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And up next, perhaps one of the biggest football rivalies in the United States

is between Ohio State and Michigan.

On Game Day, traditionally, the third weekend of November,

fans of Ohio State cover up every M they can see,

and Michigan fans partake in Buckeye Nutcracking.

What most people don't know, however,

is that this rivalry extends back to the early 1800s

over a land dispute that turned violent.

Here's Monty Montgomery with the story. It's a well-known fact if you live in the Midwest that Michigan and Ohio don't really like each other that much.

Most of that comes down to football today, but that hasn't always been the case. It used to come down to a small

strip of land known as the Toledo strip that resulted because of a mapping error in the

Northwest Territories combined with interesting language in the Northwest Ordinance in the early

1800s, which ultimately led to a war between Michigan and Ohio when Michigan was applying for statehood.

Here's Ted Long, founder of Holy Toledo History, with more on this remarkable story.

The rule was something like that Michigan was to run on a line east and west drawn through the southerly bend of the extreme of Lake Michigan until it reached Lake Erie.

And if you draw that line, it clearly puts Toledo and Mami Bay in Michigan.

And as the story goes in 1803, when the state legislature in Ohio was putting together their application, a trapper comes down

from up north and reminds them, if you follow that, you're going to lose lake access. And so they made

an adjustment. Blyde for statehood. Apparently, there was some people in Washington that raised

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