Not a great day for the Michigan Wolverines. Michigan State 27, 24 in the first game in Ann Arbor.

Brian Bush and I will get a chance to break it all down here on In the Trenches.

Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen. The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer

will take you inside the locker room with players and coaches.

It's going to be about character. And each person, each coach, each player, looking to add, to contribute, what more can they do?

Once again, here's John Jansen.

There's a lot to look at, a lot to learn from from this football team.

We're going to get a chance to talk to Coach Harbaugh, some of the players.

But first, I'm going to talk to Brian Bush.

Yeah, John, tough one to swallow here this afternoon.

To say it was unexpected based on what transpired last week would certainly be an understatement.

How did this happen?

Well, it certainly is unexpected, but it's,

you know, coming off of week one, we didn't necessarily know how good Minnesota was, so there was

no real gauge on what that victory meant. We also didn't necessarily know between Rutgers and

Michigan State what we were getting because Michigan State turned

the ball over seven times. None of us thought that they would do that again. However, we thought,

you know, you don't just fix a lot of those problems in one week. Mel Tucker, hats off to Mel Tucker,

and I'm tired of saying hats off or good job on the other sideline, but that's what happened.

They were able to fix their problems, and Michigan just never got a rhythm on offense.

They weren't able to stop them or get off the field defensively.

And in a nutshell, that's kind of, that's what we saw this afternoon.

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