Considering they are in the same conference, Minnesota and Ohio State playing each other in a Big Ten football game is a rarity.
The teams haven't met since 2010, and have played only 50 times since 1921.
During the years Woody Hayes coached Ohio State (1951-78) and Murray Warmath coached the Gophers (1954-71) they played only five times. They didn't meet at all until Warmath was in his 11th season (1965).
Because their teams didn't play much, Hayes and Warmath because friends, and started sharing scouting reports. This was the days before teams exchanged game films, so assistant coaches would scout. On more than one occasion, the scouting reports were different, and I believe a couple of assistant coaches got fired on account of that.
I was standing outside of his Warmath's office more than once and heard him yell at a scout for not having the same information that Hayes had reported on the telephone.
