Beating Ohio State Can Grant a Midas Touch, and One of the Lucky Few Returns on Saturday

One of the advantages of being a fan of a really, really, really good football program is that you have the ability to forever turn inward after a loss; if not for mistakes that Ohio State made, if not for missed opportunities by Urban Meyer or J.T. Barrett, if not for bad play on the part of Nick Bosa, then surely the Buckeyes would’ve, could’ve and by all right should have beaten anyone and everyone, up to and including the ’85 Bears. Fans of bad programs can’t do this. When your favorite team sucks, you’re forced to confront the fact that, well… they suck. Losses are almost always the responsibility of the team that beat them, because that team was just better in some (usually really) significant way. That you might actually be bad and that sometimes there are teams that are just better, dammit, is actually a pretty healthy…

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