No one has to tell Ohio State coach Ryan Day his team is riding a 4-year losing streak in The Game, the greatest rivalry in sports.

But with his current team sitting 11-0 and No.1 in the College Football Playoff rankings, he has stressed the process that has gotten the Buckeyes this far as they seek to break the streak.

Plus, author John U. Bacon and Tim hook up for their annual week of The Game conversation. Bacon not only is a noted historian in terms of Michigan football, but he also has a book that’s sitting No.7 on the New York Times bestseller list, The Gales Of November, on the tragic sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior.