An interesting trend

College football must be getting near. There are several ways you can determine the near-arrival of America’s Greatest Sport.

-The calendar says “August”
-Pre-season polls are almost all completed and published
-Tommy Tuberville finds the keys to his waaahmbulance
-Traffic on Big Ten Bloggers sites begin to spike
-Michigan fans start to attack my YouTube videos en masse.

I want to focus on that last one because…well, it’s easy to make fun of Michigan fans when their noses are knocked out of joint. And trust me, those noses get whacked hard when any of them see the video for “Chad Henne Is A Joke“.

It’s also relatively easy to tell what argument Michigan fans are going to use when they post a response on my YouTube vids. They go with one of two hissy-fits.

Hissy fit #1 – “Fuck you, Chad Henne will be starting for the Dolphins on Day One. What’s Troy Smith doing, getting water for the team?”

Well, actually, Smith is projected to start for the Ravens, but with a new coach in Baltimore, all three QBs are going to get plenty of looks in the pre-season (Kyle Boller, Smith, and John Flacco, whose college team wore the ugliest helmet ever). But if you really want to know what Troy Smith is doing, just ask him. He’ll tell you after he takes off his four pairs of gold pants, his four Big Ten Championship rings, and his National Championship ring (yes, he was on the team in 2002 and got a ring)

As for Henne, he might start for the worst team in the NFL, but the fact is that he started for one of the better NCAA teams and still went 0-4 against his biggest rival. That’s something he will never be able to change.

Hissy fit #2 – “Oh yeah, well Michigan holds the all-time lead 57-41-6. Who owns who now?

Listen, from my experience, Michigan fans are the first ones that will tell you of their early National Championships and the head-to-head totals between UM and OSU.

What they kindly forget is the time period in which most of those wins took place, especially the one where “back in 19-ott-eight, Phineaus Q. Rosenblatt ran for over 80 lengths in a match against the scallywags of Wesleyan College, giving them their second relegation of the Midwestern Football Amalgamation. He had the ladies blushing in their bloomers, he did.”

Most football historians will tell you that the sport took a great evolution around the mid-thirties and became the sport you know today. Major changes took place in that era, and most of them still exist today. Pop Warner threw the first forward pass in 1933, and by the next season, the entire league quickly adapted to it. College football was now more of an official nationwide sport, and it’s rebirth was complete. This is when the sport you know today took shape.

Also, this was around the time frame that Ivy League schools stopped winning the NC every other year, and balance began to form amongst the great teams.

So let’s look at the records from 1934-2008, shall we?

1934-1940

Ohio State 4, Michigan 3

1941-1950

Michigan 6, Ohio State 2, ties 2
Total – Michigan 9, Ohio State 6, 2 ties

1951-1960

Ohio State 6, Michigan 4
Total – Michigan 13, Ohio State 12, 2 ties

1961-1970

Ohio State 7, Michigan 3
Total – Ohio State 19, Michigan 16, 2 ties

1971-1980

Michigan 5, Ohio State 4, 1 tie
Total – Ohio State 23, Michigan 21, 3 ties

1981-1990

Michigan 6, Ohio State 4
Total – Michigan 27, Ohio State 27, 3 ties

1991-2000

Michigan 7, Ohio State 2, 1 tie
Total – Michigan 34, Ohio State 29, 4 ties

2001-present

Ohio State 6, Michigan 1
Total – Ohio State 35, Michigan 35, 4 ties.

Average score of those games – Michigan 16.4, Ohio State 16.0

The point is, once this sport actually became football as we know it, thes
e two teams have been as even as it can get. Your little domination when nobody really knew how to play the game only exists in your ego. Get over it.

Michigan doesn’t own Ohio State, Ohio State doesn’t own Michigan.

But Jim Tressel? He’s 6-1 against you. Bow down, bitches.