I can tell you i've lived down here for over 7 years, and that's not true. OSU fans are ridiculed heavily down here, and Ky is primarily in Northern Ky. There's an entire anti columbus attitude in cincy as the state govt is headquartered there, and the southern ohio population feels that part of the state north is getting more benefits than the southern portion, which includes the osu budget vs other state schools, research grants, etc. It even extends to the high school playoffs in fball and bball which are almost exclusively in cbus or northern ohio in spite of the fact that southern ohio teams win most of them. Southern Ohio is not accommodating to OSU or Cleveland for that matter, for numerous reasons.