Greetings, everyone. It is Monday, October 13th here on Wolverine.com. Monday night show, Anthony Broom here with Clayton Safie and Chris Ballas, as we are every Monday night at 6 p.m. throughout the year.

Fellas, a lot to talk about today. This is a jam-packed itinerary. Michigan basketball AP poll is out.

They're ranked number seven.

We can probably hit on that super fast.

Or however long, Clayton wants to talk about it because he's the basketball guy.

I'm a basketball hater according to the message board.

Hey, I love basketball.

Come on.

We all do.

Exhibition game this week.

So season kind of gets going in earnest there.

Obviously, Michigan's game at USC from Saturday.

We'll wrap up some final thoughts on that.

And take a look ahead to what more so the next six games as opposed to just what's on the line this Saturday.

And what we need to see to feel that there is tangibly something to build on in the Shrew

Moore era.

So a lot to get to.

And like we do every week, we will take your questions at the end of the show.

An example of that, like a $4.99 super chat from Daniel Schutz, who says, USC ran the big

seven or eight times versus Illinois and had six and seven protecting the passer. Were we not forewarned? Love you guys. So I don't know if anyone wants to address that right off the bat. What's you mean by the big? I'm not 100% sure. But if you pay the money, you move to the front of the line and we'll get you on the show here. Seven or eight times. If Daniel could clarify in the chat below, then we could. Maybe Max protected or something. Either that or extra offense alignment, but I didn't see any of that. Regardless, it's, you know what, were they not forewarned? They see what's on film. They study the film, obviously, and sometimes teams come out with something different. And in fact, Wisconsin did. And the different fronts and stuff like that, and Wink had to settle them down after the first drive and said, hey, you know what? They're going to, maybe it looks different. In that case, what you do, if you're not prepared for it, you knock them back. You take the offensive lineman, and you push them back into the backfield and blow up to play anyway. So I don't know what you mean by, were we not forewarned, but I do think two tight ends pulling guards, fullback and gap scheme blocking. If it was on film, they saw it and they would have been prepared for it. They just didn't play it well. And in fact, Daniel, what they said was it came down to blocking, tackling, and poor angles.

And tackling and poor angles.

And I think that's really a big part of it.

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