After decades and bending and breaking every rule in the college football world, Ohio State football fans are forever delusional. Ohio State fans know that they pay their best players and have for many years. They assume that everyone does this and it is fine - Ohio State just does it better than everyone else. Ohio State accepts that being put on probation every 10-12 years is also part of life in big time college football. This mindset causes them to project onto Michigan, their own paradigm. They assume that Michigan is just as corrupt as Ohio State.