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In what was a shocker to not only the players and the coaching staff but the fans of both teams, last year Ohio State beat Michigan 62-39. It was a battle of two top 10 teams with the winner going to play in the Big Ten Championship game against Northwestern and it ended up being a blowout in favor of Ohio State.
The win was the biggest by the Buckeyes since 2015, the first year Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh took on the Buckeyes, where they won 42-13. It wasn’t the fact that Ohio State won by so much, but the fact that they were able to score as many points as they did, and against the best defense in the country at the time.
Michigan just didn’t have an answer to it as it was the biggest loss defensive coordinator Don Brown ever had against Ohio State. That wasn’t his worst loss ever at Michigan though. That was in 2017 when Michigan lost 42-13 against Penn State. He got his revenge from that loss last season, beating Penn State 42-7. 2019 is his chance to get it against Ohio State.
Brown will be certainly ready to get his guys in shape for this year’s game, and the players haven’t let the results from last year’s game change what will happen this year against Ohio State.
“We closed the book on last year,” Michigan captain and starting guard Ben Bredeson said. “We know what happened, they know what happened. Last year’s score won’t affect the game at all. We know what it takes — we know what we did wrong, we know what we did well. We’re just looking to correct that.”
While the players can look past what happened last season, that doesn’t mean they can’t use it as a learning tool to get better and help them out this season.
“It fuels us,” Hudson said. “We know what happened last year, we know what we did that we messed up on and what we’re gonna do this year to fix the problems. The score last year is what it is, can’t nothing change it. All you can do is focus on this year’s game. We control our own destiny, how the game will go.”
While revenge might not be the main point of this year’s game between the team, Brown and his players will be looking to dish up a huge upset to the Buckeyes. Nobody on the team has ever beaten Ohio State, no Wolverine has since 2011 and this year would be a perfect chance for Michigan to send a surprise to the Buckeyes.
What better way to avenge a 62-39 loss from last season, then to give Ohio State their first loss this season, big or small, and end the eight-year drought that has been felt in Schembechler Hall
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