Okay, welcome back to another edition of the Wolverine.com podcast.

This is our TV version.

My name is Chris Ballas with me, Doug Skeen, Michigan's former L-Big Ten offensive linemen, unshaven.

Looking all surly.

It's Thanksgiving weekend, Alice.

Hey, no, we're not judging you.

What I am saying is, man, you look relaxed and you look happy.

And this is the kind of team.

This is what you expect, I think.

You've expected all along the kind of effort when Michigan plays Ohio State.

You want to see them play their best game with that passion and that hunger and skiing.

I saw it in the pregame.

I predicted that they would lose.

And I'll tell you when I started to wonder if this team really had a shot. There were a couple things that I heard at the end of the week. We'll talk about that in a minute. But when I saw that team on the field in warm-ups and they were going through it and how jacked up they were and how confident

they looked. To me, that was different than past years and one of my colleagues said, oh, it kind of

looks like Ohio State's going through the motions or whatever. And I said, yeah, that's wishful

thinking. You can't tell anything in warmups. But there was something palpable. I'm telling you

that you could feel it and you saw it in the way they played

on Saturday. Well, Saturday and the previous Saturday and the previous Saturday in this

throughout this whole season. I'll say it. I'm going to say it one last time, Bales,

I am so happy to be wrong about my prediction on this team, this season, this game,

and what you're describing in that pregame vibe that you felt that you saw in this game was so gratifying to watch because we

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