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Whoever wins “The Game” — the Wolverines or the Buckeyes — should be locked into college football’s top four no matter what happens a week later in the Big Ten title tilt.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Pushed to the side in all the, will-Michigan-running-back-Blake-Corum-be-able-to-play handwringing this week is the fact first-year starting quarterback J.J. McCarthy will be making his first start in the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry in hostile, raucous Ohio Stadium.

The countdown to this Saturday’s clash began as soon as Michigan broke its drought against Ohio State last season—and reached the Playoff because of it.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It didn’t take long for Olu Oluwatimi, Michigan’s starting center who transferred from Virginia in the offseason as a graduate student, to understand the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry.

At 3-8 with Justin Fields establishing himself as a quarterback to build around, the Bears will have options to provide Fields some needed help — a receiver or lineman in particular. If they stay at their current No. 3 spot, “trading down might be their best option.”

The Michigan coach finally opened up about the jab ahead of Saturday’s massive edition of “The Game.”

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan players have been thinking about Ohio State and working to prepare for this game since the start of the year.

Get a look at everything Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh said about Ohio State leading into the game. #GoBucks

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It was too easy for too long. Michigan was due for difficult, and difficult has arrived, right on schedule.