When “The Game” Becomes “A Game”

Gene Smith

Ohio State plays 12 to 15 football games a year with the potential for even more when the playoff expands next year. But only one of them has earned the distinct label of “The Game.”
There is only one kickoff that’s marked by a year-long countdown clock throughout the football facilities. There is only one opponent you refuse to even mention by name. There’s only one team that instills enough hate throughout the entire state to cause the Governor to ban 1/26th of the alphabet for a week every ye…

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