Well, the Wolverines came to Columbus with everything in front of them.

Big Ten East championship, possible playoff position.

Those are all gone.

We'll break this game down and much more on our postgame edition of 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.

No, things didn't go our way.

Both sides played our hearts out tonight, and we'll just then get the win.

We're going to have a pretty good bowl game, so we've got to get focused on that.

Hopefully these young guys use his motivation and come back stronger next year.

Once again, here's John Jansen.

And with that, let's bring in Brian Bush. Yeah, John,

let's get right into this one. Your overall thoughts on a very tough game. You know, I mean,

you come into this game atop the Big Ten East in the driver's seat for whatever you want to happen,

whether it's in the Big Ten or the playoff picture. And it just, you know, there are some

days where they're just not your day. And Michigan just couldn't get anything going today. We really

couldn't find any rhythm. Anytime we did, like even at the beginning, at the end of the first half,

and we score two touchdowns in six seconds. And then we think we've got an opportunity to go

into halft time with a little

momentum and Ohio State was able to mount a drive. The defense had a good stand, but they still

got three points out of it. And it just seemed like any time in the second half when we would

make anything happen, Ohio State would respond even with a little bit more. And it just,

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