In the Trenches 568 - Texas Recap
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
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4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Wolverines closed 2025 with a loss to Texas in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl on Wednesday in Orlando. We begin our final postgame episode of the season with the radio crew breaking down the game. Then, around the 14-minute mark, we go into the locker room, as Jon interviews interim Head Coach Biff Poggi, and Jason talks with six players in this order: Blake Frazier, Cole Sullivan, Deakon Tonielli, Elijah Dotson, Kendrick Bell, and Rayshaun Benny. We close the episode with an extended conversation that took place during the game broadcast with new Head Coach Kyle Whittingham around the 32-minute mark.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Michigan comes down here to the Citrus Bowl to face the Texas longhorns. |
| 0:04.5 | Take a loss, but there's a lot to be excited about in the years to come. |
| 0:08.7 | We'll continue to break it down here on In the Trenches. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to the official podcast of Michigan football. |
| 0:15.6 | In the Trenches with John Jansen, presented by Meyer, presenting sponsor of the 2025 Michigan football season |
| 0:22.1 | and proud supporter of hundreds of local sports teams across the Midwest. |
| 0:26.5 | The former two-time captain and national champion covers the Wolverines better than anyone. |
| 0:31.5 | They've gone through something that no football team has ever had to go through, |
| 0:35.8 | and I was proud of how they responded to it. They did not |
| 0:39.7 | wallow in any kind of self-pity. They got to work right away with a very high level of intensity. |
| 0:47.6 | And actually, in a strange way, John, has pulled them closer together. |
| 0:52.9 | This is In the Tren trenches, presented by Meyer. |
| 0:56.5 | Once again, here's John Jansen. |
| 0:58.8 | At this time, I want to bring in my partner, Brian Bush. |
| 1:01.5 | John Jansen, let's talk about the start to this ball game. |
| 1:04.4 | Michigan certainly played well for a while there. |
| 1:07.1 | Before we get into what happened late, |
| 1:08.9 | what was working well for Michigan early? |
| 1:11.7 | Well, I thought they did a nice job of mixing up the pass and the run um i talked about it during the broadcast in regards to |
| 1:17.0 | um you know the new play caller you're out there coach casula and i thought he did a tremendous job of |
| 1:24.2 | being able to read the texas defense get them going sideline to sideline, and being |
| 1:29.3 | able to attack the middle of the defense. We saw some shots of the tight end. Even the ones that |
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