Welcome on into the wolverine.com podcast. Clayton Safie here with Anthony Broom and Chris Ballas,

ahead of Michigan's game against Yukon, third cupcake in a row. Before we get into Big Ten play,

we get serious with Maryland next week. If you're watching on YouTube, make sure to drop a like,

smash that like button if you think Michigan is going to win this weekend and let's get this

video to 500 likes appreciate everybody listening on the audio feed as well let's let's break it

down and then get to what we predict for this game as well uh Yukon coming in one and two they got

losses to Utah State and Syracuse last week got

hammered at home. The one win over FCS Central Connecticut. Haven't had a winning season since

2010. A little bit of life maybe with Jim Moore coming in, but this is a program that's won five

games since 2018, including that game a couple weeks ago. So this is, you know, this is quite the rebuild.

And then it was interesting listening to Jim Mora this week, too.

And he said he was very frustrated with this.

They have an NCAA low of 105 guys on their roster.

For some reason, Yukon caps them at 105.

It's, you know, so he is not happy. They got some injuries. They got some depth issues. Obviously, he's a former head coach in the NFL and UCLA. So, I mean, it was a good hire, in my opinion, when they got him this offseason, but it's an uphill climb. What do you guys' initial thoughts kind of on this matchup? Chris, we were talking before.

They're probably the best team Michigan's played, which isn't saying a whole lot, but it's still something. It's not saying anything if we're being honest. But you know what? It's a semblance of a football team, right? And you look at Hawaii, those guys didn't want to be there. They didn't have a whole lot of talent. They had a good kicker and that was about it.

So when you look at them, you knew that that was going to be a blowout, name your score type of game. And Jim Harbaugh took the foot off the gas pedal at halftime. I think it's going to be similar in the respect that when they get up big, I don't think it's going to be as quick, number one, because I think they're going to play hard under Jim Mora.

This guy has good schemes.

He's a pretty good football coach.

He just doesn't have the horses.

And number two, I think they're going to play hard under Jim Mora. This guy has good schemes. He's a pretty good football coach. He just doesn't have the horses. And number two, I think the running game is decent. Now, didn't they play, they played Utah State pretty tough for a while. Yeah, Utah State was ranked at the time and they ran for like 250 yards. Right. So this is where I think they're going to try to test them. And no, I don't think

they're going to give Michigan a game. Obviously, 46 points is a lot, though. I don't think Michigan's going to cover that. We'll see what happens. But I think you've got a team there that actually wants to be there that will show up, not just to get to $1.9 million and go back to stores, but they're going to actually play some football, so or at least try.

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