Hello, my friends. It is that week now. Michigan and Ohio State will play on Saturday.

We are, of course, here to talk about Michigan's ninth win of the season, 45-20 win at Maryland to set up a potential.

And I'll go as far as to say a surefire. You win next week against Ohio State.

You are in the college football playoff.

I'm very comfortable saying that.

But we're going to talk about what led to that.

We're going to talk about this team finding a way to keep all of its goals still ahead of them over these last five weeks.

And tonight, I mean, Ryan so often, of course, here with Ryan Van Buren,

former Michigan defensive lineman as he joins us every week here on our postgame show.

Ryan, every year this week comes around and the word trap game gets thrown around.

And of course, you know, it's a natural

look-ahead spot, but Michigan's had years where like this year, you blow out Maryland. Last

year you blew out Northwestern. The two best teams you've probably ever had in program history,

2022, 2023, they have nail biters the week before Ohio State.

But you usually go into this week with three goals.

And it's win, stay as healthy as you can, and win by as much as you can to get these guys out of the game.

And, you know, there were a few guys banged up in this game.

It looks like you're going to be without Max Bredison.

We'll talk about that in a little bit.

But, you know, and again, we've been waiting for a mature, complete four-quarter response.

And the closest we had gotten to that was maybe the end of that Washington game.

But from the get-go, offense, defense, Michigan hammered these guys.

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