Heart of the Rivalry is a Blade-produced YouTube series and podcast available on all major platforms that covers the heart of college football through the sport’s own treasured programs of Ohio State, Michigan, Toledo, and Bowling Green.

The weekly show is led by The Blade’s sports columnist, David Briggs, with co-host/producer Phil Kaplan.

Follow the podcast for new episodes every week of the season:

■ Spotify

■ Apple

■ YouTube

In this episode, Dave and Phil give live reports from the weekend’s games, as respectively they each attended UT’s bare-bleacher win and BGSU’s standing room-spectacle loss.

Briggs correctly predicted Ohio State pulling punches, but doesn’t pull any when talking about the Michigan vs. Michigan State rivalry missing its punch this year.

Phil wasn’t punche

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