By: AP via newsnet5.com -

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Adding to the pressure and importance of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry is that the teams have always played the last game of the season.

It’s final. There’s no disputing the winner. And the winner has bragging rights and the loser awful memories for an entire year.
Well, maybe not anymore.

Starting in 2011, “The Game” will still be the final one on the schedule. But the teams will be in opposite divisions of a 12-team Big Ten, with a title game the following week.

Finality? It’s possible that the 108th showdown could be followed by yet another meeting of divisional champion Michigan and Ohio State in just seven days.

“I’m not sure that when we line up next year for the Ohio State-Michigan game there will be any less excitement or anything will be taken away from it,” said Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, a sterling 8-1 against Michigan. “Maybe some of those byproducts will be added, but I don’t know how you could lose anything from this game. I just can’t conceive of that.”

Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon played for the……

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