Vice President-elect JD Vance counseled his Ohio State Buckeyes after their shocking loss to rival Michigan Saturday. The web was not so variety in response.
Vance posted on X, saying the Buckeyes performed like “champions” and that he is “pleased with them.”
“To the OSU seniors on that workforce: I do know it sucks to lose 4 to Michigan, however on your complete faculty profession you guys have performed yourselves like champions. I converse for practically all of us followers once I say: we’re pleased with you!” Vance wrote.
The Buckeyes blew the sport as 21-point favorites, dropping to their prime rival for the fourth straight time. Michigan’s 2024 workforce is the worst this system has fielded in years, coming into the sport with a 6-5 document.
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Davis Warren (16) of the Michigan Wolverines carries the ball in opposition to the Ohio State Buckeyes in the course of the fourth quarter at Ohio Stadium Nov. 30, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. (Jason Mowry/Getty Images)
Entering the sport, Ohio State was ranked No. 2 with a document of 10-2 and was vying for a spot within the Big 10 championship sport and a College Football Playoff berth. Now each of these targets are in query for coach Ryan Day and his workforce.
The Buckeyes have been additionally concerned in a brawl with Michigan gamers after the sport.
Vance was the recipient of loads of photographs for his pledged loyalty to the workforce in response.
“Ohio State sucks and so do you!” one person wrote.
Another person stated Vance’s put up prompted him to rethink his approval of Vance as Trump’s VP choose.
“First time I’ve disagreed with JD in a [minute], possibly Trump ought to have went a distinct route for the VP position!” the person wrote.
Players scrum at midfield after Saturday’s sport between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Michigan Wolverines. (Imagn)
Another person questioned Vance praising gamers who would begin a postgame brawl.
“‘Conducted yourselves like champions’ didn’t they only get right into a brawl that resulted in Michigan gamers being pepper sprayed as a result of they have been sore losers?” the person wrote.
Several law enforcement officers have been additionally concerned in breaking apart the struggle. Videos shared on social media appeared to point out gamers being pepper sprayed, and each Michigan and Ohio State gamers seemed to be in ache from it.
In the rapid aftermath of the struggle, Michigan working again Kalel Mullings instructed FOX Sports in an on-field interview the incident was “unhealthy for the game.”
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“It was such an amazing sport. You hate to see stuff like that occur after the sport. Bad for the game, unhealthy for college football. But, on the finish of the sport, they gotta learn to lose, man. You cannot be combating and stuff simply since you misplaced a sport.”
Vance beforehand revealed he had instructed Trump his loyalty to the Buckeyes might have an effect on Trump’s possibilities of profitable the important thing battleground state of Michigan.
“When he first requested me to be a VP, I used to be like, ‘Well, you already know, hopefully we do not lose Michigan by like 900 votes, as a result of you are going to remorse it. ‘Cause it is most likely only a thousand p—ed-off Wolverine followers who would not vote for a Buckeye,” Vance stated throughout an look on OutKick’s “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.”
“But I believe that almost all Michiganders are going to have the ability to put sports activities rivalries apart and put the nation first, which is what, after all, all of us imagine is crucial factor.”
The Democratic National Committee tried to use Vance’s connection to Ohio State with a marketing campaign technique in Michigan in early September. The DNC flew a airplane over a Michigan soccer sport Sept. 7 with a banner that stated, “J.D. Vance [loves] Ohio State [plus] Project 2025.”
Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, introduces Former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, throughout a rally at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center July 27, 2024, in St Cloud, Minn. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
The Trump-Vance ticket ended up simply carrying Michigan.
Vance additionally recommended in that interview that Trump and Vance would attend Saturday’s sport in the event that they received the election.
“Well, let’s go to the Ohio State-Michigan sport, assuming we win, as a result of I guess I can get some fairly candy tickets because the VP-elect, and we’ll be in a celebratory temper,” Vance stated on OutKick. “And, look, it is, it will be a giant sport this 12 months. I believe it will decide final seeding within the College Football Playoff.
“I imply, now each groups may really make the playoff. I do know Michigan’s, you already know, kind of folks aren’t placing them as excessive this 12 months, however you by no means know, as a result of it is at all times a great program. So, we’ll see, guys. I’m feeling superb in regards to the Buckeyes. I’m feeling superb in regards to the Bengals.”
Neither Trump nor Vance attended Saturday’s Ohio State-Michigan sport.
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