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.

Alejandro Zinigas here with me, and this is our Michigan Northwestern preview.

We'll both be in Chicago. Michigan's first time playing in Chicago land since 2018, which is kind of crazy.

That's probably their longest drought in program history. I mean,

their first ever game was played in Chicago. But yeah, they're back in Chicago, taking on

Northwestern and Wrigley Field. We'll talk about the keys for the offense, keys for the

defense, other factors. We'll do some prop bet picks along the way, make our score prediction.

And Alejandro, last time Michigan played Northwestern, it was last year. They were coming off a buy week. I think the season looked a little bit more dire at that point. I believe they were five and five. They really needed the win to secure bull eligibility. Obviously, jobs were on the line. You know, there's a whole lot going on, and they came out and just smacked Northwestern. And it set the tone for they eventually went on to beat Ohio State and Alabama.

You know, this year, it seems like there's a lot of urgency, there's a lot of energy,

but at 7 and 2, they're in a better position.

And then Northwestern is in a better position.

They're better than they were last season.

And so really, I think this is an opportunity for Michigan to kind of show improvement.

I mean, obviously, you know, there's different ways they can win,

but to me, I think the biggest thing they need to show this weekend in terms of the scope of the season is

if they beat Northwestern the same way they beat Purdue, I think it's fair to be concerned about,

you know, what, what things will look like when they take on Ohio State. Because I think,

you know, when they played Purdue, they looked tired. They looked beat up. They kind of looked

like they were ready for a bye week, to be honest. So I, I, Hondra, you've been at the press conferences all week looking at the offensive side of things. What's the biggest thing you want to see from the Wolverines coming out of this by week? I think I speak for most Michigan adjacent people in that I just want to see if the passing game can take a step forward.

I mean, it's been a couple weeks at this point ever since that Washington game, that Bryce Underwood, I mean against Michigan State,

Bryce Underwood 86 passing yards against Purdue, 145 passing yards. I don't think, I think offensively,

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