The Rivalry Is Renewed

    It’s that sacred week that graces us with it’s presence at the end of November. It usually greets us with a crisp autumn breeze, beautiful red, orange, and brown leaves, and maybe even a few snowflakes on the ground. The intense passion of two of college football’s greatest programs seeps throughout the cities from which they hail. It goodness versus evil, in pigskin form. This week of intense rivalry is a week unlike any other. This year, finally, that passion and intense hatred for the other rival, returns to the banks of the Olentangy River. Finally, the rivalry is restored. We’ve all heard the stories. From Woody hiring policemen to keep Bo from lurking over the Ohio State practices, to Bo putting the number “50” on the helmets of each member of his football team to remind them of the dominance that occurred against them the year before. That history, that hatred, that utter sense of disgust for each other, was lost for quite a few years. In no way was it a “bad” thing for ...