Hardesty: Next year Ohio State can’t call it an aberration – Michigan is back

Hardesty: Next year Ohio State can’t call it an aberration – Michigan is back

- Tom Hardesty

I’m sitting here ready to take my turn with the mortician’s blade on the cold, lifeless body of Ohio State’s 45-23 debacle of a defeat to Michigan Nov. 26 at Ohio Stadium.

I’m poised over the table, fully prepared to perform my own postmortem on the corpse of the Buckeyes’ most humiliating loss to the hated Wolverines in Columbus in my 54 years on the planet — and perhaps ever.

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