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The Michigan Insider

Michigan wins Big Ten title, advances to College Football Playoff

The Michigan Insider

247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football

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4.6855 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss the significance of Michigan's win over Iowa to capture the 2021 Big Ten championship, along with our initial thoughts on the College Football Playoff field, which includes the Wolverines as the 2-seed.

We open by looking at the Wolverines' win, which clinched their first Big Ten title since 2004. We discuss Michigan's magical run, what it says about the program, the Wolverines' potential staying power as a top-five team, along with any remaining weaknesses as Michigan heads into the playoff.

In the second half of the episode, we take an initial look at the four-team field. We discuss whether the committee got it right, along with our initial thoughts on No. 3 Georgia and how they match up against the Wolverines.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.8

I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. Lots to talk about in this episode. We'll try to work quickly through all of our topics. We will be discussing Michigan's Big Ten championship victory and kind of the main takeaways, what it means.

0:21.6

What's next?

0:22.1

Obviously, we'll talk about what's next too in that they made the college football

0:25.3

playoff.

0:25.8

We'll take a peek at the field as well as early peak at the matchup against Georgia.

0:32.5

They'll be, we'll probably end up doing two podcasts previewing Georgia specifically

0:37.3

and kind of our impressions

0:39.2

there. Lots of content as well. If this doesn't cover everything you want, lots of written

0:44.9

content over at the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.247 Sports.com. And be sure we now have

0:51.1

our recruiting podcasts and our basketball podcasts are in full swing this one

0:55.7

this one will switch to basketball on occasion but but you know for as long as the football

1:02.2

team is the the main topic of discussion we'll be discussing football which is what we'll do

1:09.0

right now steve a huge huge huge victory for the Wolverines on

1:13.6

Saturday. They beat Iowa, 42 to 3, really the first team to blow out Iowa in any capacity

1:20.9

since the 2015 Rose Bowl, you know, when they played Stanford.

1:31.0

And if you look throughout their history, they're not quite at Wisconsin's level,

1:34.9

but they're in a similar state where they just, they really don't get blown out.

1:43.2

It was, it was the first time in 34 games that Iowa had given up more than 27 points in a game.

1:45.7

And it was the first time since that Rose Bowl, they'd given up more than 41 points in a game. And it was the first time since that Rosebolt,

1:47.8

they'd given up more than 41 points in a game.

1:50.9

Very much a demolition.

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