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EPISODE · Oct 21, 2025 · 26 MIN

Heart of the Rivalry: Falcons Fall, Rockets Rise, Buckeyes and Wolverines no surprise

from Heart of the Rivalry · host David Briggs, Phil Kaplan

Heart of the Rivalry is a Blade-produced YouTube series and podcast available on all major platforms that covers the heart of college football through the sport’s own treasured programs of Ohio State, Michigan, Toledo, and Bowling Green. The weekly show is led by The Blade’s sports columnist, David Briggs, with co-host/producer Phil Kaplan. In this episode, Dave and Phil give live reports from the weekend’s games, as respectively they each attended UT’s bare-bleacher win and BGSU’s standing room-spectacle loss.   Briggs correctly predicted Ohio State pulling punches, but doesn’t pull any when talking about the Michigan vs. Michigan St. rivalry missing its punch this year.  Phil wasn’t punched, but puts the over/under for times he was reprimanded by field security at 2.5, and for mentions of Pudge the Cat at even odds with comparable Eddie George mentions.  All that and more from Heart of the Rivalry, the only show to cover exclusively the rivalry programs of Bowling Green and Toledo, as well as Michigan and Ohio State.

Heart of the Rivalry is a Blade-produced YouTube series and podcast available on all major platforms that covers the heart of college football through the sport’s own treasured programs of Ohio State, Michigan, Toledo, and Bowling Green. The weekly show is led by The Blade’s sports columnist, David Briggs, with co-host/producer Phil Kaplan. In this episode, Dave and Phil give live reports from the weekend’s games, as respectively they each attended UT’s bare-bleacher win and BGSU’s standing room-spectacle loss.   Briggs correctly predicted Ohio State pulling punches, but doesn’t pull any when talking about the Michigan vs. Michigan St. rivalry missing its punch this year.  Phil wasn’t punched, but puts the over/under for times he was reprimanded by field security at 2.5, and for mentions of Pudge the Cat at even odds with comparable Eddie George mentions.  All that and more from Heart of the Rivalry, the only show to cover exclusively the rivalry programs of Bowling Green and Toledo, as well as Michigan and Ohio State.

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