Behind Enemy Lines - Michigan vs. Michigan State preview
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The first rivalry game of the 2023 Michigan football season has arrived! The Wolverines travel to East Lansing to face a reeling Michigan State team, and Stephen Brooks provides the inside scoop from enemy territory. The Spartans have lost four in a row and just changed starting quarterbacks. Who are the players to know for MSU, and what would need to happen to keep Saturday night's game close?
Then, Patrick Murphy previews Ohio State vs. Penn State, one of the games that could decide the Big Ten.
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| 0:29.7 | Hello everybody and welcome to behind enemy lines. I'm your host Alejandro Suniga. The Michigan |
| 0:34.6 | football team heads on the road to East Lansing this weekend as they face |
| 0:39.1 | Michigan State. Big in-state rivalry on Saturday night up at Spartan Stadium, and we are here to talk about it. |
| 0:46.5 | The Wolverines are 7-0 ranked number two in the country, and they're facing a reeling Michigan State program. |
| 0:52.9 | Not only have the Spartans gone through a host of off-the-field issues, culminating, of course, |
| 0:58.4 | with the firing of their head coach, Mel Tucker, but they've also gone from 2-0 to 2-4, |
| 1:05.5 | losing 4 straight, including a heartbreaking, if you're a Michigan State fan, |
| 1:10.7 | lost to Rutgers in a game that |
| 1:12.5 | the Spartans were really in control. And similarly, two weeks prior to that, were winning |
| 1:18.9 | in Iowa City against Iowa before self-inflicted mistakes and certainly some big plays from the |
| 1:25.6 | Hawkeyes flipped that game on its head. |
| 1:28.4 | So on paper, this is a game that Michigan should have the upper hand in, but it is a rivalry. |
| 1:36.6 | It is a game for the state championship. |
| 1:39.5 | And let's call it like it is. |
| 1:41.2 | This is a game that both programs have had circled. Certainly |
| 1:45.1 | Michigan State is always going to circle this game, but the Wolverines in particular after what |
| 1:50.6 | happened last year in in Ann Arbor and what happened two years ago, the last time Michigan |
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