October 10, 1936. That is the precise date when the Ohio State marching band first performed and thus invented their beloved Script Ohio formation. But there's a problem with at part of that. Feel free to inform your friends from Columbus of this fact: Rest assured that the folklore is true, it was indeed the Michigan Marching Band that first performed the ‘Script Ohio’ - four years earlier. Yes, the MMB literally spelled it out for the Ohio Stadium crowd on Michigan's trip to Columbus on October 15, 1932. Feel free to troll your friends from Columbus because of this fact: Rest assured that the folklore is true, it was indeed the Michigan Marching Band that first performed the ‘Script Ohio’ - four years earlier. Yes, the MMB literally spelled it out for the Ohio Stadium crowd on Michigan's trip to Columbus on October 15, 1932.
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Moved to Tears | Professor and the Pundit – S3 Ep2
Take a breath. Getting out of Happy Valley with an emphatic win was massive. The Prof and Pundit run it all down for you: the Penn State game, the TRO sitch, the significance for both programs, a B1G and National roundup and more.
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Dear Tony, Pound Sand | Professor and the Pundit – S3 Ep1
Good golly, what a mess. The boys are back in the studio for the Season 3 premiere discussing the sign-stealing business afoot. Santa Ono tells the B1G to chill out, we relieve tailgate and IM football glory, and we spin around the rest of the college pigskin world.
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It’s Not a Lie if You Believe it | Professor and the Pundit – S2 Ep12
As the world turns...the Prof and Pundit went long-form on this one, a verbal manifesto if you will. We go full-on Stalions, discuss the Manifesto, the Pundit tells us when 1+1 = 3, the potential consequences and much more! Thank you over 30,000 plays across Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Please follow!
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Why Michigan Left the Big Ten Conference in 1908 | The Drama and Aftermath
Spearheaded by the request of Michigan’s president James B. Angell, officials from the schools representing the Western Conference (U-M, Chicago, Minnesota, Iowa, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana) met in Chicago in January 1906 to discuss major reforms. Their target? Michigan football and its coach Fielding H. Yost. Here's how it played out.
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The Files are IN the Computer?! | Professor and the Pundit – S2 Ep11
A boys rejoice after the historic smackdown of the Spartans, and then punch the Elephant in the room: the sign-stealing imbroglio.
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Bob Bergeron’s Kick – 40 Years Later!
Deadlocked 13-13 with Iowa on the afternoon of October 22, 1983 and just twelve ticks remaining, Michigan sent a walk-on kicker on the field to win the game. At that moment the Homecoming crowd of nearly 105,000 certainly squirmed, knowing the recent woes of the Wolverine kicking game over the past several years—particularly in clutch situations. Thankfully kicker Bob Bergeron was not thinking about history or even the significance of that moment. His mindset was focused on doing his job—something he’d done 1000s of times before. The rest is history.
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How Fritz Spotted The Sleeper (1946)
Amazing but true, Michigan head coach Fritz Crisler actually had 2 men seated above the stadium press box for an important job. One used binoculars to try to identify a "sleeper" - an opponent's 11th offensive player hiding near the sideline. The other guy? A bugle player. His job was to blast away on the horn if the spotter found a sleeper.
