ANN ARBOR, Mich. Everyone calls this place the Big House, but everybody whos been for a game knows its almost never all that loud here. Its crowded, sure 110,000 of your closest friends (and some enemies) but the noise mostly evaporates from the bowled bleacher seats into the air.

Not on this day. Not against these Buckeyes. Not with so much history and so much failure riding on it all. It got loud, and it stayed loud.

By the time the Michigan players jumped and hugged and celebrated as the students poured over the wall to meet them midfield, Michigan Stadium pulsed at a decibel level previously unreached. Aidan Hutchinson, who cemented his place in Wolverines history on a day he sacked Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud three times, said hed never heard it this loud before.

But then again, Saturday was a day for firsts. Jim Harbaugh got his first win over Ohio State, a 42-27 victory that punched Michigans first-ever ticket to the Big Ten championship game. And perhaps the strangest twist of all was the manner in which the Wolverines beat the Buckeyes for the first time in nine tries.

It was domination, Harbaugh said.

Michigan flipped the script. It beat Ohio State the way it has so often been beaten during the Harbaugh era: by dominating both lines of scrimmage, with help from the nations best pass rusher (or two) and a rushing attack that picked up chunks at will. The Wolverines did not press. They did not commit dumb penalties. The game did not get away from them.

Michigan averaged 7.2 yards per carry to Ohio States 2.1.

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