DETROIT (AP) -Marshall and Ohio spent nearly a century fighting over a riverboat bell.
On Saturday, the teams will meet with something new at stake – the championship of the Pizza Bowl.
The schools, located 82 miles apart, played 52 times – the most Marshall has played any other school – between 1905 and 2004. When Marshall played in the Mid-American Conference from 1997-2004, the schools’ annual game was called “The Battle for the Bell,” with the trophy symbolizing the Ohio River separating Ohio and West Virginia.
While the teams haven’t played since the Thundering Herd bolted to Conference USA in 2005, the bowl matchup comes as they were already scheduled to resume their rivalry with a six-year deal that starts in 2010.
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