Reporter Claims Penn State – Not Michigan – Is Greatest Threat To Ohio State

If there’s one factor you’d have thought that the great people down in Columbus would have discovered after 2021, it is that the Michigan Wolverines are achieved taking part in the position of doormat to the Ohio State Buckeyes. 

In one of the crucial dominant performances towards Ohio State in nicely over twenty years, the Wolverines spent the higher a part of the afternoon slapping round their archnemesis in entrance of 110,000 plus within the Huge Home – cruising to a 42-27 victory. The win on Nov. 27 would place Michigan in Indianapolis for the Huge Ten Championship sport and finally result in this system’s forty third convention championship, greater than every other program within the convention. 

As Michigan enters the 2022 season because the defending champions, you desire to that the parents in Columbus could be keenly conscious that Michigan poses the best menace to Ohio State’s championship hopes and longstanding dominance throughout the convention.. In earlier circumstances the place Michigan might solely lean on unimaginable services, ethical victories and tutorial achievements, the Wolverines can now current big-time recruits with an important recruiting device applications have at their disposal – the {hardware}.   

Even with a devastating loss to the Wolverines and the truth that Michigan captured the convention championship because of this, at the least one reporter in Columbus does not view the Wolverines as a lot of a menace. The truth is, he claims that its Penn State – not Michigan – that poses the best menace to the Buckeyes transferring ahead.

Sure, I am severe.

This is only a little bit of what Buckeyes reporter Austin Ward needed to say:

Penn State is actually a notch under Michigan in terms of being labeled a rivalry, and that’s not going to alter. However in terms of probably the most aggressive sequence and establishing which program is really the most important menace to Ohio State’s reign of dominance within the Huge Ten, the Nittany Lions have clearly surpassed the Wolverines.

The bragging rights and Gold Pants is perhaps what the Buckeyes wish to win most yearly. But when they’re going to maintain sporting the convention crown or earn one other spot within the School Soccer Playoff, the crew they want to beat most is Penn State.

Certain, he makes a good level that the Nittany Lions have put up extra of a battle that the Wolverines during the last decade, however that is additionally a ‘what have you ever achieved for me currently’ world – and the fact is that Michigan at present runs the Huge Ten convention. That is one of many perks that comes together with being the defending convention champion. 

From there, Ward’s article closes out with a press release that was clearly written by means of Scarlet and Gray glasses – implying that Ohio State owns the convention and that Penn State has someway taken over the second spot from presumably Michigan.  

And whereas Penn State is perhaps the third wheel within the rivalry dialogue, there’s actually little doubt that it has taken over the second spot within the Huge Ten pecking order.

There is definitely a pecking order in terms of the Huge Ten Convention, however it does not look the way in which it did previous to 2021. It is clear that some people in Columbus are nonetheless struggling to come back to phrases with that.