Police Deploy Pepper Spray To Break Up Post-Game College Football Brawl

A brawl erupted after the conclusion of the Michigan-Ohio State football game on Saturday.

The melee started after a Wolverine player planted their flag at midfield in the Ohio State stadium following Michigan’s 13-10 upset victory.

Police eventually used pepper spray to end the scuffle.

The incident left players and coaches from both teams bloodied and injured one officer.

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An on-field view of the Michigan flag plant and the altercation with Ohio State that followed pic.twitter.com/If9Ng7ecW0

— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) November 30, 2024

Per ESPN:

Ohio State University police said in a statement that “officers from multiple law enforcement agencies assisted in breaking up an on-field altercation. During the scuffle, multiple officers representing Ohio and Michigan deployed pepper spray.”

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They added that one officer was injured during the altercation and “transported for medical attention.”

Ohio State police said it will continue to investigate the incident.

Buckeyes coach Ryan Day later blamed Michigan for starting the melee by planting the flag.

“I don’t know all the details of it, but I know these guys are looking to put a flag on our field and our guys weren’t going to let that happen,” Day said. “I’ll find out exactly what happened. But this is our field and certainly we’re embarrassed of the fact that we lost the game, but there’s some prideful guys in this team that weren’t going to just let that happen.”

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If Ohio State doesn’t want Michigan to plant the flag, they should try beating them! @stoolpresidente pic.twitter.com/4igWOLjQgZ

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) November 30, 2024

“While the melee was going on between Michigan and Ohio State, Ryan Day looked on and two Buckeyes and a Wolverine huddled together to pray,” CBS Sports national college football reporter Brandon Marcello wrote.

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While the melee was going on between Michigan and Ohio State, Ryan Day looked on and two Buckeyes and a Wolverine huddled together to pray pic.twitter.com/Bz3DwV6Ua8

— Brandon Marcello (@bmarcello) December 1, 2024

From Sports Illustrated:

The better response to a humiliating loss and Michigan’s taunting would have been to simply keep your heads down and get off the field. But this was another example of a rivalry gone overboard.

It’s a football game, man. And it has run off the leash of perspective, into an unhealthy realm that it didn’t used to occupy. Yeah, there have been moments: Ohio State players tearing down the “Go Blue” banner in Michigan Stadium in the 1970s; Woody Hayes broke a sideline marker over his knee in 1973. But now we’ve reached a point where losing is literally intolerable.

John Cooper got 13 years as coach of the Buckeyes with a 2–10–1 record against Michigan. Harbaugh lost his first four against Ohio State as coach of the Wolverines, but got a chance to turn that around. Such patience seems unrealistic in the current toxic times.

Day is 66–10 at Ohio State, a ridiculous record, and yet it isn’t good enough to keep him from being booed off the field by the angriest non-NFL crowd I’ve ever heard. His kids had to listen to it. This is what Day signed up for as coach of the Buckeyes—and he’s paid phenomenally well, more than $10 million a year. Beating Michigan is part of the assignment—especially a 6–5, three-touchdown-underdog Michigan that is muddling through life after Harbaugh.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at 100 Percent Fed Up.

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