CLEVELAND, Ohio – Usually, it takes place when the ground grows hard and cold, and the hearts of Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler followed nature’s course. It is when either of Ohio State’s typically grandiose total of two fight songs is playing and when Michigan’s smug tribute to its own superiority comes blaring out of the Big House or Horseshoe. It is when a true fan of Ohio State or Michigan — a.k.a., The Team Up North, abbreviated, TTUN — stands and shouts. That is when you — oh war-painted, buckeye nut necklace-wearing, arm-semaphoring scarlet and gray-clad Ohio State fan, or you, oh, victors hailing, khakis and specs-wearing, Jim Harbaugh-cloned, maize and blue-garbed Michigan fan – have reached the greatest moment of the college football season. It is The Game. The Game is never just a game Cal and Stanford call their rivalry “The Big Game.” It would be redundant…
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