This article fails as an April fools joke because it isn't believable for even a second.  And if they were going for tongue-in-cheek humor... well they tried.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2016/04/01/1-osu-forced-to-abandon-scarlet-and-gray.html

EDIT: Also if you are bored here is a collection of other April 1 shenanigans from across the internet

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/1/11340654/april-fools-day-jokes-pranks-online-2016-good-bad