It's a Big Ten game. It's a trophy game.

It's the state championship.

It's a rivalry game.

Bragging rights in the state that you live in, state that you go to school in.

It was the last time we lost a Big Ten game.

How much more can we pile on one game? That's what it means to us.

You have a big-time rivalry game and it's at night.

I think they'll have that place jumping and they'll be ready to go so we better bring it to sweat tears you know we're going to

leave it all out there uh in east lancin saturday it's a very competitive game everybody has their feelings

about it we know what it is going into this week but at the same time we just have to prepare like

any other week as long as we prepare to our level prepare to our standard and you know nothing else

matters in reality it's really important because it's our next game you want to win this one you have to win this one and we're going to try our best to do it go in there do what we have to do and leave with paul we're closing in on another michigan game day let's get you set for saturday's matchup with our keys to the game edition of In the Trenches.

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Now, here's John Jansen.

Well, Michigan's going to hit the road again, and the first opportunity it has to attain one of the four

goals that Jim Harbaugh has set out to attain and this team, and that is the rivalry game.

That is Michigan State on the road at East Lansing.

We know what happened a couple of years ago.

It's time to write a wrong, and we'll tell you how Michigan can do that.

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