Growing up in an Ohio State household, Michigan was quite often referred to as TSUN (That School Up North) or TTUN (That Team Up North) in deference to Woody Hayes’ legendary hatred of the Wolverines. Even in this day and age, and coming off a period in which the Wolverines’ head coach referred to OSU as “Ohio,” the name games continue.
On one of the trophies commemorating OSU’s 2014 national championship, which sits in the newly-remodeled Hayes Athletic Center, the dates, school names and scores of the Buckeyes’ run to the title are engraved. The line for Michigan, though, comes with a twist -- and a shortened one from Hayes’ TTUN.
From this morning, there's a TUN, not Michigan, on display of Ohio State's 2014 National Championship trophy http://t.co/gNN5wRgqly
— Doug Lesmerises (@DougLesmerises) September 17, 2015
So, there’s that. Can’t even give them the extra “T” on the hardware.
The next meeting in the OSU-TUN grudge match, incidentally, will come Nov. 28 in Ann Arbor. With Jim Harbaugh making his coaching debut in The Game -- he, of course, experienced it as a Wolverine quarterback -- this edition of the rivalry is expected to be one of the most anticipated in the last decade or so.
Harbaugh, for his part, prefers to refer to the rivals as Ohio State. Well, for now he does, at least.
