Ohio State faces Michigan this weekend, and you know what that means. It’s time for everybody to argue about The Spot again. I mean, this makes sense. The Spot — J.T. Barrett’s critical fourth down conversion in overtime of last year’s game that set up Ohio State’s winning touchdown — is the most controversial recent moment in one of the biggest rivalries in all of football. It spawned a million frantic MS Paint breakdowns from Michigan fans, launched a referee conspiracy, and even today, some Michigan players aren’t backing down. They think The Spot was bad. It’s fun to keep going on about this, (especially since Actually, The Spot was good). But the 2016 edition of The Game was a classic for a bunch of other reasons besides the contentious ending. By constantly harping on this final moment, I think we forget some important things that might cloud popular perception…
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