ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Thirty final thoughts from Ohio State’s 56-27 rout of Michigan for the beautiful 30-yard touchdown pass Justin Fields threw to Garrett Wilson after returning to the game following his injury scare.



1. Urban Meyer killed the rivalry. Before you quickly scroll down to the comments section and type in “Jim Tressel went 9-1,” just hang in there for a second. Yes, Tressel set the table. But when Meyer took over, he changed everything. He took what Tressel built to the next level. He hired a better strength coach, he created a better infrastructure and he used of all of it to recruit like this program never has recruited. Meyer took a great program and turned it into one of college football’s untouchables. Now there’s a gap between Michigan and Ohio State that’s too big to overcome unless something drastic changes.



2. Every single season, everyone says this rivalry is special, that anything can happen any time...