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Dwayne Haskins knows the stakes of the Michigan game COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer knows the pressures associated with the annual Michigan game. It’s the time of the year during which jobs are kept or lost and legacies are cemented.

These are pressures he has felt before.

“The amount of time and effort that you put into these games — and certainly there’s no bigger than this — you know, the word ‘pressure’ absolutely is there,” Meyer said.

“For someone to say there’s no pressure, that’s not true.”

These pressures were introduced to redshirt sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins last season.

After former Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett left the 2017 Michigan game in the third quarter with an injury, the spotlight was on Haskins, who had played in parts of eight previous games that season.

“I’d say I was pretty calm in that situation,” Haskins said. “I didn’t have too many racing thoughts or thoughts of concern or of selfdoubt.”

With a 20-14 deficit in the third quarter, Haskins helped the Ohio State offense score 17 unanswered points, completing 6-of-7 passes for 94 yards in the come-from-behind, 31-20 Ohio State win.

Haskins said going into the atmosphere and gaining the trust of his teammates through his play in the second half gave him confi-

“It starts today, so we are going to get ready for them right now.”

DWAYNE HASKINS Ohio State redshirt sophomore quarterback

dence as he took the starting quarterback job in 2018, leading Ohio State to its No. 4 pass offense in the country.

But he has had no lack of confidence through 11 games in the 2018 season.

Now, as he leads Ohio State into the Michigan game as the starter, Haskins is developing not only confidence, but leadership and ownership of the offense.

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Meyer said.

“The quarterback position is the most unique position, in my opinion, in really all of sport, where everybody’s relying on you.

Everybody’s looking at you,” Meyer said.

“You have a responsibility what the other 10 guys are doing. You have to make all kinds of decisions within 1.8 to 2.5 seconds. And you have to be a tough guy. You have to lead.”

In the first possession of overtime against Maryland on Saturday, the redshirt sophomore quarterback led the Buckeyes downfield, extending the drive on a 4th-and-1 with an 11-yard completion to redshirt junior tight end Rashod Berry.

But that was not the play Meyer remembers. It was the 5-yard zone read, scoring the touchdown that wound up winning the game.

“Dwayne really took a step, really took a step,” Meyer said. “No more important than the last play of the game when he dropped his pads and had to get in there and he got in there.”

This is something offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Ryan Day has worked on with Haskins this season — to not just be the player who can play football, but be the player who can lead the team.

“The two of them — everybody has big dreams and part of being a big dream is being that guy that can move a team, not just throw a pretty pass but do things you have to do to win a game,” Meyer said.

That is going to be the difference between Haskins’ past Michigan game and Saturday.

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How many buckets? A jump through history EDWARD SUTELAN Editor-in-Chief sutelan.1@osu.edu

the Olentangy River.

“I would arguably say filling up Mirror Lake is more plausible because I’ve heard some bad things about the water quality of Down the drain. the Olentangy,” Kelly said. “I wouldn’t recOhio State students waited three years ommend anyone do that.” for Mirror Lake to reopen following conUniversity Student Government Vice struction, itching at the chance to once President Shawn Semmler said while USG again jump into the glorified pond to cele- understands the passion and desire to celebrate the “Hate Michigan” week. brate the week before the Michigan game, However, in an effort to prevent the there have to be other ways to celebrate it, jump from happening this year, Ohio State saying that “the No. 1 concern is the safety drained the lake of most of its water, turn- of the students.” ing the pond into a “The Mirpuddle, with only reror Lake jump sidual water and the and anything HOW MANY FOURday’s rain hovering that puts our over the mud floor. students’ safeGALLON BUCKETS Among the many ty at risk is ARE NEEDED TO FILL proposals presentnot the way to MIRROR LAKE? ed by students in an show our paseffort to replace the sion and disdain Mirror Lake jump for That Team * — jump in the OlenUp North,” tangy River, roll in Semmler said. the mud, stay warm But how realat home on a cold istic is it to fill *estimate based on statistics from November night — up Mirror Lake Office of Administration and Planning there was one that with buckets of truly encapsulates water? the idea of replacing the jump: Bring a For starters, Mirror Lake has the capacbucket of water to Mirror Lake and refill it ity to hold approximately 666,500 gallons the old fashioned way. of water, according to Dan Hedman, Ohio And how many buckets would it take? State Office of Administration and PlanIf the lake is empty, it will take 166,625. ning spokesman. The university has a stuIn other words, each student would have to dent population of 61,170 at the Columbus take about three buckets to the lake. campus, according to its 2018 enrollment Needless to say, that proposal sounds report. ridiculous, a concept with little chance of It should already be clear that there success even if there was a massive amount would have to be a massive amount of parof participation. ticipation in order for this pipe dream to It has found some traction with Arouse flow with water. But now, let’s take a look OSU, a student-run radio organization that at the buckets. created a Facebook event titled, “Bring a Most Ohio State students likely do not bucket of water to mirror lake,” complete have a collection of buckets lying around with various memes and a time for when at home. Fortunately, there are plenty of the event would take place. solutions to that. Remember how Ohio Grayson Kelly, a third-year in communi- State just brought a Target to campus? You cation and president of Arouse OSU, said might as well say now they brought the the idea developed when students received buckets to you. Or at least some of them. the email from Ohio State announcing the Target’s website lists several buckets that draining of the lake. Recalling a similar could work for all your Mirror Lake transidea by The Sundial, a student-run humor portation needs. There are several Sterilite magazine, to fill Mirror Lake up in May to four-gallon buckets for sale at $4.99 a pop protest the closure of several bars, he and and some MyRide Wash Bucket three-galhis friends thought to post about it on Face- lon buckets at $6.99. Between the cost, book. storage capacity and thicker handle that The idea to jump in is, “what I think we would make it easier on the hands, Sterilite all realize is just a satirical joke,” Kelly looks like the way to go. said. He said only 1,500 people have liked How many buckets would it take then the page on Facebook and that nobody is to fill all that up? If students choose to go taking it too seriously. with the four-gallon buckets, it will take However, he believes this concept to be 166,625 buckets. If they’re all the four-galBUCKETS CONTINUES ON 3 more plausible than the idea of jumping in

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ZACH VARDA Campus Editor varda.6@osu.edu

Wrapping up the early years are two references that were common throughout the history of Mirror Lake: a tug-of-war between freshmen and sophomores across the The annual jump into Mirror Lake will lake and Bucket and Dipper members benot take place. After tragedy struck at ing initiated by being thrown into the lake. the last jump when a student died nearly These traditions would continue for three years ago, the university drained the years, but their first mentions came in 1911 lake this year and threatened legal action and 1915 respectively, with the tug-of-war against anyone who enters the empty basin. being an especially colorful experience.

Random student-led campaigns have “It took just three minutes, which seemed been popping up across social media — to the spectators like three hours, for the from bringing buckets of water to the lake Freshmen to drag the Sophomores through to “raving” in the mud. But how far back Mirror Lake in the annual Tug-o’-War last does the idea of students jumping, or being Thursday afternoon,” The Lantern read on thrown, into Mirror Lake go?

May 24, 1911. “At 4:48 President ThompA cursory search on Google shows that son gave the first signal and both teams the Mirror Lake Jump during Michigan grasped the rope and set their feet in the week goes back to the 1990s, but keep holes that had been made for them, and a looking, and the history of Mirror Lake moment later the second shot was fired and goes back further and is stranger than you the struggle began. At 4:53 the contest had might think. been finished and thirty husky Freshmen To gain a better understanding of the were beaming with smiles as they pulled history of Mirror Lake, the first stop was the last wet Soph out of the water.” a study by John H. Herrick in 1984 that Freshmen hazing intensifies detailed the history of Mirror Lake HolFrom the first reference in 1902 to the low, which cited many past issues of The year 1920, there were a few mentions here Lantern. From there, the digital Lantern and there of freshmen being thrown into archives were consulted and a timeline was the lake for various reasons. But 1920 is developed. when it seems the tradition became more The early years serious with approval from student counSo what was the first reference of some- cil and the university president. The rules: one entering Mirror Lake? Well, it was in Freshmen must wear a specific cap at all 1895, and it was not a person. According times and not step foot on the Long Walk, to Lantern archives, a “horticulture wagon” the brick path across the Oval leading up to was pushed into the lake as a Halloween Thompson Library. prank.

Before you think this is a garish repre“With the exception of running the sentation of the past, don’t worry — only caissons over the campus and dumping the assigned enforcers, members of the the Horticultural wagon in the lake, the Bucket and Dipper club, were allowed to students were as toss freshmen in quiet as could be,” the lake. After The Lantern read all, some sense on Nov. 6, 1895. of decorum must “To guard against be upheld. trouble the street “At a meeting car authorities had of Bucket and heavy guards at Dipper Friday the end of the Neil it was decided avenue line and on that freshmen High street near would be givthe University. en three days of They were entiregrace in which ly unnecessary, no to comply with LANTERN ARCHIVES trouble whatever r e g u l a t i o n s ,” Cartoon from The Lantern front page on occurring.”

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Next stop: 1902, read on Sept. when the first ref18, 1920. “Anerence of freshmen other meeting being thrown into the lake occurred. There of the ‘strong-arm’ organization is called was plenty more of that to come, notably a for Wednesday, following which every rule front-page cartoon in 1909 depicting fresh- will be enforced to the letter.” men in the middle of the lake, dubbed the Three whole days of respite!

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Two students to appear in court after running into Mirror Lake AMANDA PARRISH Assistant Campus Editor parrish.272@osu.edu Ohio State University Police Division issued two summonses for Ohio State students Monday afternoon to appear in court after a video was posted online showing the students running into Mirror Lake, Ohio State spokesman Dan Hedman said in a statement.

The students received the summonses for criminal trespassing Monday afternoon following a video post that went viral showing the students running into the rain-filled basin early Sunday morning. The video was posted on the Instagram of Barstool Ohio State, a sports and pop culture blog.

“Mirror Lake is not intended, or approved, for recreational use of any kind or at any time,” Hedman said in a statement. “Entering the lake, or empty lake basin, is both destructive and hazardous and is considered criminal trespassing. The safety of our campus community remains our number one priority.”

The video shows two girls running into the lake that was relatively dry with only a few puddles of rainwater as another student watched from the side of the empty basin. As of Nov. 19, the video had more than 36,000 views.

Hedman did not specify how the two students were identified, but said the police “began an investigation” after becoming aware of the incident from Barstool Ohio State’s social media post.

On Nov. 10, Ohio State’s Department of Safety said in an email that the lake was drained in order to discourage the “Mirror Lake Jump,” a tradition for which students run and jump into the lake the Tuesday night before the Ohio State-Michigan football game.

In the email, students were reminded that jumping or running into the lake is considered trespassing and that the lake would continue to be monitored.

“The Ohio State University Police Division will continue to monitor the area, and public safety officials have discretion to determine appropriate enforcement action,” the email said.

In a previous interview with The Lantern, Undergraduate Student Government Vice President Shawn Semmler said he felt there was rhetoric among the student body suggesting the return of the jump in 2018 given the reopening of the lake this year.

Construction on Mirror Lake began in November 2016 and did not reopen until prior to the start of the 2018 fall semester.

USG voted in 2015 to end the tradition after an Ohio State student died from a broken neck after diving into the lake.

“In 2015, Undergraduate Student Government approved a resolution calling for the end of the ‘Mirror Lake Jump,’” the email said. “The recent lake restoration, as well as this week’s draining, supports the university’s compelling commitment to end the Mirror Lake jump.”

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cial set of rules under the threat of being up in a Lantern editorial with the followthrown into Mirror Lake: What could go ing reasons given for dunking: honorary wrong? initiates, fraternity seniors, pinned or enWell, freshmen could get fed up with gaged couples and any other willing soul. it and plan an event to burn the hats they This was the last real reference to dunking were being forced to wear. The Bucket and no mass dunking seemed to be taking and Dipper could try to postpone it. And place. at the end, a huge fight could ensue, endFinally, the last reference of Bucket and ing with police being called to the scene Dipper initiating members by dunking and a sophomore being hospitalized. them in Mirror Lake occurred in 1967.

That all could happen … and it all did.

But the nugget of information to leave “Ellis D. Hoag, Ag-2, was carried to the you with comes from 1964, when an enhospital and several other students were gaged couple “quarreled” at the lake; the slightly injured shortly after 1 o’clock today in a fight between city police and a crowd of students that had gathered to see Bucket and Dipper toss in freshmen,” The Lantern read May 21, 1926. “Police Captain T. Boggs said the affair will be investigated as soon as possible. Four uniformed officers, two detectives and Officer North were attempting to quiet the disorder, which began when freshman resisted efforts to duck them. Hoag was hit over the head with a blackjack by an officer in the turmoil that followed.”

Needless to say, the tradition of tossing freshmen ended that day.

In a Lantern article the following year about selecting officers for Bucket and Dipper, it was mentioned offhand that the university president had banned the dunking of freshmen.

COURTESY OF OHIO STATE Then this appeared in a Lantern editori- Mirror Lake pictured in 1879. al on May 5, 1929: “For all practical purposes, freshman rules are already a thing man took back the engagement ring and of the past. Although several attempts threw it in the lake, and the woman went have been made to revive the freshmen searching for it in a bikini. She was arresttaboos, and particularly the cap-wearing ed but the executive dean finally allowed tradition, the rules have been virtually her to resume the search in different attire. non-existent since Bucket and Dipper was “And then, about ten minutes after the shorn of its power to enforce them.” hunt began, she found the diamond ring.

Pour one out for tossing other students ‘I found it, I found it,’ she yelled,” The in the lake.

Lantern read on April 20, 1964. ‘“EveryFurther noteworthy events one wanted to know what I found, what I For all intents and purposes, no tra- had been looking for,’ she said, ‘but I went ditions with widespread participation right home.’”

LANTERN FILE PHOTO popped up between 1926 and the Mirror “The end of the story? Not quite. AfThe Mirror Lake jump during Michigan Lake jump becoming a Michigan week ter telling her startled fiancee Cornelius week began as a tradition in the 1990s. tradition in the ’90s, but Karalius, A-3, that she had recovered the BUCKETS FROM 2 there are some events ring, she met with a reporter who asked lon buckets, that will cost $831,458.75. Seems unlikely there worth noting. if things were all patched up. ‘Yep,’ she are that many buckets for sale in Columbus.

In 1942, tug-of-war smiled.”

There is also a bucket on wheels, another fine product by Sterilite that holds five gallons of water and is on sale for made another appear$11.99. If students are really feeling adventurous, they can ance for tradition week also purchase one of several Coleman or Igloo coolers for and stuck around for sale that would really fill the void in the lake. However, the May week in followidea that has circulated has been to bring buckets to fill the ing years. The last reference of tug-of-war lake. So we won’t get into coolers.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST If every student on the Columbus campus participates, they came in 1955. www.thelantern.com/email In 1955, references to will need to average 10.9 gallons of water per person. The dunking popped back lake is already still a little filled, however, and it certainly does not have to reach capacity. So let’s say 350,000 gallons of water is the magic number. That brings it down to 5.27 gallons per person.

To advertise go to thelantern.com Of course, not everyone would participate. There are some people out there who might view this idea as “crazy” or “nonsense.” But there are dreamers on this Ohio State campus.

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Males between the ages of 18-40 are eligible to And then in 1922, The Lantern reported members of Bucket and Dipper would even defend freshmen from being dunked in the lake by those who were not permitted to do so, i.e. non-Bucket and Dipper members.

“Bucket and Dipper announces that no promiscuous ‘ducking’ or ‘dipping’ is to take place under the auspices of other organizations,” The Lantern read on April 4, 1922. “Any attempt to haze freshmen in this manner by other organizations will result in Bucket and Dipper’s strong-arm squad defending the freshmen.”

You coming around to these guys being the vigilantes needed on campus yet? It is also worth pointing out that in the same year, the student council rejected alternatives to the dunking in Mirror Lake put forth by faculty members.

Also of note in 1922 is that the last tugof-war across Mirror Lake took place with the university president saying, “The University is trying to make the lake a place of as much beauty as possible.”

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Five winners announced after Tech Hub Student Grant Pitch Night ANNA RIPKEN Lantern reporter ripken.2@osu.edu Mapping mountains in 3D, stimulating the brain and expressing human emotion through glass art were just a few of the ideas presented at Tech Hub’s annual Student Grant Pitch Night.

Five winners were announced for funding after a night of presentations that included 3D mountain mapping, “Handikapp,” “Unite the World,” Activated Art, and non-invasive deep brain stimulation.

Forrest Schoessow, geography Ph.D. student at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, led the presentation for his team’s 3D mountain-mapping project, which is aimed at using a drone to observe glacial retreat in Peru.

The autonomous drone 3D maps the glaciers and how they’re changing.

“It’s a high-altitude, weather-proof platform, and it’s also zero emission, meaning we can charge everything using solar panels in the field,” Schoessow said about the drone. “And this is really making it a lot safer for us and really increasing our ability to see what’s going on up there.”

Jen Schlegel, a fourth-year in biomedical engineering, pitched

her project idea “HandiKapp,” a visual coding language app that would allow those with physical disabilities, such as Schlegel who only has good use of four fingers, to use a point-and-tap interface for common coding.

“Accessibility has been left out of the conversation or added in as an afterthought,” Schlegel said.

“There’s no current way for someone like me to code, to contribute to the software conversation.”

Another app presented was “Unite the World,” which would connect people to create more empathetic and diverse communities. The app would use technology to bring people together through randomized matching based on similar interests.

“That feeling that you get of having a meaningful conversation, learning from a new perspective and then connecting on a deeper level, that’s what we’re trying to build out,” team member and third-year in finance Brad Herndon said. “We recognize that the issue is lack of connectivity and social segregation.”

“Activated Art,” a project by Rebecca Arday, a first-year Ph.D. student in art, tests the properties of glass strands to ultimately observe human interaction in a different way.

“I’ve always been really fasci-

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Team member Mohammed Aboulesoud addresses the audience during his pitch for “Tas,” a bandana with electrical circuiting that could non-invasively alleviate depressive symptoms in the brain.

nated by the idea that objects can communicate human emotion of empathy, apathy, longing, loss, and how objects and artworks can [offer] insight [into] surreal and emotional experiences,” Arday said. “The work that I’m doing now is an exploration of how objects can engage an audience through interaction. And it’s all made possible through electronics.”

The final winner was a project involving non-invasive deep brain stimulation and the treatment of

depression via a bandana containing electrodes.

“What we want to do is use the bandana to create these emblems on these certain circuits of the brain to help alleviate depressive symptoms,” Mohammed Aboulesoud, a second-year in neuroscience and mathematics, said.

Finalists presented their projects to an audience who voted through Qualtrics, a survey software, on its favorite presentations, which helped contribute to the judge deliberation following

the event.

“Really the only criteria for this is a technology-related idea,” Sydney Kuehn, marketing and communications coordinator for Tech Hub, said. “So, there aren’t too many constraints on it. We want you to be innovative, creative, use whatever background you have, but we really value originality.”

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The art of self-massage: Relieving body pain on your own XIAOHAN WU Lantern reporter wu.3313@osu.edu A group of people who dealt with muscle stiffness placed their lower backs on foam rollers and adjusted body positions to meet their tender points, accompanied by movements back and forth with their feet in an effort to relieve physical pain.

These people weren’t in a classroom for conventional exercise.

Starting this semester, people with muscle stiffness gather at Ohio State Integrative Medicine Clinic on the second Thursday of every month, to learn self-massage skills from Cheryl Boschert, a licensed massage therapist at the clinic.

Boschert said the modern sedentary lifestyle links to people’s muscle strain in the neck and back. The self-massage class teaches ways to relax the body with easy-to-grab and affordable devices, as substitute for a professional massages, which typically costs $72 per hour, according to the American Massage Therapy Association.

“In America specifically, we are not kind to the body and this is a way of just being very kind to your body and healing the body from all stresses and things that we have,” Boschert said.

To avoid injury during a self-therapy session, Boschert placed three layers of padding on the floor for each student: a yoga

he learned in the class to ease body stiffness, no matter if he is at home or by a desk.

For Stokes, finding tender spots even without a therapist’s instruction is not difficult.

“I can feel it. I just get used to doing that and plus I work out a lot,” Stokes said.

Boschert said once students find tenderness in spots of pain, what she calls “sweet discomfort,” they focus on those spots and add pressure and movement into the massage.

“After your [conventional] exercise, if you get sore and tight, a massage is like a healing exercise and going to relieve those sore and tight muscles afterward. So you need both of them — a healing exercise and [conventional] exercise to strengthen and lengthen the muscle,” Boschert said.

The self-massage class welcomes anyone regardless of experience.

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People with muscle tension took the self-massage class at OSU Integrative Medicine Clinic.

mat and two blankets. Next to the mats were chairs, massage balls and foam rollers of different densities.

Class started with preliminary stretching, followed by foam rolling designed to target pain in muscle groups such as the upper back and glute. It ended with a hand or foot self-massage using a massage ball.

Ray Stokes, who has attended this self-therapy session for five

years, said his favorite exercise he learned in the class is one using the foam roller.

“The little things they teach are you can do massage by yourself.

I think more openly about my body now. I think about my body and am more aware of things that may be tight,” Stokes said. “And I learned more than [to] relax; it helped me relax my own life.”

Boschert handed out a paper with instructions elaborating on

how to alleviate points of pain, which helps students review and practice after class.

“You can massage yourself without having to make an appointment,” Boschert said. “You can do it in your living room and in front of your TV while you are watching TV. You can also do it in a hotel room when you’re traveling.”

Stokes said when he feels muscle tension, he applies techniques

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LEGO exhibition features model of downtown Columbus and Buckeye memorabilia TRISTAN RELET-WERKMEISTER Lantern reporter relet-werkmeister.1@osu.edu The room seems almost too small for the thousands of bricks assembled together. The guests who enter the gallery are immediately dazzled — eyes wide with astonishment and mouths open in awe.

Visitors usually pause for a moment at the threshold of the exhibition when they come face to face with the giant LEGO model of downtown Columbus built by the Columbus LEGO club, OhioLUG. This model and Buckeye football fan LEGO artwork, such as a model of the entrance to The Shoe, are currently featured in “Think Outside the Brick” at the Columbus Museum of Art. “I always loved LEGO as a child,” Molly Selan, president of OhioLUG, said. “Typically people get away from it, and then you kind of come back into it.”

The exhibition is organized every year for the holiday season and while some pieces have been in the exhibition since its conception, most are rotated out. Selan reached out to the 24 members of her club in September to prepare for the exhibition and coordinate the different pieces to include. “[The exhibition] sparks an interest in different things that can be done with LEGO rather than just building what’s already put together into sets,” Selan said.

For this edition, exclusive new models have been added in a room dedicated to Buckeye football: The Ohio State Block “O” and a mosaic of a football player. The Brutus mosaic unveiled last year remains part of the exhibition.

“You can’t have anything better than Buckeye,” Selan

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Easton to get $500 million expansion in 2019 CHASE RAY Arts & Life Editor ray.461@osu.edu Easton Town Center announced Monday that a 16-acre, $500 million expansion is currently underway over the next four years to set the stage for residential expansion in 2019.

The expansion will feature popular local and national retailers, breweries, restaurants, entertainment venues, hotels, public event spaces and social gathering areas in the northeast quadrant between the Town Center and Easton Gateway.

This expansion is the largest Easton has had since the 2001 debut of its Fashion District, and the most recent since the 2014 expansion that added popular chains such as Costco, Whole Foods and Dick’s Sporting Goods.

The expansion, which will exceed $500 million in development costs over the next four years, reflects the continuing demand from local and national companies that want to be part of the environment already created at Easton, according to a press release.

The new expansion’s centerpiece will be RH Gallery, a relocation and high-end renovation of its current Restoration Hardware Easton location — the first RH Gallery in the state of Ohio and one of only 17 in the country.

The new store will be a freestanding, 40,000-square-foot three-story building that will offer a large collection of home furnishings in a gallery setting, an interactive RH design atelier, a private workshop or studio, with professional design services and rooftop terraces with a cafe.

“RH Gallery is an extraordinary concept and we’re so pleased it will anchor this important nextstep in the evolution of Easton Town Center,” said Jennifer Peterson, chief executive of Easton Town Center. “With the next-closest RH Galleries located in Chicago and Nashville, we are confident this will be a strong draw for customers from throughout the region.”

The new expansion also coincides with Easton’s 20th anniversary in June 2019.

“Twenty years is certainly worth celebrating,” Peterson said. “Easton Town Center is a place that is now embedded in the personal history of many people. It may be a memory of a tree-lighting with family, attending a summer con-

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Easton announced a 16-acre, $500 million expansion for its 20th anniversary in June 2019.

cert, finding the perfect engagement ring, visiting the Easton train with grandchildren, enjoying a great movie with a spouse or having dinner with a prom date.”

Construction is already underway on expansion components such as roadway and infrastructure work, a new six-level parking garage, a public green space known as The Yard, which is intended to be a leisure destination for live music and entertainment, and Merchants Row, an extension of Worth Avenue that will have streetscapes with new shopping and dining areas.

With the expansion, Easton aims to establish a new COURTESY OF EASTON TOWN CENTER residential community, while also increasing office This expansion is the next stage of evolution of the employment in in Columbus and Central Ohio. shopping, dining and entertainment destination.

Partying for a cause: Martinis and Magic raises more than $100,000 MICHAEL LEE Engagement Editor lee.7240@osu.edu It was a night for adults to feel like kids again, and for a good cause.

More than 400 people were packed inside the Huntington Club Friday at Ohio Stadium for Martinis and Magic — a fundraising event hosted by the Central Ohio chapter of A Kid Again — raising about $140,000 throughout the night.

A Kid Again is an organization that hosts monthly events called “adventures” for families that are raising children with life-threatening illnesses, said Chris Elliott, executive director of the Central Ohio chapter of A Kid Again. “Adventures” could include bringing families to Columbus Crew games, King’s Island and the Columbus Zoo. “Martinis and Magic is one of our larger fundraisers, and obviously the goal is to raise awareness and funds to put on all of these adventures,” Mary Derr, engagement and communications coordinator at A Kid Again, said.

“It’s a fun night to raise both awareness for our organization and funds.”

As guests walked the halls and main dining areas of Huntington Club, they were approached by magicians, and had the opportunity to watch sit-down magic shows.

Yaz Ashrawi of Upper Arlington came to the event because he had a co-worker on the board of the organization who introduced him to A Kid Again, and wanted to show his support.

“This is a great event, great food, great people, great cause, so I’m really enjoying it,” Ashrawi said. “I got exposed to one of the magic tricks and one of the magic shows. It totally blew my mind, so it’s been really cool.”

There were also performances by a flair bartender who auctioned off the drinks he made to guests, as well as Los Angeles-based group The Killer Dueling Pianos, who took

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Guests were approached by close-up magicians throughout the night at Martinis and Magic on Nov. 16.

song requests from guests and auctioned off song-change requests.

While some people donated money through drinks and songs, others did so through a silent auction. Items up for auction included signed Ohio State memorabilia, gaming consoles, paintings by A Kid Again children and more.

“This event is critical to what we do as an organization,” said Brent Thomas, board member of A Kid Again. “We totally rely on the individuals that come to the fundraiser, spend money, have fun ... so we can carry out [the ‘adventures’] throughout the year.”

Elliott said Martinis and Magic ties into the organiza-

tion’s mission, with it being loosely based on another “adventure” the organization hosts called Miracles and Magic.

“It’s just that chance for even adults to kind of be a little like kids for the evening in terms of a fundraising event because they’re enjoying the amazements of what magicians can do as they stroll around,” Elliott said.

At one point during the night, Elliott got on stage to greet the guests, thank them for coming and encourage them to keep making donations.

“Get your phones out, get your wallets out and make donations for the kids. Get them out of the hospital and let them enjoy being a kid again,” Elliott said.

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said. “I always loved [them].”

The Buckeye Football Big Ten mosaic is composed of 22,000 pieces for a total cost of $2,000.

“Some colors are more rare than others and so they cost more,” Selan said. “LEGO is not cheap.”

For this expensive mosaic, the self-proclaimed “builders” took a photo, put it into a software to pixelate the picture and separated the piece into different plates to be assembled later on. “[This exhibition] is a great example of … fostering creativity within our visitors, who create their own LEGO designs and sculptures when they are here,” Nannette Maciejunes, executive director of Columbus Museum of Art,

said in an email.

The public can also build LEGO sculptures in the Chase Center for Creativity at the museum. A scavenger hunt with LEGO cookies and a LEGO design challenge day are also planned.

Selan said the exhibition required a lot of organization and communication, notably for the Block “O” featured in the Buckeye-themed room, which took her a couple of years to build. In fact, because building a plain block would have been too heavy, Selan said she had to create an internal structure to support the angles, allowing the piece to be transported.

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Selan said the focus was put on the city of Columbus and not fantasy, partially so people can realize that LEGO is not just for kids.

In total, 16 builders participated in this exhibition. The infrastructures, decoration, trailer and tables are owned by the club, but the main pieces such as buildings and skyscrapers are owned by the members.

“Think Outside the Brick” is on display at the Columbus Museum of Art until Feb. 22. Student entry to the museum is $8 and public entry is $14. Admission is free on Sundays.

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Unfamiliar territory: Ohio State enters Michigan matchup as underdog COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu Ohio State had an idea of where it wanted to be by the time the Michigan game arrived.

With redshirt sophomore Dwayne Haskins at the helm, a quarterback who has beaten Michigan before, and two former 1,000-yard running backs at his disposal, with an All-American at defensive end and a defense that seemed to have depth up front and high expectations everywhere else, the Buckeyes expected to use the Michigan game as a launching point.

It would lead to a conference championship, a College Football Playoff bid and, if lucky, a national championship.

But instead, Michigan, with a former top-rated pro-style quarterback recruit leading the offense, a 1,000-yard rusher and the best defense in college football, is in the spot Ohio State thought it would be in at this point.

The Wolverines lead the Big Ten East and are the No. 4 team in the country with an ability to control its own destiny heading into the playoff.

But this is not what Meyer is focused on. He said all he is focused on is getting players healthy and confident enough to play their best in one of the most important games of the year.

Meyer has been here before. And he knows what it takes to succeed against the Wolverines.

“It’s our seventh one. And like you said, it’s never been, in my opinion, the talent differential,” Meyer said. “It’s always been extremely close. And also when you play Penn State, I think Michigan State’s very close. And you’ve seen it, for me to say how we play, you’ve seen it over the years.

We have to do what we need to do at the time to win the game.”

That might be different than anything Meyer and the rest of the Ohio State coaching staff has done this season. He said play-calling has been “a little more conservative when it is a team you’re better than.”

For the first time in 51 games, Ohio State will not be viewed as the better team when it takes the field on Saturday. Michigan is favored by four points, the first time the Wolverines were favored to win this game since 2011.

Heading into what many consider the best rivalry in all of college sports, Meyer is saying the same things he says about every opponent Ohio State faces: He has “absolutely incredible respect” for the Michigan football program.

The way Ohio State shows that respect to the Wolverines does not change either.

“How do you respect — you work so freakin’ hard at it to do your very best,” Meyer said. “How do you show respect for them and the game? You work, which we are.

We’re working so damn hard for this.”

And Ohio State will have to work hard against Michigan,

Urban Meyer leads the Buckeyes onto the field prior to the start of the game against Indiana on Oct. 6. Ohio State won 49-26. especially after its 52-51 overtime win against Maryland, Michigan State this season, Ohio State’s toughest test this a game in which the Buckeyes defense allowed 535 yards season will be Michigan. And with the added pressure of it of offense to the Terrapins, the most yards it has allowed being “The Game,” which every player and coach in each this season. locker room waits for each season, this one carries more After the game, defensive coordinator Greg Schiano weight. said the Buckeyes view the Maryland win as its own “entiOhio State did not think it would be in this position headty,” that it does not define the defensive performance Ohio ing into the Michigan game. However, even without being State will have against Michigan. favored to win, without being in the position to control its Schiano said there has been some consistency defensive- own destiny in terms of the College Football Playoff, this ly throughout the season and that his unit will be ready for game defines its season. junior quarterback Shea Patterson and senior running back This game is what brought players in from all over Karan Higdon on Saturday. the country to join Ohio State and Michigan. This game “Look, we’re as ready as we’re gonna be,” Schiano said. is what convinced coaches to join the Buckeyes and the “We’re gonna put together a good plan, we’re gonna have Wolverines. This game is everything for both programs, a good week of practice, and there’ll be two very focused no matter the context. teams show up on Saturday.”

“It’s cold up here, you know,” sophomore running back Even with ranked wins against Penn State, TCU and J.K. Dobbins said. “That’s what I left Texas for.”

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-other season during which Harbaugh pushed the boulder up the hill, but couldn’t get it over. To Wolverine fans, it is another lost season.

“I certainly think you can’t call this a successful season at this point unless Michigan beats Ohio State and wins the Big Ten,” Marcovitch said.

A win, and Harbaugh has just one hurdle to push his boulder over, at least for 2018. The winner of Ohio State and Michigan will go on to face Northwestern in the Big Ten championship game. Harbaugh has never made it to that game, having watched Michigan State’s Mark Dantonio, Penn State’s James Franklin and Ohio State’s Urban Meyer all hoist that trophy during his tenure.

Michigan would be heavily favored to beat Northwestern, a 7-4 Big Ten West champion of the considerably weaker half of the conference.

Beat Ohio State. Win the Big Ten. Reach the College Football Playoff. All would be firsts in the Harbaugh era.

Everything else after that in 2018 would just be gravy.

“A Big Ten championship and a College Football Playoff appearance would be a huge success, especially after the way this season started,” Marcovitch said. “And anything beyond that I think is extra. Now if you ask fans that two weeks from now and Michigan’s playing Alabama, a lot of them will have talked themselves into it.”

The boulder is back up the hill. The question remains: Will Harbaugh be able to get it that one step further, or will he watch in dismay as it rolls back down, waiting to be moved again in August 2019?

expectation of not only leading an offense to a second-half, comeback win, but to a four-quarter victory, a victory that places Ohio State back to where it expected to be at the beginning of the season.

Haskins knows the stakes. He has known the stakes for the entire season. He said he has watched Michigan every week waiting for this game.

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unique opportunity to know what a Michigan game is like before he starts one himself. He knows what it takes.

“Getting some experience first from last year helped out tremendously going into this week and everything goes into full throttle going into — it actually starts today,” Haskins said. “It starts today, so we are going to get ready for them right now.”

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Ohio State redshirt sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins (7) dives into the end zone for a touchdown in the third quarter of the game against Maryland on Nov. 17.

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Ohio State redshirt sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins (7) runs the ball in the first quarter of the game against Maryland on Nov. 17. Ohio State won 52-51.

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verines faced Notre Dame, who now has the No. 39 pass offense in the nation, and allowed 170 yards passing to senior quarterback Brandon Wimbush, giving up one touchdown and getting one interception.

Ohio State has the No. 4 pass offense in the country. With redshirt sophomore quarterback Dwayne Haskins leading the way, the Buckeyes average 359.5 passing yards per game, throwing 37 touchdowns compared to seven interceptions.

This is the matchup that will allow Ohio State to win this game: Haskins taking advantage of a top-ranked pass defense that really has not seen much trouble this season from a quarterback of his caliber.

But this is only one matchup. The rest is what needs to have the Buckeyes worried.

The Ohio State defense, which has allowed a combined 100 points and more than 1,000 yards to Maryland and Purdue combined, is facing a Michigan offense in which Harbaugh, after three seasons, found his quarterback. Harbaugh found the player he wants to lead Michigan to its first win against Ohio State since 2011: junior quarterback Shea Patterson.

Patterson leads a Michigan offense that is the most efficient passing game Ohio State will face this season, No. 14 in the country. The former Ole Miss quarterback is completing a career-high 65.9 percent of pass attempts, throwing 18 touchdowns compared to four interceptions.

If Ohio State wants to stop Patterson and the Michigan offense, including senior running back Karan Higdon, who is recording his first 1,000-yard campaign, the Buckeyes will have to rely on the only consistent aspect of the defense: the defen-

sive line.

Despite allowing 237.4 passing yards per game, the No. 77 Ohio State pass defense is holding opposing quarterbacks to a 52.8 percent completion rate against the unit, No. 2 in the Big Ten behind the Wolverines.

Redshirt junior defensive tackle Dre’Mont Jones and sophomore defensive end Chase Young will have to consistently be in the Michigan backfield, disrupting both Higdon and Patterson to find any success on Saturday.

But the reality is, Patterson will get some passes off and test the Ohio State corners and safeties just like the teams before them, lobbing deep throws to sophomore wide receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones.

The big test for Ohio State will be whether Haskins, sophomore running back J.K. Dobbins and a room full of veteran receivers, including redshirt seniors Parris Campbell, Terry McLaurin and Johnnie Dixon, can keep up with the Michigan offense even against the best defense in the country statistically.

Meyer said Monday that talent differential has never been an aspect of this game in particular and that it’s always been close.

This is the game Ohio State has prepared for all season. No matter where the Buckeyes are at, Meyer and company have found a way to win.

Will it happen for the Buckeyes on Saturday? Yes, and there is a blueprint to do it.

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Michigan junior quarterback Shea Patterson (2) calls out a play during the Michigan-Nebraska game on Sept. 22. Michigan won 56-10.

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in College Park, Maryland.

Ohio State will play up to Michigan, there is no doubt about that. But Michigan has been looking forward to this game for just as long as the Buckeyes have.

With the “Revenge Tour” that redshirt senior defensive lineman Chase Winovich started against Wisconsin, Michigan has dominated the Badgers, Spartans and Nittany Lions.

Ohio State is the last, and most important, team on the list for the Wolverines, and they come in as the favorite to take the Buckeyes down on the road.

As much as the Buckeyes look forward to Michigan week, the Wolverines appear more motivated than ever to make a statement on Saturday.

There is no stat that truly favors the Buckeyes in this matchup.

Any number of offense that Ohio State holds over the Wolverines, Michigan counters it with a top-tier defense the Buckeyes simply do not have.

Michigan didn’t give up 51 to Maryland. Michigan

didn’t have a lapse in its season like Ohio State had at Purdue. Michigan isn’t far outside the College Football Playoff looking in.

Simply put, the Wolverines have been every bit as consistent as the Buckeyes haven’t been, and that consistency will help them stay composed in college football’s biggest rivalry.

Ohio State’s best chance is to make this game a shootout.

For how much Patterson has impressed, he is no Dwayne Haskins, and the Ohio State redshirt sophomore quarterback already showed a little bit of what he could do against the Wolverines last season.

But again, the chances of the Buckeyes making this game a shootout are slim to none.

Michigan’s pass defense is the best in the country, and has given up more than 200 passing yards only once — 209 yards to SMU in Week 3.

Sophomore running back J.K. Dobbins had a career day against the Terrapins, but with redshirt junior running back Mike Weber coming back, the momentum in the run

game will be stalled, especially playing against the No. 14 rush defense in the NCAA. Winovich’s injury status will be a big storyline coming into the game, but Michigan’s defense goes past one man, and it might just come out that much more motivated if it has to play without its most vocal leader.

Anything can happen when it comes to an Ohio State-Michigan game.

For the Buckeyes to pull the upset, they need to be a team that they have not been all season. For Michigan to win, it simply needs to do what it has done in its previous stops on the tour.

I’d put my money on the Wolverines coming out, playing as the better team that they are and finishing their tour that they are so clearly motivated to finish.

Ohio State has the recent history, but this is Michigan’s best year to end the losing streak.

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EDWARD SUTELAN Editor-in-Chief sutelan.1@osu.edu Jim Harbaugh has coached Michigan to this point before.

In 2016, Michigan’s head coach guided his Wolverines to Columbus with only one loss and a No. 3 ranking in the College Football Playoff rankings. In his second season at the helm, he exceeded expectations, and Michigan finally looked better than Ohio State.

Yet, the Wolverines lost.

In 2017, Michigan hosted an Ohio State team that had two losses and again, looked like a vulnerable titan.

Still, the Wolverines lost.

Now, Harbaugh has guided the team to the brink again. His Wolverines are No. 4 in the nation. They are in a position to win the Big Ten East with a victory Saturday.

They are favored against the Buckeyes.

“I think this season ends up, kind of, all for not if you don’t win the Big Ten. If you don’t beat Ohio State. If you don’t go to the playoff,” Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic’s Michigan beat writer, said. “One guy had told me that the trajectory of Michigan football has almost been sisyphean, so to the point where every time you think it’s getting better, you think Michigan is making progress, something happens. It doesn’t quite get there.”

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was pun-

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Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh appeals to an official during the third quarter against Ohio State at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Nov. 25, 2017. Ohio State won 31-20.

ished by being forced to roll a boulder up a hill just for it to roll down at the end of the day, leaving him to repeat the act for the rest of time.

Harbaugh has always been able to push that boulder up the hill. He’s led the Wolverines to more success now than they ever found under former head coach Brady Hoke. But every year, that last week of the season, the Buckeyes push that boulder back down the hill, leaving him to start

again the next campaign.

This Michigan team found the missing piece it has lacked in the past years of the Harbaugh era: a quarterback.

Shea Patterson, a former top-rated quarterback recruit, has completed 65.9 percent of his passes for 2,177 yards and 18 touchdown passes. He has only thrown four interceptions. Patterson has also rushed for 255 yards on 60 carries, punching in two touchdowns on the ground.

In the past, Michigan has had the defense, the receivers and the running backs.

It just didn’t have the signal-caller. Now, it has Patterson.

“The defense is still the backbone of this Michigan and Karan Higdon in the running game is really what the offense is centered around,” Stavenhagen said. “But just the knowledge that Michigan has a quarterback with some unique abilities, capable of making plays, capable of making big throws on third down or in the fourth quarter… I think that really changes kind of the whole vibe of this team.”

With a defense that ranks among the top in the nation statistically, Michigan has all the pieces needed to come into Columbus and beat a struggling Ohio State team that was humiliated by Purdue and surrendered 51 points to Maryland, a team that scored three against Michigan State.

It has been a long time since Michigan entered the matchup truly optimistic to win against Ohio State.

Michigan Daily sports editor Max Marcovitch said it’s been rare in the past 15 years that Michigan has been regarded as a better team, and fans know this is the case.

“I think Michigan fans are recognizing that if it’s ever going to happen, if the program is ever going to turn the corner and sort of get to that level at the top of the Big Ten, that this kind of has to be the year,” Marcovitch said.

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DECIDING THE EAST

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Urban Meyer prepares to lead the Buckeyes onto the field prior to the start of the game against Maryland on Nov 17. Ohio State won 52-51.

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Staff Predictions

Every year, both Ohio State and Michigan have this game marked on their calendars.

Every year, the Ohio State-Michigan matchup brings together one of the all-time biggest rivalries in college football.

Michigan leads the series overall with a record of 58-49-6, but in recent years, Ohio State has taken control, winning the past six installments since Urban Meyer took over as head coach.

But this year, for the first time in the Meyer era, No. 4 Michigan (10-1, 8-0 Big Ten) comes into “The Game” as the favorite against No. 10 Ohio State (10-1, 7-1 Big Ten), and it’s the first time since 2004 that the Wolverines are favorites in Ohio Stadium.

“We don’t talk about those things,” Meyer said. “The most prepared team will win the game.

It’s not who’s favored and who is not. I didn’t know that. And I don’t imagine our team really does.”

Michigan enters as the favorite thanks to a 10-game winning streak after losing its opener on the road to now-No. 3 Notre Dame 24-17. Included in the streak are wins against then-No. 15 Wisconsin, then-No. 24 Michigan State and then-No. 14 Penn State.

The victories against the Badgers and the Nittany Lions were by 25 points or more.

“Whenever you face an elite team, elite defense, which they are, personnel stands out, front seven stands out,” Meyer said. “I think they’re No. 1 in the nation in pass defense. And just very good personnel, very well thought-out scheme and very good defense.”

The Wolverines hold the No. 1 pass defense, as well as the No. 1 defense overall, allowing 234.8 yards per game, more than 15 yards fewer than any other team in the country.

Michigan allows 13.5 points per game, tied for the fourth fewest in the NCAA. The country’s strongest defense is led by stars in the front seven.

Junior linebackers Devin Bush and Josh Uche combine for 85

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tackles, 17.5 of which are for a loss, including 12 sacks.

Junior Rashan Gary and redshirt senior Chase Winovich have 7.5 sacks of their own on the defensive line on 94 combined tackles. But Winovich went down with an upper-body injury against Indiana on Saturday, and his status remains uncertain for the game, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh said.

But Michigan had one of the strongest defenses in the country in 2017 — ending the season with the third-fewest yards allowed per game — when it lost to Ohio State at home.

The difference comes on the other side of the ball.

After ending this past season with the 25th worst total offense in the NCAA, the Wolverines come into Ohio Stadium averaging 36.6 points per game, No. 24 in the country, scoring 40 or more points in six of their 11 games.

Junior quarterback Shea Patterson is the difference maker, throwing for 2,177 yards, 18 touchdowns and four interceptions while completing 65.9 per-

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cent of his passes. He also averages 4.2 yards per rush for 252 yards and two scores on the ground.

Patterson has a trio of players who receive the majority of the targets: sophomore wide receivers Donovan Peoples-Jones and Nico Collins, and senior tight end Zach Gentry.

Peoples-Jones leads the team with 32 catches for 477 yards and seven touchdowns. Gentry, the 6-foot-8 tight end, is closely behind with 475 yards and a pair of scores. Collins has 29 catches for 461 yards and four touchdowns this season.

Senior running back Karan Higdon leads the No. 14 rushing offense in the nation with 1,106 yards and 10 rushing touchdowns on 5.3 yards per carry.

Higdon said Monday in a Michigan press conference he guarantees a Michigan victory against the Buckeyes.

Instead of making promises, Meyer is going to let the Buckeyes’ play on Saturday do all the talking.

“How do you show respect for them and the game? You work,

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which we are. We’re working so damn hard for this,” Meyer said.

Michigan comes in with the momentum, and hopes of ending its losing streak and finishing off the team’s “Revenge Tour” that has motivated the Wolverines all season.

They have gone through three key stops on their tour: Wisconsin, Michigan State and Penn State.

Now, No. 4 Michigan remains one win away from finishing it, facing off against No. 10 Ohio State in Ohio Stadium at noon on Saturday. It enters with the strongest team of the Harbaugh era, and one of the most vulnerable Ohio State teams since Meyer took over.

Now, it comes down to one game to see if the Wolverines can finish what they started, or if the Buckeyes can go to the Big Ten Championship once more. Only this time, they will have to do it as the underdog.

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Why Ohio State will win Why Michigan will win COLIN GAY Sports Editor gay.125@osu.edu In the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, the home of the Ohio State football team, there is always a timer ticking down.

Through the Buckeyes’ 27-26 road win against Penn State and the 49-20 road loss to Purdue, the timer continued to tick down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until what they consider the biggest game of the year.

The Ohio State players and coaches did not come to Ohio State to play Penn State.

They did not come to Ohio State to play Michigan State or Purdue. They came for one game.

“The Game,” which many consider the greatest rivalry in all of sports, has arrived: Ohio State vs. Michigan.

But Ohio State is in a different spot than it usually is heading into the Saturday after Thanksgiving. After the Buckeyes’ 52-51 overtime win on the road against Maryland, Ohio State opened as 4-point underdogs to Michigan, the No. 4 team in the country and the Big Ten team in the driver’s seat for the College Football Playoff.

This will be the first time the Buckeyes,

under head coach Urban Meyer, will come into a game as an underdog since the 2014 National Championship against Oregon — a game Ohio State won handily 42-20.

That’s a 51-game streak of being favored snapped. But, based on the history of the rivalry, especially during Meyer’s tenure, it’s been one-sided. Ohio State has not lost to Michigan since Meyer took over as head coach, winning by an average of 10.5 points.

Since Jim Harbaugh took the Michigan head coaching job in 2015, the deficit in losses for the Wolverines has not been close other than a 3-point, double-overtime loss in 2016.

But this game is different.

Harbaugh leads a Michigan team with the No. 1 total defense in college football, with opponents averaging 234.8 yards per game and allowing 3.97 yards per play. In the passing game, the Wolverines have allowed the least amount of yards through the air, giving up 123.2 yards per game, 18.5 yards more than any other team in the country.

However, Michigan has not faced a passing offense ranked nationally in the top 30.

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WYATT CROSHER Assistant Sports Editor crosher.1@osu.edu It has been seven years — 2,551 days, to be exact — since Michigan has won against Ohio State. It hasn’t been since the year 2000, 6,576 days ago, that the Wolverines found a victory in Ohio Stadium.

Both of these runs will come to an end Saturday.

Ohio State and Michigan come into “The Game” with equal 10-1 records, but they couldn’t be more different in terms of momentum.

Sure, the Wolverines stumbled slightly in a 31-20 win against Indiana, but came in previously with back-to-back 42-7 wins, and three of their past four victories coming against then-ranked opponents.

Michigan has a well-functioning offense for the first time in the Harbaugh era. It comes in No. 24 in points per game, and in the top 50 in yards per game. Both junior quarterback Shea Patterson and senior running back Karan Higdon have been impressive for a large part of the season, and that is enough for the Wolverines to hold a huge advantage this time around.

If a team led by John O’Korn can lose

to Ohio State by only 11, a legitimately strong offense will find ways to score.

This is especially true with the Buckeyes being ranked in the bottom half in yards allowed, most recently giving up 535 total yards and 51 points to Maryland.

Looking strictly at numbers, Ohio State has an opportunity to exploit Michigan’s putrid red zone defense, which is the thirdworst in the nation, allowing points on 94.7 of trips.

But the Wolverines allow the fewest trips (19) to the red zone of any team in college football. And, even if they did allow more, Ohio State has the 11th-worst red zone efficiency anyway, lacking the capability to exploit one of Michigan’s only flaws.

I can throw all the raw numbers that show Michigan as the better team coming into the game, because on paper, they are.

The counter to Ohio State’s lackluster play against the Terrapins is that the Buckeyes were overlooking Maryland with Michigan lurking around the corner.

Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano even said the Buckeyes are “as ready” for Michigan as the team will ever be less than an hour after getting torched

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