It may not have any effect on the Big 10 title race, but it is still Ohio State-Michigan this weekend in Ann Arbor. Possibly the most important competition in all of sports, “The Game” does not need any added motivations to up the significance. It is the largest game each season for these two teams.

Ohio State enters the game commanding the heated series, victors of 7 sequential games. The Buckeyes have outplayed Michigan 218-108 in the streak. Nonetheless after an offseason of chaos in Columbus that bled into a season of discontent, the Buckeyes enter the 108th renewing of “The Game” with a 6-5 record and as 8.5-point underdogs. On the other end of the range is Michigan. After 3 topsy-turvy years of Rich Rodriguez, the culture was fell back to the good ol ‘ days of Schembechler, Moeller and Carr with the hire of Michigan Man Brady Hoke. “Hoke was not on the radar of most people, and he was mostly considered – in baseball terms – a sac bunt when he was hired,” Michael Spath, a senior writer at TheWolverine.com, recounted.

“However, he modified peoples’s angles about him at his first press meeting. It was clear he loved this place, he accepted this place and he was going to bring back the culture of 132 years of Michigan convention. “Since that day in Jan , he is done everything right, beginning with contracting an incredible staff, inducting his rear off, invading Ohio for a large amount of big-name children and taking each top prospect in the state of Michigan from MSU coming off a Gigantic 10 Championship season, and naturally, he is won. Michigan fans love him.” After the 15-22 Rich Rod time, Michigan enters the season conclusion ranked 17th in the country with a 9-2 record. On the line : a BCS game. Who’d have assumed that was possible a year back?