Losing to Oregon 39-7 in Ann Arbor would be bad any year. It’s a million times worse having lose 34-32 to App State the week before. I’ll admit, I was so bandwagon about the whole deal I made a couple of phone calls trying to get my own Mountaineer gear this week. Strangely enough, unless you are a student, parent or alumni…the team shop down there refuses to sell to you. What a terrible business decision. If there is one thing we do in Columbus, its spend way too much time and money hating Michigan. How often does a University have the chance to fund their athletic department for the next decade based on a weeks worth of T Shirt sales? Smart money says…never.

But certainly, the last 8 days are a period I will not soon forget. Even if Michigan runs the table from this point on…they’ll still be the team who lost to a 1-AA joke. That’s something that Buckeye fans can hold on to forever…because no matter how bad Troy Smith looks in a National Championship game, no matter how many times Beanie fumbles…we were never that bad.

I’d like to close by sharing one of the great “Real Men of Genius” commercials I’ve ever come across…

“Bud Light presents Real Men of Genius” (Reaaaaal Men Of Genius) Today we salute you, Mr. Delusional Michigan Fan (Mr. Delusional Michigan Faaaaaan!) Season after season, year after year, you try to justify your absurdly high preseason ranking (clutching at straws!) Season after season, year after year, you scramble to make futile attempts at damage control when the Wolverines lose to a grossly inferior opponent (How’d Northwestern score fifty fouuuuuur?) Inevitably, you’ll bring up the past, and boast of National Championships won 40 years before you were born (those were the daaaaaays!) You will point out that you have more wins than any other program as though that is relevant to the current season (been playing since the 1870s!) Go on, ignore that home loss to your arch rivals in the regular season finale and continue to believe that you’ll defeat your bowl opponent with striking ease (we’ll win by thirteeeeeeey!) So crack open an ice cold Bud Light, oh Emperor of Excuses, and take comfort knowing that when you don’t finish in the top 25, you’ll be back to number three when the preseason polls come out next year (Mr.Delusional Michigan Fan!)”

Fuck a wolverine.