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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Buckeyes can add misery to Wolverines, keep UM from bowl
With a trip to the Rose Bowl wrapped up, what motivation could be paramount when Ohio State travels to Michigan on Saturday?
Adding extreme misery to the Wolverines’ already collapsing season, perhaps.
Mark Snyder of the Detroit Free Press wrapped it up nicely with his lead-in sentence to this “Extra Points” column on Michigan:
Michigan fans can’t imagine a lower bottom, but each week brings unimaginable pain.
Michigan enters the game 5-6 (not to mention 1-6 in the conference), but after Ohio State’s loss to Purdue, some Buckeyes fans might have been distracted enough by the team’s own prospects that they might not have taken the usual time to keep an eye on Michigan.
In the past few weeks, the season has turned arguably into one worse than last year’s effort. With the promising start to this season, Wolverines fans were given hope. Now, that hope is gone.
So, with a win on Saturday, Ohio State could keep Michigan from a bowl game for a second straight season as well as win an outright Big Ten championship.
How likely is that? Here are Snyder’s “Two Cents” on the matter:
The only amazing thing about this team is that there’s not more public sniping between the players. The offense has shown first-half success recently but seems to get so deflated by the defensive atrocities, there’s no room for error. Throw in the off-field drama with the starting quarterback and a win next week, earning a bowl game would be miraculous.
