame now

Honestly I’d put this rivalry at the #2 spot in greatest sports rivalry for the #1 greatest sports rivalry I’d have to say it’s Alabama VS Auburn so many iconic nicknamed iron bowls. It’s a game we’re ranks don my matter for either team it’s the greatest sports rivalry of all time no doubt

Sorry but it's not

Answer: it didn’t

Harbaugh vs OSU Loss Loss Loss Loss Loss Chickened Out Cheated Cheated Suspended

Horse crap,Army navy kids. Are Michigan and Ohio State players willing to die for the other? Difference is for 364 days a year there is that commitment to the other service. I have seen it.That one day,when there is NO OTHER F.B.S. level game on any channel,these two leadership factories try to destroy the other.On every single building on the post that is West Point the words Beat Navy are found.Every Building.They would do the same thing at navy,but they have spelling issues there.Beat Amie does not look too good. Michigan and Ohio State are just two over ratted academically state colleges. Nothing special.Big but average. There are many state schools playing football but only 3 Academy's.Just 3.E.S.P.N.talking head hands out that championship trophy. The president hands out the Commandeer In Chief trophy.HUGE DIFFERENCE! In fact except for Biden, the Commander In Chief attends the game. Then again Biden is NOt. in true command of anything. Not even his bowl movements.

We don’t give a damn for the whole state of Michigan

Greatest rivalry in sports? Not even close. Not even the biggest in the continent. But then again such a statement would require Americans to consider a world outside of America.

Good thing you didn't mention these teams history's of hiring black head coaches 😬

The 2020 game was forfeited by Bitchgan. It counts as a victory for The Ohio State Buckeyes. The next three games are vacated by Bitchgan. They have not won since 2011.

Oklahoma, Texas is the greatest revelry in sports. FACT

Alabama-Auburn or 03/04 Yankees-Red Sox would like to have a word with you.

It’s not the greatest rivalry! Get over yourself

Most of the world doesn’t give a rat’s ass about this game. College football is not the most followed sport in the world. The USA is not the world. Try traveling outside of the USA!

Go BUCKEYES! BEAT XICHIGAN! BEAT THE XAZE AND BLUE! GO ONE AND ZERO THIS WEEK!

Didn’t watch, just here to say it isn’t and to dislike 😂

A great regional rivalry. Neither team will win the Natty.

The chance to name their rivalry "The War" is such a wasted opportunity.

There are so many better rivalries than this one. Yankees/Red Sox would honestly be my pick for greatest rivalry.