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The Wolverine Podcast

Postgame reactions: Michigan leans on run game, defense for fourth win in a row over Sparty

The Wolverine Podcast

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Michigan Wolverines, Will Johnson, News, Davis Warren, Football, Sports News, Donovan Edwards, Michigan Football, Mason Graham, Wolverines, Michigan Podcast, Big Ten, Sports, Alex Orji, Sherrone Moore

4.2529 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

TheWolverine.com's Anthony Broome and former Michigan defensive lineman Ryan Van Bergen discuss the team's 31-20 rivalry win over MSU, its fourth-straight in the series.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings, everyone. Anthony Broom here from Highotop Spartan Stadium along with my co-host, Ryan Van Bogan.

0:07.5

We are doing tonight's live reaction show virtually here on the Wolverine.com, and it is a rivalry edition of the Wolverine postgame show.

0:16.2

Michigan comes into East Lansing and wins 312 over the Spartans.

0:21.0

It's their fourth straight win in the series.

0:23.4

A lot to get to.

0:24.4

We will talk takeaways, offense, defense, as we always do.

0:28.9

We'll hand out some game balls.

0:30.3

We'll take your questions at the end of the show.

0:32.0

And wrap it up here on a late night edition of our post game.

0:40.1

In totality, you look at this game,

0:47.4

and it's a 10th, seven game at the half. Michigan roars out to a 10-0 lead, and then everything comes to a screeching home. Offense gets stagnant. Bryce Underwood, I think, probably plays

0:52.2

his worst game of the year in this one.

1:01.4

Defense gives up a 49-yard run on the road for the second road game in a row that gives Michigan State some momentum.

1:04.3

It's a three-point game at the half, and Michigan comes out to the locker room.

1:13.1

And outside of some garbage time points at the end, run game got going, you pivoted, you did what you had to do to win, and defense outside of really one drive and then one miscommunication where Jerry Hill thought he had

1:20.5

safety help over the top, pretty darn good performance overall from the defense.

1:25.7

Offense did what it had to do to win, Ryan.

1:29.5

It's a win in the Big Ten against a rival opponent,

1:33.2

and you can never knock that.

1:36.8

That's going to be something that is not something that is easily achieved by a lot of teams.

1:43.6

That being said, I feel like that was,

1:47.9

we've talked a lot about on this podcast about this team being young

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