And welcome back to the Wolverine podcast. This is John Borden. I'm here with Tom Crawford. You know him very well from his excellent work with Jack Ebling on Press Pass and from his own great videos on the Crawford Podcasting Network. Tom, welcome back.

Well, it's great to be back. It's great to have the Wolverines

5 and O. And the weather's beautiful outside. So, I mean, how can you beat that? The trifecta.

You got it. It is football weather. It's football excitement. There's plenty of it from the Wolverines,

the top five Wolverines, having passed the test that we talked about all summer long.

You know, we went back and forth about everything that was involved in the Iowa game.

I don't think Iowa was maybe team-wise up to standards that we anticipated because they've had some trouble with

their offense, obviously. But the fact of the matter was, this was the first time the Wolverines

had to go on the road. They met a probably better than expected opponent that first week in Maryland,

and that win's going to hold up pretty well, I think.

Then they go on the road and do what they need to do.

Your general impressions of that Iowa win.

Well, I'm doubling down on your credibility in the Maryland win,

you know, as a quality win.

That was indeed.

And that will prove that way. I'm starting

to really think that. But yeah, finally going on the road, John, we talked about it,

I'll go, Ohio say it and gone on the road yet. So, you know, five straight games, but it was a

quality win, a work, kind of a workman-like win., 13 nothing leads are precarious leads, you know,

20 to seven leads are precarious or two scores from being down.

But they hung top and it got a little dicey as you knew it would be.

It always is at Kinnick, no matter how, you know, comfy a 20 nothing lead looks at one time.

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