And welcome back to the Wolverine podcast. I'm John Borton here tonight with the one and only Tom Crawford.

You know him from press pass on Sunday nights with Jack Ebling. You know him from his own Crawford

podcasting network. And you see him here every week on the Wolverine podcast, Tom Crawford.

Welcome to a big week for Michigan football.

I cannot wait here, what, December 27th, counting it down Saturday night, a Saturday night,

you know, like Saturday college football, right?

It's on Saturday.

Absolutely.

You know, eight o'clock kick.

It's just like one of those late games, you know, when Michigan played a night game, a couple of them in Michigan Stadium. So, super excited. I hope everybody on the Wolverine.com, all our listeners out there who bleed maize and Blue, I hope they had a great Christmas, happy holidays, whatever they celebrate, and let's count it down. Let's get into this thing.

Let's get into it because the Wolverines rolled into Arizona into Phoenix today and obviously

started speaking immediately about what is before them. What jumped out to you among the early statements

made by the Wolverines out there? I mean, a lot of it was, you know, we're glad to be here.

We're happy to be facing, you know, a great team and all that. But was there anything from

just them getting out there that

stood out to you, Tom Crawford? Well, I, you know, I think there's a level of confidence that

maybe they didn't have last year. I'm, you know, this is overstating it. So, you know, sometimes

thinking, yeah, you have uh just glad to be here

mentality and maybe that could have been equated last year hey they got the playoffs and you know

and see what see what happens against georgia i think i think this has more of a business trip

mentality yet yet it's it's a it's a focus it's business aspect to it but there's they're brimming with

competence this team looks like very competent and also likable when they interact up with

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