Originally Posted by
JeffHCross
FWIW, when I was enrolled at Ohio State, I had fellow students claiming to me after the basketball championship that we lost to Florida (our third loss to Florida in major sports in 14 months) that Florida was going to become our new rival. I guess because Tressel had so dominated Michigan that they forgot why we have that rivalry in the first place. So dhook is far from alone in his naivety.
But there is no way, short of one team ending football or the near equivalent, that Ohio State ever has a bigger rival than Michigan. Michigan State may be our closest competition for the division, and they might do that for a decade or two (hypothetical, not predictive), and the rival would still be Michigan.