Your Best Memories of Ohio State Games?

Was able to attend the Desmond Howard "hello Heisman", Charles Woodson "Rose" and the 100th edition of "The Game".  All victories.  Great memories.  I hope we can get back to that level soon... 

As a kid, watching Harbaugh drop that bomb to Kolesar to clinch the game. It was a magical moment for this then 13 year old. How the stadium erupted!

Video here (thanks Wolverine Historian!)

I must say, Harbaugh really gave it all for this program. I really wish it had somehow turned out differently.

Has to be 2020, when unsung Dan Villari making his first-ever start shredded the NFL-bound Buckeye secondary for 347 yards and 4 TDs  (oh, wait, that's from a parallel universe...)

I'm not sure I've attended any win in person aside from 2011 -- which was indeed glorious.  But for some reaon my absolute favorite, etched-in-my-brain The Game memory is not Woodson, Howard, or Biakabatuka, but Harbaugh-to-Kolesar in 1985.  Big House perfection, right there.

2003... I was at that game.  Little did I know that outside of the 2011 win, it is the last meaningful win against osu.

I was finally able to attend my first Michigan vs. OSU last year.  I have gone to multiple games a year since the late 90's, but somehow 2019 was my first experience with attending.  

The most memorable game as a fan would have been the 2006 game.  Spent the weekend with my father in law and went to a bar in Sylvania, OH, so it was a pretty mixed crowd.  No asshole fans on either side at the bar, so it was just the game being so memorable.  

My first fleeting memories of football were the early 1970's games with Denny Franklin.  I can barely remeber  a few of those plays, mostly options (because they were so ubiquitous in Bo's early offenses), but I'll hold on to, and cherish, those momentary flashes.

The only OSU game I ever attended was 1989, a 28-18 win that was otherwise unremarkable in the series.  It did give Schembechler his first ever back-to-back BT Championship, though.  But what became the big story is what we learned about the game some time later - it was Bo's last BT game, his last against OSU, his last at the Big House.  He retired after the 1990 Rose Bowl.

It was starting to look grim in the second half, until Todd Plate made that interception.  That's when air filled the stadium again, and acceptance of the pending victory started becoming a reality.  Rushing the field afterward was a thrill!

None. I’m only 27. Shit that’s not that young. Why don’t I have any good memories?

Section 3. Row 32.  Seat 17.  11/22/1997 

Watching Woodson run down the sideline on the punt return.  No Michigan football memory will ever top that.

woody's swing at Charlie Bauman.....  it was epic

1999 was my only game in person. OSU was horrible that year. Drove up from Toledo with my friend, a Michigan fan and two other OSU fans. Scalped 4 tickets in a row at face value. Sneaked a bota bag of Firewater into the game and proceeded to get so drunk I couldn't stand at halftime. Michigan rallied to win in the 4th. Left the game and was blocked in where we parked near the car wash and drug store. Decided to go bowling somewhere nearby. More alcohol was consumed and a good time was had.

my freshman year, 1976, a bunch of us went down to Columbus and watched UM beat them 22-0. I believe OSU was undefeated going into the game. Rob Lytle tore them up. I had no voice for a couple days after. I was also at the 1997 game. Two of the best! 

'95 or '96. Went to the game alone, most of my friends had graduated. Sat next to some girls from Northwestern who had gotten tickets because this game would help determine NW's fate, if I remember right. OSU was going to murder us... except we held Eddie George and Biakabutuka ran for like 300  yards. The girls went nuts with glee. It was awesome to watch people with Northwestern shirts belting out the Victors. 

1995, Biakabatuka game. Enough said. 

The only Game Ive seen in person was 2013. Sitting about 20 rows up in the corner where Gallon caught a TD pass. Such a great atmosphere and a surprisingly close game. If Borges had switched plays on the last 2pt course conversion after OSUs time out...

1997 - This was my 5th year senior year. Not sure how it's done now, but then they gave out student season tickets based on earned UM-Ann Arbor credit hours coming into the year. You could apply for tickets as an individual or as a group of as many as you want. But the rub was that the person in your group with the least amount of credit hours defined your seating location. Several of us 5th years in our cirlce of friends had quite a few credit hours. I think around 10 of us applied for tickets together. We ended up getting tickets in section 24, row 9 which was around the 35 yard line. That section hasn't been part of the student section for several years now. We had ridiculous seats for the 1997 season.

The ushers used to just visually check your ticket every time you walked into that section. So if you wanted to leave and come back in you needed to have your ticket with you. So we would have someone walk out with handful of section 24 tickets and give them to more friends that had tickets for other sections (sections 25+). So eventually we would have 15-20 of us trying to fit into 10 spots, we'd have to stand sideways on the bleachers to fit.

Leading up to The Game the Michigan Daily had articles to warn the students that you would get arrested if you stormed the field after the game. My friends and I sort of rolled our eyes at this. 

My only big memory during the game was when Woodson took the PR back to the house. We were going so crazy jumping up and down that we ended up being a big pile of bodies. After the game we were some of the first ones to drop down onto the field. As I hit the field between the Michigan bench and north endzone I recall having a cop standing right in front of me trying to keep me from getting past him. I juked to my left then my right and ran right around him, 1st down! 

Next thing I know, much like the OP, I am on the field celebrating, jumping up and down with all the players. I was also right next to Griese, Woodson, etc. In fact either the Free Press or Detroit News, or both, came out with a VCR tape highlighting the 1997 season and there is about a 10 second spot of the video that shows the players celebrating together and you can see my tall dork ass right in the mix. I also managed to scoop up a 9-iron sized divot of the field grass and put it into my coat pocket. I still have that piece of turf sealed in a stolen Mitch's beer mug at my parents' house.

Those were the days.....

2011. It is the only win over OSU I have ever witnessed during my fandom. I was in the 2nd grade when we beat them in 2003 and in pre-school in 2000.

I've only been a fan since 2013 so I don't have good memories.

1990 somewhere in Saudi Arabia..... listening to the game on armed forces radio with three buddies who were cheering for the good guys because they were buddies and two heathens from ohio...

we won 16-13, good times.

(to be honest, we couldn't get the game, so we were listening to AFN catching updates while we played euchre)   

I am 27 years old, and have been to every Michigan OSU game at the Big House since I was a little kid.  Most of the memories start with a ton of excitement driving up from Cleveland, listening to Bob Ufer with my dad, talking about how this is the year... only to be let down continually by 3:30 PM for the drive home.

#1-Biakabatuka running wild.

#2-Cooper going for 4th and 1 from his own 35 with a minute to play.  We hold and kick the FG to win.

#3-Seeing that loud mouth David Boston laid up by Marcus Ray and the subsequent Sports Illustrated Cover.

#4-Woodson and Desmond

A high and low together:

Celebrating in the streets after the 1997 game.  The crowd moved all of the way to out in front of the President's house.  Then some drunkard climbed to the very top of the tree on the bird weight branches and fell like Plinko to the pavement.  Horrifying.  I hope he lived.  Never heard another thing about it.

Runner up: Screaming at the Buckeye guy following 2011 game and giving him the bird as I jumped down to the turf.  We were both idiots. Glorious.

Waking up that morning after a week of feeling that pit in your stomach and knowing you were going to see something awesome that day and not knowing who was going to make the big play for either team to turn the game.  Literal legends born in front of your eyes.  Hearing the constant buzz of the crowds and just taking it all in.

Haven't felt that way in almost 20 fucking years.

I'm dating myself here, but I graduated in 1993 and my 4 seasons there (89-92) we never lost to OSU.  We were 3-0-1 during that time with the 13-13 tie in '92.  "92 was such a weird year in that we had 3 ties and then went on to beat Washington in the Rose Bowl.  Desmond's Heisman pose was my junior year in '91 and that was probably my favorite game.    

1995 and 1997 are very close.  Tim B. outplaying Eddie George in a big upset was fantastic.  It was my last OSU game as a student.  1997 had so much on the line and Michigan came through.  We also rushed the field after, which was great.

As a kid growing up in the 90s, I didn't start paying attention to Michigan football until 1994, but for some reason I didn't see the '94 OSU game. So, I'm happy to say that my first OSU memory was the awesome '95 game when Biakabatuka ran for 300+ yards and we upset #1 OSU. It was so awesome to see them do the same thing to them again in 1996. Basically, the first several years of me watching Michigan football was us owning the OSU/Mich rivalry. I expected a win in that game every year. Now it's come to the point where I just wanna see us win the game at least once a in a 10 year span... lol

Lmao. I don't have any good OSU memories.

I was about 10.  So it may have been 1986.  Went with my dad to Ann Arbor and we froze our asses off.  Chris Spielman dominated and I don’t think the outcome went to the good guys.  But it is one of the best memories of childhood.  

Back in my day, we beat OSU many times. I’ll go back to yelling at clouds.

Winning