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ESPN predicts the winner between Michigan football, Ohio State Buckeyes in 2025
The tide has turned in the Ohio State, Michigan football battle. After the Buckeyes went on an eight-game winning streak over the Wolverines from 2012-2019, Michigan has defeated Ohio State four-straight times since 2021. Michigan dominated in the trenches the past four seasons, and even with a much-less talented roster in 2024, the Wolverines did the unthinkable in Ohio Stadium as a 20-point underdog. Michigan went into Columbus and took down the eventual national champions, 13-10.
Ohio State went on to win the national title in the new 12-team College Football Playoff. But when the 2025 season starts up, the lead-up to ‘The Game’ will be talked about on a weekly basis. Sherrone Moore and his new five-star QB Bryce Underwood will get the Buckeyes in Ann Arbor in 2025, and Ryan Day still has to show he can get that monkey off his back. Right now, plenty of analysts all have the same mindset: ‘Can’t predict Ohio State to win that game until they can prove it can.’
ESPN’s David Hale is in a similar boat. In ESPN’s ‘100 days to college football….’, Hale predicts Michigan to beat Ohio State for the fifth year in a row.
“The Buckeyes are national champions. Last year’s team was elite, and this year’s could be just as good. There’s no reason to be anything but joyous in Columbus,” Hale wrote. “Only … the fine folks from that state up north do have something of a trump card. Michigan’s four straight wins over Ohio State make for some pretty good bragging rights, even if the playoff trophy resides at the Horseshoe. Last year’s astonishing Buckeyes loss might’ve cost Ryan Day his job had the playoff not expanded to 12 and given Ohio State a second bite at the apple. And so, when this year’s game comes around on Nov. 29, the buzz won’t be about Ohio State’s 2025 championship game win. It will be about the four straight losses, and that’s an awfully big monkey now living on Day’s back. So, we won’t be too shocked if that dark cloud looms so large that the Buckeyes stumble yet again thanks to all of the outside noise. Would the Ohio State faithful be OK with a fifth straight loss to Michigan if it was followed by a second straight national title?”
Michigan vs. Ohio State is arguably the greatest rivalry in all of sports. Duke-North Carolina, Red Sox-Yankees, and Celtics-Lakers are a few others, but you can make the argument that when the Wolverines and Buckeyes face off on Thanksgiving weekend — everyone tunes in. Which is why that should usually be a top-five game to watch every single year, right?
Not this year, according to ESPN’s Bill Connelly. In the same article as Hale predicted Michigan to beat OSU, Connelly ranked the top 10 games to watch this upcoming season. He put ‘The Game’ at No. 10 on the list. Games like Boise State-Notre Dame, Texas A&M-Notre Dame, and Montana State-Montana all ranked higher than the Big Ten powers.
“The Buckeyes couldn’t lose a fifth straight to the Wolverines … right?,” Connelly wrote.
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A Michigan State Police trooper is recovering after the patrol vehicle they were in was hit by a car on Detroit’s west side Sunday morning, the state agency said.
Troopers were investigating a fatal collision on Interstate 96 near Outer Drive when a crash involving a semitruck and an SUV happened at a nearby exit ramp, officials said.
The trooper who was hurt was sitting in the patrol car with its emergency lights on during the investigation into the exit ramp crash when the car hit the passenger side of the law enforcement vehicle, according to the state agency. The trooper was taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Officials said the driver of the car that hit the patrol vehicle, identified as a female of undisclosed age, refused medical treatment. Troopers determined while interviewing her that she was “impaired by both alcohol and narcotics,” according to the state agency.
The female was arrested and taken to the hospital for a blood draw, according to officials.
“Please slow down, focus on the roadway, move over for emergency vehicles,” Michigan State Police First Lieutenant Mike Shaw said in a written statement.
Charges against the female are pending.
Michigan and Michigan State conclude their regular seasons with another game in their long and intense men’s basketball rivalry.
Tip-off is Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at the Crisler Center in Ann Arbor, and the game will be televised by CBS.
No. 3 Michigan (28-2, 18-1 Big Ten) has already clinched the Big Ten regular-season championship outright, but No. 8 MSU (25-5, 15-4) will look to put a blemish on the Wolverines as both teams head to conference and NCAA Tournament play.
In the first meeting this season, Michigan prevailed 83-71 at the Breslin Center on Jan. 30, snapping a four-game losing streak in the series. It was UM’s first win in East Lansing since January 2018. Michigan’s Yaxel Lendeborg had 26 points and 12 rebounds, while Jeremy Fears Jr. scored a career-high 31 for the Spartans.
The Michigan vs. Michigan State rivalry began in 1909 and the Wolverines lead the all-time series 98-92.
Michigan State at Michigan
▶ Tipoff: 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Crisler Center, Ann Arbor
▶ TV/radio: CBS/760, 94.7
▶ Records: No. 3 Michigan 28-2, 18-1 Big Ten; No. 8 Michigan State 25-5, 15-4
▶ Outlook: This is the regular-season finale for both teams. Michigan won the first meeting, 83-71, on Jan. 30 in East Lansing and is seeking its first sweep since 2014. The Wolverines will celebrate senior day and their outright Big Ten regular-season title during a postgame ceremony.
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An EF-3 tornado moved through Union City, Michigan, during Friday night’s severe storms in the southwest part of the state, according to the National Weather Service.
The federal agency said three people were killed and 12 others were injured in the Branch County twister, which had a wind speed of at least 165 mph — just 1 mph shy of an EF-4 classification on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
Several homes in the area of Tuttle Road and Prairie Rose Lane were severely damaged by the twister, according to the agency.
Officials said Saturday that only a small portion of the tornado’s possible track has been assessed and that other details, including how far it went and how long it lasted, “will be released as they become available.”
The last EF-3 tornado that touched down in Michigan was in Gaylord in 2022.
A twister was reported in Three Rivers, Michigan, on Friday, though the National Weather Service hasn’t confirmed the report. Three Rivers is around 30 miles southwest of Union City.
Sheriff Clint Roach of Cass County, which is around 30 miles west of Three Rivers, said a 12-year-old boy, identified as Silas Anderson, was killed in Friday’s storms.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Saturday on social media that she would be declaring a state of emergency for Branch, Cass and St. Joseph counties.
According to the Michigan State Police, the Salvation Army and the nonprofit Disaster Relief at Work were going door-to-door on Saturday with meals and cleaning supplies in Union City and Three Rivers.
Anyone who was impacted by Friday’s severe weather and needs resources is asked to call 211.
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