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The Wolverine Podcast

Chris Balas and Doug Skene post-Penn State

The Wolverine Podcast

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Michigan Wolverines, Will Johnson, News, Davis Warren, Football, Sports News, Donovan Edwards, Michigan Football, Mason Graham, Wolverines, Michigan Podcast, Big Ten, Sports, Alex Orji, Sherrone Moore

4.2529 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Chris Balas and former Michigan All-Big Ten lineman Doug Skene break down U-M's big win at Penn State.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another edition of the Wolverine.com podcast.

0:08.6

This is our video version, Wolverine TV.

0:11.1

With me, Doug Skeen, I hear at On3, the Wolverine.com on three.

0:14.5

Our special's still going, guys.

0:16.1

We had to extend it because we had such an unbelievable demand for our product.

0:21.4

Thousands of people skiing have come over.

0:24.4

I'm not kidding.

0:25.9

Literally thousands.

0:27.2

Yeah.

0:27.7

99% of them said that you were the reason.

0:30.8

You're in Africa.

0:31.8

So we decided to bring you back for another session here.

0:34.9

And it would be appropriate that my content is worth a dollar. A dollar. $0.99. That's a dollar. You know, love the fat. Is it a fat head in the background, that helmet? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can see it there. I got that, you know, all here in the basement. And this is where I watch the games on the big screen. So. Yep. most iconic helmet in football, and they played another one on Saturday.

0:57.3

Not a pretty game, man.

0:58.5

That first quarter, I'm thinking, holy crap, they're setting this game back 100 years.

1:05.1

But you know what?

1:06.0

To their credit, they weathered the storm.

1:08.2

They beat a team that they were better than.

1:30.5

And really, I'm not saying it was smoking mirrors because I really thought that Penn State actually ran the ball a little bit too well on this Michigan team better than I expected. It wasn't great, but their back was getting four and a half yards of carry on average. So, but overall, really gutting it out in that environment and that place got loud skiing. To me, that's something they haven't done in the past and I was pretty impressed.

1:37.6

Yet another checkbox in the things that we have not seen out of Michigan football in the last few years.

1:42.1

This game reminded me a lot of the Wisconsin game and at Nebraska.

1:46.0

The opponents felt similar. The environment looked and felt similar. Of course, they weren't the same, but similar. Penn State is a very difficult

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