Jalen Rose: Michigan is ‘gonna win this year’ at Ohio State

Why the former Wolverines star expects the maize and blue to take down the scarlet and grey this season.

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Even the most ardent Michigan fans would be hesitant to pick the football team to beat rival Ohio State at this juncture. Of course, that’s the highest thing on the list for the maize and blue faithful, but the Wolverines haven’t beaten the Buckeyes since 2011 and have been blown out the last two seasons.

But Jalen Rose, a former Michigan basketball player, isn’t just any ordinary Michigan fan.

On the ESPN morning show Get Up!, Mike Greenberg asked Rose about the upcoming schedule, including the one-off change of U-M playing OSU on Oct. 24 rather at the end of the regular season, and Rose had an interesting response.

“I’m trying to be there, because this is gonna be one of the first times in the last two decades that we actually beat Ohio State,” Rose said. “So I need to be there! I need to be there!”

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Ok, we’re gonna need some kind of justification here.

“Just think about what’s happening in our country right now, Greeny: this is the perfect time for a solar apocalypse to happen in Ann Arbor and our players play so very well regardless of where we play against the Buckeyes,” Rose continued. “We’re gonna get a win this year! That’s right, I said it! Save this footage! Michigan will beat the Buckeyes in football this year!”

Certainly, it’s possible, but we have to see it happen before we predict anything of this nature.

As Rose’s cohost, Jacoby notes, the former Wolverines star predicting the Michigan football team to beat Ohio State is something of an annual tradition at this point.

They play games for a reason, and The Game will take place at Ohio Stadium on Oct. 24 per the revamped Big Ten schedule.

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