The Game: A Michigan & Ohio State Podcast

Send a text Life and mother nature got in the way of the podcast immediately after The Game, but Andy and Reggie make up for lost time by discussing Michigan's beatdown of Ohio State followed by their back-to-back Big Ten Championships and a preview of the College Football Playoff semifinals. Could the next version of The Game be only a few weeks away, with the stakes even higher?

Send a text Michigan and Ohio State have both successfully navigated their 2022 schedules to arrive at The Game at 11-0 for the first time since 2006. Who wins The Game? Andy and Reggie have no idea, but break down what they hope to see (and not see) on Saturday. Buckeyes and Wolverines wait all year for this magical week. Not much is on the line in this one, other than the Division Championship,...

Send a text 7 games down, 5 to go. This weekend is the second most exciting weekend of the college football season, with Michigan hosting the Spartans in the Big House, and Ohio State traveling to Happy Valley to take on Penn State. With each team facing our second biggest rivals, this Saturday should be a feast for Wolverines, Buckeyes, and anyone who loves the most intense rivalries in college f...

Send a text Michigan and Ohio State both sit at 5-0 as they enter the meat of the schedule. Michigan dispatched Maryland and won at Iowa, a rarity for a top-5 team in recent history. Ohio State dominated Wisconsin and Rutgers. Next up, Michigan plays the Hoosiers on the road followed by a tough test at home against Penn State. Ohio State plays at Sparty this weekend followed by the Hawkeyes at hom...

Send a text The nonconference schedule is over. Michigan and Ohio State embark on the Big Ten slate that will determine how big The Game is this year. Andy and Reggie give their overall assessments after the first quarter of the season and preview Michigan's games against Maryland and Iowa and Ohio State's game against Wisconsin. Oh, and don't forget Rutgers.

Send a text Ohio State won a top-5 matchup to start the 100th anniversary of Ohio Stadium while Michigan dominated Colorado State in encouraging starts to both teams' 2022 seasons. Andy and Reggie talk about what went right in week 1, and their only disappointment is that there are only 11 more regular season games to go.

Send a text Andy and Reggie preview what should be an exciting 2022 season for two highly talented, preseason top ten teams. Both expect the Big Ten East, Big Ten Championship, and a spot in the College Football Playoff to once again come down to The Game. Andy and Reggie start with an honest discussion of the toll the pandemic and their jobs have taken on their mental health, and even their enthu...

Send a text Yes, it's May of 2022, and kickoff is less than 14 weeks away, yet Andy and Reggie have unfinished business from the 2021 season. When two ER doctors try to navigate the delta and omicron waves as part of their day/night/weekend/holiday jobs, sometimes even college football gets pushed to the back burner. Still, if you're looking for a way to fill the void of the offseason, l...

Send a text Michigan won their first Big Ten Championship since GWB's first term. Reggie isn't happy about it. Andy is delighted. There are some big games left to be played, though, with Michigan facing off against Georgia in the CFP on New Year's Eve, while Ohio State heads to Pasadena to play Utah on New Year's Day. Regardless of which team you root for, 2021 has been undenia...

Send a text The Game is in the books. Bragging rights have been restored in the state of Michigan, while Ohio State fans are reminded of the pain that accompanies losing The Game. With so much on the line, Michigan manhandled the Buckeyes. Andy is thrilled to taste victory for the first time in a decade, while Reggie is marginally coping with defeat at the hands of the Wolverines. The 2021 edition...

Send a text The past eleven weeks are now meaningless. The Game is all that matters. As has been true so many times in the past, everything is one the line Saturday. The winner wins the Big Ten East and heads to Indianapolis to play for the Big Ten Championship and a spot in the College Football Playoff. More importantly, one team will deny all of those things to the other. The stakes couldn'...

Send a text The penultimate regular season contests are upon us. Ohio State has a monstrous top 10 matchup with Michigan State, while Michigan tries to avoid looking ahead against Maryland. Andy and Reggie take a look back at the last two games for each team, but the anticipation of The Game on November 27th is impossible to ignore. Should both teams survive this weekend, The Game will once again...

Send a text Week 9 of the college football season saw OSU beat Penn State while Michigan fell to the Spartans of Michigan State. Andy and Reggie recap the games and look forward to Michigan's next two games against Indiana and at Penn State, while OSU ventures into Lincoln to face Nebraska then returns home to take on Purdue. The season is two-thirds over, but the biggest games are yet to com...

Send a text This weekend is the type of weekend we all live for as college football fans. We'll start the day with Michigan traveling to East Lansing for their in-state rivalry game against the Spartans of Michigan State, while Ohio State hosts the Nittany Lions of Penn State in a prime-time matchup. The stakes go up significantly this weekend, and seasons start to become defined as successfu...

Send a text Two more games are in the books and the off week is behind us for both the Wolverines and the Buckeyes. The next 6 weeks include the round robin in the Big Ten East that will determine who might play their 7th game in a row in Indianapolis. Before that starts, however, Michigan hosts Northwestern and Ohio State travels to Indiana to play a night game. Andy and Reggie welcome their good...

Send a text A third of the 2021 season is in the books. The meat of the Big Ten schedule lies ahead, when the men will be separated from the boys. Michigan goes on the road for the first time this season to play at Camp Randall, followed by a trip to Nebraska. Ohio State travels to New Jersey to play Rutgers, then tries to slow Maryland down in the 'Shoe. The Big Ten race is heating up. Andy...

Send a text Andy and Reggie both predicted the teams to be 2-0 and 1-1 after the first two weeks of the season, but they both reversed the teams. They break down the first two games for Michigan and Ohio State, which included Ohio State's first regular season loss in three years. Andy and Reggie preview weeks 3 and 4. The competition isn't as stiff, but there is always reason to be excit...

Send a text Michigan and Ohio State kick off their 2021 seasons in just a few days, and Andy and Reggie couldn't be more excited. We discuss the Buckeyes and Wolverines and make our predictions. As the pandemic rages on, we want a full, "normal" college football season as the distraction we all need right now. Whether you root for the Maize & Blue or the Scarlet & Gray, let&...

Send a text The 2020 college football season is in the books. Ohio State won the Big Ten, beat Clemson in the Sugar Bowl and lost in the NC game. Michigan signed Jim Harbaugh to an extension. The pandemic wreaked havoc on college football and everything else in society, but overall Andy and Reggie are glad the limited college football season was played. While we missed out on it in 2020, the count...

Send a text The Game, the entire reason for this podcast, thus the title "The Game", was canceled. For hardcore Buckeye and Wolverine fans, The Game is a day we look forward to all year. As Andy and Reggie discuss, The Game was not the only loss they experienced this season. Andy and Reggie discuss the Big Ten's failure, whether Michigan waved the white flag, and the eternal optimis...

Send a text Half of the 2020 Big Ten regular season is in the books. In week 5 Ohio State plays Indiana for the inside track to win the East while Michigan tries to stop the bleeding. Neither Reggie nor Andy thinks Covid is done wreaking havoc on the 2020 college football season, and implore all Buckeyes and Wolverines to line up once a safe, effective vaccine is available so we can end this night...

Send a text The first two games of the abbreviated 2020 Big Ten season are in the books. Michigan stands at 1-1 while OSU is 2-0. Andy and Reggie review the first two games and preview Michigan's games against Indiana and (maybe) Wisconsin as well as OSU's matchups with Rutgers and Maryland. With a pandemic and national unrest over a closely contested election dominating the news cycle,...

Send a text It's been a long wait, Michigan and Ohio State fans, but the Covid version of the 2020 Big Ten football season is upon us! Andy and Reggie discuss the upcoming season, preview the teams and the first two games in the context of the pandemic. Let's hope for a healthy season for all players, coaches and fans. 2020 has been a lousy year, and December 12th will deliver one more k...

Send a text The 2019 season is over. Andy and Reggie mourn their respective bowl losses while expressing schadenfreude over the other's failures in the postseason. It's what the rivalry is all about. We recap the season that was and express early optimism for 2020. After all, The Game is just over ten months away, when Ohio State and Michigan will once again settle it on the field on Nov...

Send a text The Game has come and gone. Andy and Reggie break it down and discuss the results and ramifications. Autumn will soon turn to winter, and the calendar will flip into 2020, with a shot at redemption for Michigan just 352 days away, and the Buckeyes trying to win a Big Ten Championship and secure a College Football Playoff spot this Saturday. As is the case every year, however, both team...