Michigan comes to East Lansing in playoff mode, and they come away with another win.

31 to 20 over Michigan State.

You're going to hear from Jason Avant, Doug Karsh, myself, as well as Rob Joyce.

So we'll get to all of that in just a few moments right here on In the Trenches.

Welcome to the official podcast of Michigan football.

In the Trenches with John Jansen, presented by Meyer, presenting sponsor of the 2025 Michigan football season and proud

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national champion covers the Wolverines better than anyone. It's a big game.

It's the winner of the state.

We got a ton of Michigan guys on our team.

And just going out there and playing for those guys and the seniors,

making it memorable for them and not let them go out with a loss.

And every time I step out there, I'm just playing for my boys out there.

This is in the trenches, presented by My Meyer. Once again, here's John Jansen. At this time, I want to bring in my partner, Rob Joyce. All three sides of the ball. You can point tonight to a couple of really good plays on offense, and then defense and special teams, and then a couple of plays that will drive the coaches crazy what was your takeaways from all of this tonight well i mean it was they did everything they could to keep

michigan state in the game as long as possible until they pulled away at the very end and even

then right it was uh you know they just never seemed to to put them away until jordan marshall did

so there's there's clearly a lot of things to clean up, but the whole goal is to win the game.

And, I mean, it comes down again, rush yards, right?

It is 276 for Michigan, 115 for Michigan State.

Pass yards, the discrepancy goes heavily in favor of Michigan State with 190 and Michigan only with 86.

So clearly there's some things that they've got to clean up in the passing game.

But, you know, when you look at just the penalties, and I should have asked Coach more about this as well,

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