Thanks to the Big Ten's new schedule, Ohio State's greatest turtle-themed rivalry trophy is back.
Not the actual turtle, it died years ago due to an acute case of"being neglected by drunken frat bozos", but thanks to the Big Ten getting rid of divisions, Ohio State's greatest football rivalry with a team from Champaign, Illinois has been miraculously revived.The Buckeyes and the Fighting Illini have played over 100 times in their history, and in terms of familiarity only Michigan has played Ohio State more often.
This is a terrible idea in large part because turtles don't wear their shells with suspenders like in Looney Tunes, it's an actual part of their bodies and digging a knife into their shells to write"ILLINOSE SUX" is now generally considered animal abuse. Plus, while being passed around from frat to frat-adjacent organizations, Illibuck mostly inhabited bathtubs and rain barrels, which is also not great for a live animal.
I say relatively because Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1990, and had played Ohio State every year since 1993. Penn State was a national powerhouse with a legendary coach, and in the 90's the split between the two teams was fairly even in terms of wins and losses. Illinois, on the other hand, had fallen off the football map; from 1995 through 1998, the Buckeyes outscored the Illini by a score of 171-9.
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