Michigan comes to college park in the final tune-up before the game, and they come away with a 45-20 win.

We're going to get a chance to break this down and more in just a few moments on In the Trenches.

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It's been taking its time, man.

I think these past 11 weeks just continue to get better and better each and every single day,

and especially those Wednesday, Thursday practices, where you really emphasize third down and stuff. I think we all know, like, if you want to stay alive in this league and stay alive in the playoff hopes and stuff, you've got to be good on third down, and we've just been trying to get better each and every single day on that. This is in the trenches, presented by Meyer again here's john jansen well welcome back

who's a 4520 win i'm going to bring in my partner mr brian bush well john let's start with

quite the story bryson kuzdahl a hundred yards rushing incredible story he was double digits

on the depth chart no one knew his name among the mich fan base a while back. Now they're learning it and boy, you want to talk about expectation is the position. There you go. Yeah, I mean, we say it all the time, right? The expectations for the position, not the player. He stepped up and did what a Michigan running back supposed to do. There were times where it was, you know, those yards were hard to come by.

He churned him out. He did a great job of protecting the football. And when it came time to show off, and, you know, what was it, a 19-yard touchdown run that he had that was well blocked. But when he hit that line of scrimmage, I mean, he was going 100 miles an hour. and you saw the speed that Sharon Moore talked about earlier in the week.

We saw a lot of things from Michael

Kaepana, I'm sorry, from Bryce and Cousdahl, and it just was, it was a lot of fun to watch him,

have that opportunity, and take advantage of it.

Bryce Underwood doesn't have the gaudiest overall stats, but keep in mind, he only completed two passes after halftime.

He was almost at 200 yards in the first half alone.

What did you see from Michigan's true freshman quarterback?

Good decisions.

And you heard, you know, coach talk about the one throw that got away from him, and very fortunate that wasn't an interception.

But for the most part part it was really good

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