{"id":1246,"date":"2015-11-28T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/11\/ohio-state-showed-up-to-play-football.html"},"modified":"2015-11-28T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T15:36:00","slug":"ohio-state-showed-up-to-play-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/11\/ohio-state-showed-up-to-play-football.html","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State showed up to play football"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So the fabled rivalry continues to snooze, since Michigan, no matter what OSU is going through, seems completely <a href=\"http:\/\/fox8.com\/2015\/11\/28\/go-buckeyes-its-time-for-the-ohio-state-michigan-game\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">unable to beat the Buckeyes<\/a>. \u00a0Last week, it\u2019s impossible to know what happened. \u00a0One of the worst performances I\u2019ve ever witnessed. \u00a0One of the best, most explosive runners being told to stand aside so we could run the same ineffective play over and over again. \u00a0Some say Meyer was thrown off by the rain. \u00a0Perhaps. \u00a0I don\u2019t know. But if Ohio State would have played all season the way they played in their decimation of Michigan today, there would be no questions. \u00a0Ohio State would have the Big 10 Championship all but wrapped up, and a clear place in the playoffs. \u00a0As it is, we\u2019ll have a bowl game. \u00a0Who knows, maybe a decent one. \u00a0But once again, OSU dominated and trounced the Team Up North, and once more Michigan will put out another class that knows not what it is to win against the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Devin+Gardner+Michigan+v+Ohio+State+Id-qgn836fWl.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">An oft repeated image in the rivalry nowadays<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>Now it\u2019s time to put on the white and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/spartans\/index.ssf\/2015\/11\/its_do-or-die_time_for_michiga.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cheer on the Nittany Lions<\/a>. \u00a0Go Penn State!<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the fabled rivalry continues to snooze, since Michigan, no matter what OSU is going through, seems completely unable to beat the Buckeyes. \u00a0Last week, it\u2019s impossible to know what happened. \u00a0One of the worst performances I\u2019ve ever witnessed. \u00a0One of the best, most explosive runners being told to stand aside so we could run 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