{"id":312577,"date":"2025-11-25T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312577\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:43:07","slug":"kirk-herbstreit-debates-if-ohio-state-would-rather-beat-michigan-or-win-another-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312577\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Herbstreit debates if Ohio State would rather beat Michigan or win another national championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ohio State Buckeyes<\/a> are preparing to travel North to Ann Arbor to take on the Michigan Wolverines<\/a> for the 2025 edition of The Game. There, they\u2019ll be looking to snap a four-game losing streak in the series on the way to the College Football Playoff<\/a>. <\/p>\n

At one point, not winning The Game could have cost Ohio State or Michigan a shot at a national championship. That wasn\u2019t the case a season ago, though, and the Buckeyes sprinted to a national championship after the loss. In fact, that was their last loss, and they appear primed for another massive CFP run.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, analysts Kirk Herbstreit and Joey Galloway broke down the Ohio State attitude toward the game on Nonstop. In particular, he emphasized that there are fans who would rather see a win over Michigan than another national championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a split decision,\u201d Kirk Herbstreit said<\/a>. \u201cI do, I think 75, 80 percent would take what happened last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

A year ago, Michigan won 13-10 in Columbus. That game ended emotionally, with a fight breaking out on the field. At the time, there was immense fan backlash against head coach Ryan Day<\/a>, who fell to 1-4 against the Wolverines. There was even some thought he was on the hot seat, until the national championship run. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think 25 percent would say, \u2018 I just want to beat Michigan,’\u201d Herbstreit said. \u201cWhat do you think the percentage is?\u201d<\/p>\n

Joey Galloway commented that a season ago, the national championship was more important. Now that Buckeyes fans have that, however, they\u2019ll likely be flipping back over and putting more emphasis on Ohio State to beat Michigan. That, to Kirk Herbstreit, is a matter of what era a fan comes from. <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, like I said, it depends on your generation. I think a lot of people, they\u2019re in chatrooms. They get their feelings hurt. They want to beat Michigan at all costs,\u201d Herbstreit said. \u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t matter what happens before that, game, what happens after that game, they just wanna be able to get on the chat thing and be able to have, \u2018We\u2019re better. We beat.\u2019 I think there\u2019s a lot of people that are into that, and I think there\u2019s kind of the newer fan that thinks, whether we win or lose this game, we\u2019ve still got to get ready for either the Big Ten Championship or the CFP. It\u2019s all about the CFP. I think that\u2019s what a lot of people learned last week.\u201d <\/p>\n

Kickoff is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. EST on Saturday. Regardless of who wins, what\u2019s more important for Herbstreit and fans outside the rivalry is that it turns out to be a good game. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care,\u201d Herbstreit said. \u201cFor me, I just wanna see a great game. We have, I think, there\u2019s snow in the forecast. Hopefully, it\u2019s gray, it\u2019s dark, it\u2019s cold. The uniforms are awesome on the field there. I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ohio State Buckeyes are preparing to travel North to Ann Arbor to take on the Michigan Wolverines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,125597,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-312577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-kirk-herbstreit","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}