CLEVELAND, Ohio – Chimdi Chekwa’s first memory of The Game begins with a frothing running back staring down at him. Back in Chekwa’s freshman year in 2007, in a game the Buckeyes won, 14-3, the former Buckeye defensive back thought he had a free shot at Wolverines quarterback Chad Henne. That is, until Mike Hart noticed the blitzing Chekwa and hammered him to the ground. “GET UP!” Hart yelled at Chekwa. “GET UP!” “He stood over me so I couldn’t,” Chekwa recalled this week. “… I had to try to grab his leg and dump him so I could get up.” Hart’s hit-and-holler is just one example of the intense emotion that bleeds onto the field at the Horseshoe or the Big House every year. When Michigan plays Ohio State, blockers hit harder, defensive backs cling tighter to receivers’ jerseys. And “there’s a different level of emotion that comes with…
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