How important is Michigan's misery to Buckeye fans, and could the Wolverines be good this year?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 128 minutes

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On this Thursday Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means look at how Ohio State fans view Michigan and the rivalry. Texters check in on whether they want Michigan to be a great team and lose to the Buckeyes, or to lose every single week. There's a discussion about how fans' views on the rivalry have changed, and how the timing of when they became an OSU fan might affect that. Then, national college football writer and podcaster Alex Kirshner stops by to discuss his story for 538.com on why Michigan might be a team worth believing in this season. It's a full pod about the Ohio State fan perspective on Michigan, with some talk about the Michigan run game, on another big Thursday Buckeye Talk. Thanks for listening. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been?
0:17.7	Buck I talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:27.2	Welcome back to the big Thursday, Buck I talk from Cleveland.com, Douglas
0:31.4	Maurice, Nathan Baird, Stephen Means, and we're going to talk Michigan on this
0:37.5	podcast. But not Michigan. We're going to have Alex Kirschner, who's really
0:43.0	good writer, good football analysts. He's part of the split zone duo podcast,
0:48.7	National College Football podcast, but he wrote a piece for five 38 last week
0:54.7	that was headline the case for believing in Michigan football. So we had some
1:01.1	good analytical stuff that he laid out. That was before Michigan's win 2013 win over
1:05.1	records this week. But a lot of it I think still applies. So he's going to help us
1:09.2	talk about later in the podcast, how good this Michigan football team is or
1:13.2	isn't. But I just wanted to sort of talk with the textures about how they
1:19.0	sort of feel about Michigan. And there is a wonderful divide in the fan base,
1:22.8	guys, the main thing to me is do you want Michigan to be good? Do you want
1:26.6	Michigan to be bad? Do you want Michigan 11 and O going into the game? Do you
1:31.0	want Michigan O and 11 going into the game? And I guess maybe it's no surprise,
1:35.3	Nathan, but there are very passionate answers from the textures on both sides of
1:40.5	that. Yeah, I sort of wonder if it's the same. Well, not the same, because I
1:46.5	know that the importance of this game is above all else. But it's sort of an
1:50.9	extension of what we talk about with the East a little bit in general in that I
1:54.6	think they want Michigan. They want the win against Michigan to earn respect.
2:01.0	They want Michigan to be good enough that when Ohio State beats him, it means
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