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MGoPodcast 17.6: The Fickell-Franklin Wife Swap

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Football, Basketball, Sports:football, Sports, Hockey

4.7924 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 139 minutes

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2 hour and 18 minutes The Sponsors Thank you to Underground Printing for making this all possible. Rishi and Ryan have been our biggest supporters from the beginning. Check out their wide selection of officially licensed Michigan fan gear at their 3 store locations in Ann Arbor or learn about their custom apparel business at undergroundshirts.com. Our associate sponsors are: Peak Wealth Management, Matt Demorest - Realtor and Lender, Ann Arbor Elder Law, Michigan Law Grad, Human Element, Sharon's Heating & Air Conditioning, The Sklars Brothers, Champions Circle, Winewood Organics, Community Pest Solutions, Venue by 4M where record this, and Introducing this season: Radecki Oral Surgery, and Long Road Distillers. 1. Offense vs Wisconsin Starts at 1:00 Are Michigan fans turning beet red or was it just hot? This game looks better on rewatch and followed the preview fairly closely. Bryce Underwood took a leap forward in this game, he has the occasional accuracy issue and isn't testing the middle of the field, but he's starting to hit guys downfield. Andrew Marsh and Donaven McCulley also took a huge lea. This is encouraging considering Goodwin was barely targeted, Semaj has been having catching issues, and Frederick Moore is off the team. You can rotate most positions but not the wide receivers. Russel Bellamy has been getting unfairly judged for the receivers. Wisconsin has a very good rush defense and Michigan put up pretty good numbers. Underwood needs to get the ball out a little quicker. Sprague will grade out negatively but he generally does it well when he knows the right assignment. The offensive line is young, they need some time to get better. Lindsey plays off the screen game really well. Has Michigan gotten a holding call all year on defense? [The rest of the writeup and the player after THE JUMP]  2. Defense vs Wisconsin Starts at 39:33 10 points from the opposition but three came from a sad field goal. They barely got to 200 yards of offense until "kill the clock mode". Rod Moore being back instantly makes this defense much better. Don't rotate him and just keep him on the field all game? Zeke Berry is back from injury, he missed a tackle but was otherwise fine. This defense seems like they miss a lot of tackles but we're comparing it to the best defense in recent school history. Jimmy Rolder was in his element, one time he almost picked up a fullback and threw him. Michigan goes cover zero in a situation that makes no sense. Everyone in the stands keeps turning towards Seth when this happens. Brandyn Hillman is reckless which is helpful sometimes, sometimes it hurts you. Please don't be weird against USC. 3. Hot Takes, Game Theory, and Special Teams Starts at 1:05:20 Takes hotter than Michigan Stadium this Saturday. Michigan missed a 27 yard field goal, was it the hold? They did (just barely) block a punt and almost blocked a second one. Hollenbeck was blasting them in this game. What is up with Semaj's punt returns? Is he being told not to take any chances? Should you run a QB sneak on 4th and inches near your own red zone? Luke Fickell is Brady Hoke. They weren't trying to win the game in the 4th quarter, you can't have a six minute field goal drive in this situation. Seth is about to start charting an umpire's spatial awareness. 4. Around the Big Ten with Jamie Mac Starts at 1:34:02UCLA 42, Penn State 37UCLA has been awful all season but they looked like the #7 team in the country in Pasadena. James Franklin partially blamed the travel. Coming into this weekend, UCLA never led in any of their four games. In this game they never trailed. Tim Skipper has as many wins over top 10 teams as James Franklin. Penn State was a playoff team but now they have to beat Ohio State to have a chance, Was this the biggest Big Ten upset ever? Nebraska 38, Michigan State 27In most weeks this would be the funniest game of the week. Michigan State ran for 2.3 YPC and Chiles threw two interception into Nebraska chests.

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0:00.0

Good afternoon, and welcome to MGO Podcast.

0:26.3

Welcome to MGO Podcast 17.6.

0:29.6

Someone turned down the thermostat in Michigan.

0:30.5

It's October.

0:31.6

This is ridiculous. Yeah. Thank you. I'm going to You know what?

1:01.4

I'm detecting a sort of, I don't know, moodiness, anger, pissiness.

1:08.8

There's like a sort of an undercurrent in the fan base.

1:11.2

It's just kind of like, brah. Wait, are you saying the Michigan fans are upset? Well, hey. Isn't that what we're supposed to be? Well, no. There may be another reason. Their faces are beat red, by the way. Are they turning into beats? No, they were just in the sun. Well, that's, okay. For Fox

1:28.4

I knew Sunday for hours

1:30.2

I thought you were saying

1:31.2

something crazy that people were turning into beats all across Michigan Stadium. That's not true. It was just hot. We just looked like all the Wisconsin fan shirts. And I feel like everybody in the stadium is a little madder about this game than they otherwise would be because it was October and it was 85 degrees.

1:46.8

Right.

1:47.6

Maybe.

1:48.2

And people are a little exercise about it.

1:51.1

I got a little exercise during the game because during the game, everybody's going up to get water and liquids and stuff much more than a normal game.

2:00.2

And I'm like I gotta

2:01.3

stand up aren't you the middle of your row not anymore oh I my uncle was kind enough to

2:08.6

transfer a couple tickets to me so I'm no longer in the perfect one through six are you on the

2:13.2

end yeah I'm on the end so I get a lot of this now it's it's not I'm not gonna complain about my seats except in the way I'm on the end. So I get a lot of this now. It's not, I mean, I'm not going to complain about my seats, except in the way I'm doing it right now. But, you know, I just feel like, you know, I was coming from home to the game and I was like, and then I'm reviewing the game today. And I'm like, okay. It felt definitely better on the rewashed after rewashed. Right. And also, like, I wrote the preview, and I was like, you know what, this is going to be competitive for about a half, and then Michigan's just going to lean on them, and then they're going to fall over. Which is exactly what happened. Pretty close. So I was like, oh, right, I predicted this exact thing. I should read my own previews. I should, I don't know, should listen to this person who also happens to be me.

2:53.4

Turn yourself out. this exact thing. I should read my own previews. I should, I don't know, should listen to this person

2:50.9

who also happens to be me. Tune yourself out. Michigan 24, Wisconsin 10. I'm Brian Cook. I'm Seth Fisher, and now we've learned we've got to listen to Brian Cook. Well, I mean, I've got to listen. You don't have to listen to me, to be clear. I'm just saying I should. Well, you got us on that one. I'm David Nasternak. All right. The master of snacks. People have been calling me that. I'm like, I don't have any food for you. You got to start having snacks. I can't feed everybody. I have snacks for me. I mean, Seth talked about this. The great snack is yogurt and granola, a little parfait.

3:25.7

And honey.

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