Hello everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things Michigan

Football, Basketball, and Recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is here with me,

and we are back after a bye weekend. Hopefully everybody enjoyed their weekend off of Michigan football.

Plenty of basketball content to read on the site. We'll end up, but we'll eventually do a

basketball preview podcast, but this one

previewing Michigan, Michigan State in football. Big game, probably not as big as this game has

been the first four years of Jim Harbaugh's tenure, but still a big game regardless. Another,

another chance, as we've talked about a couple times in this podcast for them to, you know,

even if they don't contend for titles this season, you know, the rivalry games are effectively

mini titles that you get to carry with you throughout the year. Paul Bunyan's trophy actually

does technically make it a trophy game. Regardless, we're going to talk three, three major

questions. If it's four

slightly less major questions, that's fine too. We have three main questions, then we have our

over-unders, and then our predictions at the end of this match-ups. We can get started. Steve,

let's go back to Monday's press conference, and I don't really care much for the rivalry war of the words.

I think we've talked about it on this podcast about how it's just, it's so mental.

I mean, you know, it's just, it's like people like get all up in their heads about they

aren't talking enough smack or they're talking too much smack or things like that.

But I'm curious, you know, we heard Ambrie Thomas

kind of talk about how he, he feels Michigan State views this game as a Super Bowl. I personally,

I think that's probably accurate, given how their season is gone, how, you know, we heard

Ben Bredesen talk about how they never really, they never really go down quietly. I mean,

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