Michigan football: The importance of TCU game in perspective

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Michigan football will play TCU for a chance at a national title if it can find a way to get a victory. From there, it will get the winner of the game between Ohio State and Georgia. So where does this one rank in terms of importance in program history? Each Tuesday night at 5:30 p.m. ET, John Borton of The Wolverine and a rotating cast of guests will discuss the biggest storylines from the weekend and take your questions live on our YouTube channel. Borton is joined this week by Tom Crawford and former Michigan star (and recent Hall of Famer) Mark Messner.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Wolverine podcast. I'm John Borton, and we're here on a night that I have
0:05.7	really been anticipating. You know Tom Crawford. You know him well. He's around, and he is a member of
0:14.1	that crew on Press Pass Sunday nights on Fox 47, and he has his own podcasting network. And we welcome in tonight one of the greatest Michigan football players of all time.
0:27.7	And that would be one Mark Messner, the newest inductee into the college football Hall of Fame.
0:36.1	I want to welcome you both.
0:38.2	And Mark, I really appreciate you being with us tonight.
0:42.1	My pleasure. I'm honored to be on.
0:44.8	Well, I want to just jump right into this tonight
0:48.1	because we've got a ton of football to talk about.
0:52.2	We get the privilege of Martin Messner's input into all of this.
0:59.0	Michigan playing out in Arizona. Mark Messner and the Wolverines had one of their finest moments
1:04.6	out in Arizona in that Fiesta Bowl. And Tom Crawford and I very well remember. And we're going to be talking about that game and a whole bunch of things, but I want to start out with Michigan TCU coming up. And I look at this. This is a huge game, obviously, for Michigan. One game, one win away from the national championship game. And to me,
1:30.7	this has the biggest implications nationally for Michigan of a game since that square off against
1:40.0	Washington State in 1997. When it was for all the marbles. We thought it was for all the marbles.
1:47.1	Coaches and AP, we know what happened there, but it was Michigan's first national championship
1:54.0	in 50 years. But I want to throw this at you guys. I'll start with you, Mark. Can you remember
1:59.3	the last time that Michigan had this big of, I guess,
2:04.6	national title implications on a game that they were playing it? Well, I think for sure, it's,
2:10.4	the stage is set for Michigan and getting there and having the dance. I think the matchup with TCU is
2:19.9	fabulous and I'm really counting on the fact that TCU's last minute heroics are burned up and
2:26.3	gone. But, you know, I think the stage is set for us to get to where we need to be, but the biggest game is still
2:35.7	TCU. And, you know, we're in control of our own destiny. And I just think that it's going to be
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