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Outside it was cold and gray and hostile, exactly as these Michigan-Ohio State games are supposed to be. Outside there were eyes overflowing with tears and a field overflowing with fans and a scoreboard that read Ohio State 30, Michigan 27, which didn't even begin to tell the whole tale of what had just transpired. Later, as Michigan players and staffers were solemnly grabbing boxes of Chick-fil-A and heading to the bus as Ohio State fans, separated by a wrought iron fence, shouted at them and heckled them and sang that they didn't give “a damn about the whole state of Michigan.”