Welcome back to another edition of the Ballas and Skeen Show. This is the Wolverine.com Michigan

Football Podcast with me. I'm Chris Ballas with me, Doug Skeen, Michigan's five-time Big Ten champion.

All Big Ten dude. Let's go down the credentials, played for Bill's Parcells, started for the New England Patriots.

Drew Bledso was his quarterback. This guy knows a little bit something about football, a lot about offensive line. Skeen, let's first talk, though, about why you skimped out on the Michigan-Washington game to go down and see Texas A&M in Arkansas when I had a credential for you in the press box. Where are your loyalties these days? And can you explain, as Les Miles would say, to the people out there, what the hell you were thinking?

Well, Paul Dallas, I did go to high school in Texas.

All right.

A&M recruited you, right?

A&M recruited me hard.

Yeah.

And the Longhorns did too.

And if I were not going to end up in the big town, I would have gone to Texas A&M.

Wow.

But fortunately for me, things worked out the way they did.

But anyways, a couple of my high school buddies are Texas A&M grads. And one of my other high school buddies is a really, really big Arkansas Razorback fan.

So we decided to do a road trip, a little high school

reunion road trip and go to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to see the Aggies take on the Razorbacks.

And wow, Ballas, SEC football, and it was defense optional in the SEC on Saturday.

That was crazy. What a game. I was thinking all the whole time.

Skeen is there watching this live. That was unbelievable.

I've never seen anything like it. There was over a thousand yards of total offense between both teams and just up and down the field.

And I did not expect that. And my one buddy, my one buddy Eric there was

beside himself with his Aggie defense struggling to get to just stop the wind. I guess they

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