For the fourth time in five years, the Michigan Wolverines head into the final week of the season with everything to play for. The past four seasons saw the Ohio State Buckeyes come into this showdown ranked No. 2 nationally, yet each of those four contests resulted in a Michigan win. Two of those losses still sent Ohio State to the College Football Playoff, and that would be the case again for the Buckeyes, who are ranked No. 1 this time around like they were over 2,000 days ago — the last time they won in this rivalry.

We like patterns, we like symmetry, but it is so difficult to know if any of that even matters in games like this. Vegas favors the visitors by about 10 points, which feels fair given how both teams have played up to this point, but in this decade, that has mattered very

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