Best photos of Ohio State vs Michigan on Saturday

We share some of the best high-resolution photos of Ohio State football’s loss to the Michigan Wolverines on Saturday in Ohio Stadium.

OK, we know you may not be in the mood to look at some high-resolution photos of Ohio State football’s latest loss to Michigan, but maybe you might want to zone out and just look at some mind-numbing photos of those two uniforms on the field that lets you know you are watching college football royalty.

Or, maybe you are a Michigan fan and found this website. If so, we’d like to say welcome, but can’t bring ourselves to do so. Regardless, there was a lot of media in attendance for the latest installment of “The Game,” so that means there were a ton of photos snapped too.

We’ve poured through them to bring you the best of the best photos for you to scroll through and think about what should have been.

We’d say happy scrolling, but we know it’ll probably be a pretty solemn effort.

Michigan quarterback Davis Warren has bold comments for Ohio State players after flag planting

Do you agree with what Warren said? #GoBucks

Many Ohio State players were upset at the Michigan team trying to plant the flag on the Block O in the middle of Ohio Stadium after the Wolverines won a hard-fought 13-10 victory on Saturday afternoon — their fourth-straight win in the rivalry.

It ruffled so many feathers on the OSU sideline that a significant melee broke out that resulted in pepper spray being used to control things by the police on the field. Head coach Ryan Day said that Ohio State had some “prideful guys” that “weren’t going to let that happen.”

Michigan quarterback Davis Warren was asked about the incident and what unfolded afterward and seemed to rub salt in the wound of the OSU psyche by shrugging it off as something the Buckeyes could have prevented from occurring.

“We’re going to win in your house and we’re gonna plant the flag,” Warren told reporters after the game. “You should’ve done something about it.”

OK, well, I don’t know that’s exactly what I would teach my kids or players I coach in a competitive environment, but I guess he has a point for those that think there’s more than a college football game at stake here. I’d rather teach competitors to respect the opponent and both win (ahem, Michigan) and lose (looking at you Ohio State) with class.

Neither of that happened in the aftermath of “The Game” on Saturday and nobody should be proud of how it all unfolded.

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Ryan Day forces Ohio State to decide if beating Michigan is more important than the College Football Playoff

Ryan Day and Ohio State have reached a crossroads.

Ohio State head coach Ryan Day made his priorities very clear when he was first announced as Urban Meyer’s successor in Columbus.

“Win the rivalry game and then win every game after that,” Day said, in that order, at his 2018 introduction.

It was a great quip, for sure, but there’s no mistaking the truth behind it. Michigan may represent the game, but it’s not the last game of the year. It’s not the Big Ten championship or the College Football Playoff.

That mentality has put Day and Ohio State in a fascinating position on Saturday after Michigan — a three-touchdown underdog — handed the No. 2 Buckeyes a fourth consecutive defeat in the rivalry game, 13-10.

The problem with institutions telling their fan bases that beating one single team is more important than anything else is that, after long enough, they start to internalize it.

So now what?

Put extremely simply: Ohio State must decide if a four-game losing streak to Michigan is more important than any of Day’s accomplishments. If the answer is yes, the next question is can Ohio State do any better than its current head coach?

Ohio State, with it’s $20 million dollar roster, is 10-2 and almost certainly heading to the College Football Playoff for the fourth time under Day. Was that money well spent if it doesn’t come with a victory over The Team Up North?

How then to square the Buckeyes’ primal need to beat Michigan with the reality of modern college football? A College Football Playoff appearance is worth significantly more than a single win over Michigan. The extra cash dolled out to participants cannot be understated on the eve of revenue sharing in college sports.

Those are the metrics that are supposed to matter. Yet earlier this week, Day upped the pressure on The Game when he said losing to the Wolverines was comparable to the death of his father. Senior Buckeyes talked about the pain of having never beat the Wolverines. It all makes for a wildly uncomfortable situation.

The current coaching market is thin, and while fans are already demanding Mike Vrabel come home, there’s no guarantee he will — or even that it would provide an upgrade. There’s certainly no guarantee Ohio State will have another run of playoff appearances like Day has provided.

These hypotheticals don’t cool off Day’s seat any, of course, but this is the discussion happening among Ohio State boosters and officials.

If the lasting imagine in Columbus is the Buckeyes’ coach standing still as his players brawl after another Michigan loss, it’ll reinforce the idea that Ohio State must “win the rivalry game and then win every game after that.” It’ll also overshadow everything else Day’s done for the school — all the titles, the elite recruit wins and the players he’s sent to the NFL.

Day has beaten Michigan before, and while it seems like an eternity since the Buckeyes won this game, Ohio State was 17-3 over the Wolverines for the first 20 years of this century.

So now we’re left to wonder how Ohio State navigates the rich pain of remaining one of the sport’s elite programs who still can’t seem to satisfy its fan base.

Will a single Saturday in November outweigh banners that hang forever? We’ll find out soon enough.

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WATCH: Everything Sherrone Moore said about Ohio State after the game

Everything Sherrone Moore said after his team beat Ohio State Saturday. #GoBucks

The Michigan football team came into the Horseshoe and beat Ohio State once again — now for the fourth time in a row despite being three touchdown underdogs according to Vegas coming into the contest.

Clearly, the Buckeyes are the better team but they weren’t on Saturday because of a pedestrian game plan and far too many mental and physical mistakes. At the end of the day, the Wolverines did just enough to win a low scoring, 13-10 affair.

Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore met with the media in Columbus to discuss the game and was clearly pleased — scratch that — elated with his team’s victory on Saturday and was happy to field questions.

If you didn’t catch what Moore said about Ohio State after the game, we have it thanks to video we took from our YouTube channel. In it you can hear about how proud he is of his team, comments on the postgame scuffle, the mindset of his team coming into the contest, and more.

It may seem like the end of the world right now, but Ohio State’s season isn’t over. It won’t make the Big Ten Championship game but will still almost assuredly be a part of the 12-team College Football Playoff.

More to come on that later.

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WATCH: Ryan Day searches for answers in Michigan postgame press conference

Day had to face the music after the loss Saturday. Watch and listen to what he said. #GoBucks

It’s official. Ohio State lost to Michigan once again, its fourth-straight in the rivalry and now the players, coaches, and fans are left to pick up the pieces. OSU head coach Ryan Day knows what this game means and was clearly devastated afterwards when he met with the media to face the music.

Day lamented the inability to run the ball, execute in the red zone, and ultimately, do enough to win and send all of those seniors that came back for one more season out the right way.

It was a vey solemn press conference for Day, and we have the entire thing here in case you missed any of his comments. The video is courtesy of the CBS affiliate, WBNS 10TV in Columbus.

Watch and listen to Day as he answers questions on his future, the inability to adjust on offense with the game plan, the postgame brawl that occurred after Michigan tried to plant its flag at midfield, and more.

Ohio State will now look to see what its College Football Playoff seed will be moving forward. The season is not over, but the team will have to try and move forward after a crushing defeat.

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12 wild Ohio State-Michigan photos from the post-game fight

The Buckeyes and Wolverines started throwing hands after Michigan pulled off the upset and planted its flag.

Michigan upset No. 2 Ohio State on Saturday in Columbus, winning 13-10 in The Game — the fourth consecutive win for the Wolverines in the longtime rivalry between two of the Big Ten’s signature programs.

Embattled Buckeyes’ head coach Ryan Day is now 1-4 against Michigan in his five-year tenure leading Ohio State. Needless to say, Ohio State fans were not happy with his play-calling against the Wolverines.

After the game, as Michigan coach Sherrone Moore waved to unhappy Buckeyes fans, the Wolverines took to midfield to plant their flag on Ohio State’s logo. And the Buckeyes did not take too kindly to that act of territory marking.

And so, as Day watched dumbfoundedly, a brawl ensued at midfield. Local law enforcement reportedly deployed pepper spray, adding to the chaos of an absolutely wild scene in the latest chapter of this rivalry. At least one Michigan player blamed Ohio State for starting the skirmish.

In the middle of it all were photojournalists for the Columbus Dispatch and the USA Today Network. Here are some of the images they captured:

Players scrum at midfield following Saturday’s NCAA Division I football game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Michigan Wolverines. Barbara J. Perenic / Columbus Dispatch-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Michigan Wolverines and Ohio State Buckeyes fight following the NCAA football game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. Michigan won 13-10.
Police intervene as Michigan Wolverines and Ohio State Buckeyes fight following the NCAA football game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. Michigan won 13-10.
Michigan Wolverines celebrate following the NCAA football game against the Ohio State Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. Michigan won 13-10.
Michigan Wolverines and Ohio State Buckeyes fight following the NCAA football game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. Michigan won 13-10.
Michigan Wolverines and Ohio State Buckeyes fight following the NCAA football game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. Michigan won 13-10.
Ohio State Buckeyes defensive end Jack Sawyer (33) throws a Michigan flag take from opposing players at midfield following Saturday’s NCAA Division I at Ohio Stadium, a 13-10 win for the Wolverines.
Michigan Wolverines offensive lineman Myles Hinton (78) goes after Ohio State Buckeyes safety Jaylen McClain (18) after the game during a fight at the middle of the field after the NCAA football game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024.
Ohio State Buckeyes and Michigan Wolverines fight following the NCAA football game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. Michigan won 13-10.
Ohio State Buckeyes and Michigan Wolverines fight following the NCAA football game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. Michigan won 13-10.
Michigan Wolverines offensive lineman Myles Hinton (78) goes after Ohio State Buckeyes safety Jaylen McClain (18) after the game during a fight at the middle of the field after the NCAA football game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024.
Michigan Wolverines offensive lineman Myles Hinton (78) goes after Ohio State Buckeyes safety Jaylen McClain (18) after the game during a fight at the middle of the field after the NCAA football game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024.

Photos by Adam Cairns, Barbara J. Perenic and Kyle Robertson of the Columbus Dispatch.

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Extended video of Michigan-Ohio State postgame fight

Things got crazy after Ohio State lost to Michigan in Columbus

There have been pieces of the fight after the battle on the football field between Michigan and Ohio State on Saturday.

The Wolverines planted their flag on the “O” logo at midfield and it was on.

Ohio State players attacked and both teams were in the middle of it for what seemed five 5-10 minutes.

A look at the whole ruckus.

Michigan’s Kalel Mullings calls out Ohio State for sparking post-game brawl

“They gotta learn how to lose man.”

Michigan senior Kalel Mullings did not mince any words after the Wolverines’ massive upset of No. 2 Ohio State on Saturday was upstaged by a post-game brawl at midfield.

In an interview with the Fox broadcast after police and field security had finally separated all the players, the tailback placed the blame squarely on Ohio State players for storming Michigan’s celebration as the Wolverines planted their flag at midfield (which they have in the past after beating the Buckeyes).

Ohio State players tried to rip the flag away from the Wolverines. Michigan players took it right back and chaos ensued, pepper spray was seemingly used on both teams and the Buckeyes turned a bad day into an embarrassment.

Or as Mullings put it: Ohio State acted like sore losers.

“They gotta learn how to lose man,” Mullings said. “You can’t be fighting and stuff just because you lost a game. We had 60 minutes, four quarters to do all that fighting and now people want to talk and fight?

“That’s wrong. Bad for the game and classless in my opinion.”

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WATCH: Tempers flare after Ohio State loses to Michigan in postgame brawl

Not a good look for either team.

The Ohio State football team lost to Michigan once again — its fourth-straight in the rivalry. There were plenty of mistakes and missteps that contributed to the ugly, 13-10 result, but none of it was as ugly as what unfolded after the contest.

Once the clock struck 0:00, Michigan players began to wave goodbye to the crowd and then attempted to plant the “Block M” flag at midfield on the “Block O” of Ohio Stadium. That clearly led to some hurt feelings and defensive aggressions from OSU players that ran to stop the scene from unfolding.

Watch as Ohio State and Michigan engage in a significant squirmish after the game that seemed to result in some injuries, pepper spray (reportedly), and more at midfield on the banks of the Olentangy thanks to video from Nicole Shearin of WBNS 10TV in Columbus.

This is an ugly, ugly scene for college football and we clearly don’t condone this behavior. Both teams will blame the other, but it’s clear that both could have showed more class both in winning and losing.

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LaNorris Sellers caps monster day with TD run as South Carolina rocks Clemson

LaNorris Sellers came up enormous for South Carolina

LaNorris Sellers scored on a 20-yard run with 1:08 left on Saturday to give South Carolina 17-14 win over Clemson.

The rivalry victory knocked the Tigers out of the CFP playoff hunt in all likelihood and pushed the Gamecocks, who have won seven in a row, into the mix.

The nine-play, 75-yard drive ate up 4:01 on the clock.

Sellers threw for 164 yards. He rushed 16 times for 166 yards and both Gamecock touchdonwns.